Technological discontinuities and the challenge for incumbent firms: destruction, disruption or creative accumulation?

By Anna Bergek, Christian Berggren, Thomas Magnusson, M. Hobday. 2013

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Management of Technology and Innovation, Strategy and Management

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The business model dilemma of technology shifts (2014, background): “While some firms in mature industries have successfully managed this transformation (cf. Bergek et al., 2013), research has demonstrated many examples of how incumbent firms encounter severe difficulties when facing radical technology change (Foster, 1986; Utterback, 1994; Tushman and O'Reilly,…”
Inside the high-tech black box: A critique of technology entrepreneurship policy (2014, background): “A much more likely source of rapidly growing firms is large, existing incumbent firms which also serve as major source of technological innovation within economies (Bergek et al., 2013).”
A Systematic Review of the Literature on Digital Transformation: Insights and Implications for Strategy and Organizational Change (2020, background): “Here, creative accumulation theory (Bergek et al., 2013) seems very promising as it allows revolutionary and evolutionary technology consequences to be explained, and thereby reconciles thoughts from both the episodic and the continuous perspectives.”
Guidance for transport planning and policymaking in the face of an uncertain future (2016, background): “Incumbent firms have, instead, found greater promise in hybrid-electric power-trains that can more readily offer key performance advantages (Bergek et al., 2013).”
Transition pathways revisited: Established firms as multi-level actors in the heavy vehicle industry (2015, background): “Therefore, firms developing new integral architectures in these industries need sustained efforts in dynamic integration (Bergek et al., 2013).”
The enactment of socio-technical transition pathways: A reformulated typology and a comparative multi-level analysis of the German and UK low-carbon electricity transitions (1990–2014) (2016, background): “These reformulated pathways go beyond traditional dichotomies and provide a more nuanced analytical apparatus to”
The impact of environmental policy instruments on innovation: A review of energy and automotive industry studies (2014, methodology): “typologies tend to be either competence-based or market-based (Bergek et al., 2013; Macher and Richman, 2004). In this paper, we use the well-known, competence-based Henderson and Clark (1990) typology, which is particularly relevant for analysing”