The relationship between new technologies and strategic activities Export

@article{citeulike:5536153, abstract = {While ‘new technology’ and ‘strategy’ are pervasive and foundational to this journal's inquiry, each term is filled with ambiguity. This paper seeks to extend our understanding by developing a model relating technology to strategy. The model is a two-by-two frame based on the distinction between ‘planned’ vs ‘emergent’ strategy and ‘latent’ vs ‘sensible’ technology. The frame generates four distinct domains that we label ‘development’, ‘capitalisation’, ‘creation’ and ‘cultivation’. The paper then considers the ‘creation’ quadrant through a case history of the stent industry. This case indicates that (a) new technologies lack the ‘revolutionary’ characteristic with which they are normally associated; (b) that the courthouse rather than the marketplace is an important if not primary domain where new technology firms compete; and (c) that new technology firms are much more aggressive when interacting with other new technology firms than they are with firms from the existing industry.}, author = {Lawlor, Jim and Kavanagh, Donncha}, citeulike-article-id = {5536153}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09537320902969117}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/routledg/ctas/2009/00000021/00000005/art00003}, doi = {10.1080/09537320902969117}, issn = {0953-7325}, journal = {Technology Analysis \& Strategic Management}, keywords = {innovation, strategy}, number = {5}, pages = {587--598}, posted-at = {2009-11-10 10:59:23}, priority = {2}, publisher = {Routledge}, title = {The relationship between new technologies and strategic activities}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09537320902969117}, volume = {21}, year = {2009} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:5536153 L3 - citeulike-article-id:5536153 N2 - While ‘new technology’ and ‘strategy’ are pervasive and foundational to this journal's inquiry, each term is filled with ambiguity. This paper seeks to extend our understanding by developing a model relating technology to strategy. The model is a two-by-two frame based on the distinction between ‘planned’ vs ‘emergent’ strategy and ‘latent’ vs ‘sensible’ technology. The frame generates four distinct domains that we label ‘development’, ‘capitalisation’, ‘creation’ and ‘cultivation’. The paper then considers the ‘creation’ quadrant through a case history of the stent industry. This case indicates that (a) new technologies lack the ‘revolutionary’ characteristic with which they are normally associated; (b) that the courthouse rather than the marketplace is an important if not primary domain where new technology firms compete; and (c) that new technology firms are much more aggressive when interacting with other new technology firms than they are with firms from the existing industry. IS - 5 JF - Technology Analysis & Strategic Management SN - 0953-7325 EP - 598 TI - The relationship between new technologies and strategic activities PB - Routledge VL - 21 SP - 587 KW - innovation KW - strategy AU - Lawlor, Jim AU - Kavanagh, Donncha PY - 2009/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09537320902969117 ER -