Demand Heterogeneity and Technology Evolution: Implications for Product and Process Innovation

By Ron Adner, Daniel A. Levinthal. Management Sciences, 2001

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Subfields: Management Science and Operations Research, Strategy and Management

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Disruption, disintegration and the dissipation of differentiability (2002, methodology): “Competition during this era therefore focuses predominantly on product functionality: designing and producing higher-performing products is a fundamental mechanism by which companies strive to get ahead of each other (Christensen, 1996, 1997; Adner and Levinthal, 2001; Adner and Zemsky, 2001).”
Insights and New Directions from Demand-Side Approaches to Technology Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Strategic Management Research (2012, methodology): “For instance, Adner and Levinthal (2001) used computer simulation to reveal a new stage in the technology life cycle, characterized by increasing performance at a stable price, which had largely been ignored by traditional approaches.”
Developing new innovation models: Shifts in the innovation landscapes in emerging economies and implications for global R&D management (2009, background): “The “dominant design” paradigm based on the work of Utterback and Abernathy (1975) (see Adner and Levinthal, 2001 for a brief review) asserts that product innovation has greater importance in the industry's competitive dynamics during the early stage of the development.”
Growing through copying: the negative consequences of innovation on franchise network growth (2008, background): “Indeed, Adner and Levinthal (2001) have suggested that while the entrepreneur is critical, an understanding of the environment in which the innovation takes place also”
Innovation and the evolution of industries (2006, background): “ Adner and Levinthal (2001) model a coevolutionay process in which there is a demand life cycle: early on product innovation increases performance, but then (to the extent to which some performance thresholds are met) process innovation takes over.”
Old technology responses to new technology threats: demand heterogeneity and technology retreats (2010, background): “In this regard, the superiority of one offer over another is determined by a given customer’s willingness to pay for its bundle of attributes, which in turn is determined by that customer’s preference ordering and budget constraints (e.g. Adner and Levinthal, 2001; Adner, 2002).”
A model of cultural differences and international alliance performance (2004, background): “By contrast, technology development processes are typically driven by pressures from markets (Clark, 1987; Balmer and Sharp, 1993; Adner and Levinthal, 2001), and begin with ideas of what is”
When Firms are Desperate to Grow via Acquisition: The Effect of Growth Patterns and Acquisition Experience on Acquisition Premiums (2011, background): “They will become extremely mindful of their dire situation and dramatically increase their focus on the 30/ASQ, March 2011 growth problem they are facing (Ocasio, 1997; Adner and Levinthal, 2001).”
Crowdfunding: Tapping the Right Crowd (2014, background): “For example, Adner and Levinthal (2001) offer a demand-based explanation for technological changes in consumer products and, thus, technology life cycles, such that more “technologically satisfied” consumers (i.”
Are Exporters More Likely to Introduce Product Innovations (2012, neutral): “, 2007; Adner and Levinthal, 2001).(35) Then, theoretically, both technology push and demand pull factors might explain the higher innovativeness of exporters. In our empirical specifications we are controlling for many covariates that are likely to mediate the effect of exporting on innovation in t”
Demand, innovation, and the dynamics of market structure: The role of experimental users and diverse preferences (2007, neutral): “In particular, Shy (1996), Dalle (1997), Adner and Levinthal (2001), Adner (2003) and Windrum and Birchenhall (2005) focus attention on how (alternative structures of) heterogeneity in consumers preferences influence the conditions at which a new technology can survive and eventually become…”
Developing Theory Through Simulation Methods (2007, neutral): “This approach enables a broad-brush validation of the simulation results (Adner & Levinthal, 2001).”
Toward a Systematic Framework for Research on Dominant Designs, Technological Innovations, and Industrial Change (2006, neutral): “Overcoming conceptual difficulies concerning the definition of a dominant design in omplex technologies and the empirical verification of he existence of dominant designs also appears to be precondition for addressing the alternative accounts ffered to explain changes in market structures by such ch”
Technology Push and Demand Pull Perspectives in Innovation Studies: Current Findings and Future Research Directions (2012, background): “…(1992) 0.74 Geels (2004) 0.83 Gatignon et al. (2002)2 0.73 Garud and Karnoe (2003) 0.82 Arora and Gambardella (1994)3 0.70 Kemp et al. (1998) 0.81 Adner and Levinthal (2001) 0.69 Malerba (2002)1 0.69 Garud and Rappa (1994)4 0.66 Burke (2002) −0.60 Klein and Sorra (1996) 0.65 Meuter et al.…”
The Market Evolution and Sales Takeoff of Product Innovations (2002, result): “We note that this explanation is consistent with findings in the economics and technology literature that firm competition in the early stages of new market growth focuses on continual product improvement (e.g., Shapiro 1986; Thomson 1986; Utterback 1994; Klepper 1997; Adner and Levinthal 2001).”