Technological Innovation: Oversights and Foresights

by Edited by Raghu Garud , Praveen Rattan Nayyar , Zur Baruch Shapira , Foreword by James G. March

• ISBN13: 9780521084727
• ISBN10: 0521084725
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-10-14
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

The capacity for technology businesses to grow and change with the times is linked to how they develop and market technological innovations. Despite the importance of technological changes for corporate vitality, there are documented instances of corporations failing to capitalize on technological opportunities. Innovation outcome is contingent upon a match between a firm's internal capabilities and its external environments, even as innovation activities are complex and constrained. How can the slim odds of success be enhanced? Technological Innovation analyses why companies choose certain new technologies, from a technological, economic, and institutional perspective. Based upon multidisciplinary research on technological choice, the book bridges research and practice.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Technological Learning, Oversights and Foresights: An Overview

Learning to Flip Coins

On Flipping Coins and Making Technology Choices: Luck as an explanation of technological foresight and oversight

Technological Choices and the Inevitability of Errors

Rational Entrepreneurs or Optimistic Martyrs? Some considerations on technological regimes, industrial dynamics, and the evolutionary role of decision biases

Tailoring Fits

Cognition and Capabilities: Opportunities seized and missed in the history of the computer industry

Changing the Game of Corporate Research: Learning to think in the fog of reality

Environmental Determinants of Work Motivation, Creativity and Innovation: The case of R&D downsizing

Remembering to Forget

Local rationality, global blunders, and the boundaries of technological choice: Lessons from IBM and DOS

Of Life Cycles Real and Imaginary

Three Faces of Organizational Learning: wisdom, inertia, and discovery

Organizational Entrepreneurship in Mature Industry Firms: Foresight, Oversight and Invisibility

Minimizing Technological Oversights: A marketing research perspective

(S)top Management and Culture

Firm Capabilites and Managerial Decision-Making: A theory of innovation biases

Organizational Responsiveness to Environmental Shock as an Indicator of Organizational Foresight and Oversight: The role of executive team characteristics and organizational context

Technological Innovation, Learning and Leadership

Risky Lessons: Conditions for Organizational Learning

Exploiting Enthusiasm: A case study of applied theories of innovation

Clearing the Fog

Beating the Odds: Towards a theory of technological innovation

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