Schumpeter's ghost: Is hypercompetition making the best of times shorter?

By Robert R. Wiggins, Timothy W. Ruefli. 2005

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Dynamic Capabilities: A Review of Past Research and an Agenda for the Future (2010, background): “Recent research shows that the average period for which firms are able to sustain competitive advantage has decreased over time (Wiggins & Ruefli, 2005), suggesting that in hypercompetitive or high-velocity environments firms find it harder to achieve long-term competitive advantage.”
Best-Practice Recommendations for Defining, Identifying, and Handling Outliers (2013, background): “First, Wiggins and Ruefli (2005) identified firms that were interesting outliers because they lost their superior economic performance.”
Value from gestalt: how sequences of competitive actions create advantage for firms in nascent markets (2010, background): “…have experienced ‘a hypercompetitive shift’ characterized by a sharp increase in competitive activity, greater volatility in industry profitability, and higher rates of turnover in market share leadership (Ferrier et al., 1999; Thomas, 1996; Thomas and D’Aveni, 2010; Wiggins and Ruefli, 2005).”
Generic strategies and firm performance in SMEs: a longitudinal study of Austrian SMEs (2010, background): “1998; Wiggins and Ruefli 2005). In contrast, Hughes and Morgan (2007) hypothe-”
A Review of Approaches to Empirical Research on the Resource-Based View of the Firm† (2007, background): “Finally, some scholars (e.g., Wiggins & Ruefli, 2002, 2005) have adopted Schumpeterian (1939, 1942) and hypercompetition (D’Aveni, 1994) views to explain the persistence (or lack thereof) of sustainable competitive advantage among firms.”
Research Commentary - Seeking the Configurations of Digital Ecodynamics: It Takes Three to Tango (2010, background): “Concurrently, the environment is becoming increasingly turbulent (Wiggins and Ruefli, 2005) to what some called hyper-turbulence (D " Aveni 1994); organizations have developed more powerful repertoires of dynamic capabilities to cope with turbulence; and IT systems have multiplied and become…”
Innovation capabilities and performance: are they truly linked in SMEs? (2019, background): “Several researchers, scholars and professionals of business and management sciences such as Wiggins & Ruefli (2005), Kunc & Bhandari (2011) and Singh et al. (2013) have considered important to analyse and develop, in a more detailed form, the different capabilities that enterprises have in order to…”
Human resource practices and innovation in the hotel industry: The mediating role of human capital (2018, background): “For decades, Schumpeter’s theories were mentioned only occasionally in studies on business behaviour (Wiggins and Ruefli, 2005).”
Sustaining Superior Performance in Business Ecosystems: Evidence from Application Software Developers in the iOS and Android Smartphone Ecosystems (2017, background): “This approach is consistent with prior studies which have focused on studying the sustainability of firms’ superior performance (e.g., Wiggins & Ruefli, 2002, 2005; Hermelo & Vassolo, 2010).”
From Temporary Competitive Advantage to Sustainable Competitive Advantage (2015, unknown): “As noted by Wiggins and Ruefli (2005), firms with SCA are likely to be companies which achieved a series of TCAs over a period of time.”