We rehearse the processes of innovation and discovery in general terms, using as our main metaphor the biological concept of an evolutionary fitness landscape. Incremental and disruptive innovations are seen, respectively, as successful searches carried out locally or more widely. They may also be understood as reflecting evolution by mutation (incremental) versus recombination (disruptive). We...

Today, companies often face rapid and substantial change of their business environment. To stay competitive, firms are forced to engage in continuous innovation of their products and services. Moreover, the digitization of society and organizations has led to an increase in radical and disruptive innovations across all industries and trades. As a result, companies often find it difficult to dev...

Christensen’s (1997) thesis of disruptive technology has been highly praised and popular with managers. Two of its premises are important and insightful. These deal with the performance path of a disruptive technology and its impact on dominant incumbents who ignore it in favor of listening to their current consumers. However, Christensen’s thesis also suffers from limitations, two of which are...

We address current discussions on the potential of cloud computing to disrupt the structures of the software industry by selecting, validating and further developing a method for ex-ante identification of disruptive innovations that we imported from innovation management theory into the information systems area. Based on a review of a previous forecast in the area of web applications, we could ...

At the beginning of the twenty-first century, cardiothoracic surgery is arguably the most successful of all medical specialties. There are effective treatments including transplantation, for almost all cardiac and thoracic diseases that can be performed with low morbidity and mortality. Cardiothoracic surgeons have mastered technical difficulties through innovation, hard work, planning and skil...

Blockchain technology has the potential to drive product innovation in various industries. This emerging is an important enabler of next generation new ventures. Our study examines effects business model designs blockchain-based entrepreneurial firms on scope innovation, including disruptive and adoptive innovation. To test this relationship, we conduct a survey collect data from 159 The findin...

In this paper we explore the state of current knowledge about online social networks (OSNs), and their role in precipitating changes in existing market structures. We do so by reviewing more than 30 recent papers from top-ranked journals in the relevant fields of study. We begin by providing a comprehensive explanation of OSN antecedents that lead to innovation and subsequently to change in mar...

IP-telephony has been presented as a technology which can replace existing fixed-line services and disrupt the telecommunications industry by offering new low priced services. This study investigates the diffusion of IP-telephony in Denmark by focusing on vendors’ commercialisation strategies. The theory of disruptive innovation is introduced to investigate vendors’ perceptions about IP telepho...

Without new products and services utilizing this infrastructure (m-services), however, these investments may never be recollected, and today there is no sure sign of demand for these new “nomadic applications” in the market. This paper shows how actors in the m-services value network co-ordinate their efforts to bring such applications to the marketplace. It shows their risk averse and locally ...