Using the resource-based view of the firm, the authors hypothesize that differences in adoption of radical technoloqies among firms can be attributed to a sense-and-respond capability of firms with respect to new technologies;which is termed technological opportunism. Using survey data from senior managers in business-to-business firms. the authors studv the adootion of e-business. a radical te...

In this paper, I examine the impact of partner technological diversity and alliance organizational form on firm innovative performance. Using a sample of 463 R&D alliances in the telecommunications equipment industry, I find that alliances contribute far more to firm innovation when technological diversity is moderate, rather than low or high. Although this relationship holds irrespective of al...

Depictions of scientific development in popular media carry significant influence over the way that the public envisions science as a process and as an institution. One such popular depiction of science is the “Tech Tree,” a common game mechanic in strategy videogames. This mechanic is often problematic, as in its most common form, the tech tree depicts a technologically deterministic view of s...

We show how a variety of confidentiality properties can be expressed in terms of the abstraction mechanisms that CSP provides. We argue that determinism of the abstracted low-security viewpoint provides the best type of property. By changing the form of abstraction mechanism we are able to model different assumptions about how systems behave, including handling the distinction between input and...

Many philosophers accept the following three theses: (1) that probability is amodal concept; (2) that, if determinism is true, therewould still be objective modal facts; and (3) that if determinism is true, there are no genuine objective probabilities (chances). I argue that these 3 claims are inconsistent, and that their widespread acceptance is thus quite troubling. I suggest, as others have,...

We examine how the multiplicity of interorganizational relationships affects strategic behavior by studying the influence of two such relationships—knowledge linkages and commercialization ties—on the voting behavior of firms in a technological standardssetting committee. We find that, while centrally positioned firms in the knowledge network exhibit lower opposition to the standard, centrally ...

We study firms' optimal investment behavior in a dynamic duopoly framework. Embodied technological progress makes later generations more productive. The resulting model is a differential game combined with a vintage capital goods structure. Since such a framework has not been analyzed before, existing concepts have to be modified. Our numerical analysis first shows that a technological breakthr...

Affordance theory has promise for studying technology’s role in organizational change. By distinguishing properties of technology and their affordances in relation to its users, it facilitates the examination of technological consequences whilst avoiding technological determinism. This paper argues that it is useful to explore affordances and consequences of their actualization (or the lack of)...

It is now evident that sustainability of an organisation is affected by its capability for the utilisation and development of new technologies. This potential, as the engine of strategic development of organisations, is based on the quality and quantity of the transfer of technology into organisations in both developed and developing countries. The fact that organisations in the first world are...