Modelling the Disruptive Innovations
https://doi.org/10.26794/2308-944X-2020-8-2-29-33
Abstract
Horse carriages, film cameras, and traditional encyclopedia were dethroned by the once bizarre cars, digital cameras, and online resources, respectively. Although such major shifts were happening for at least one hundred years by now, the Theory of disruptive innovations was designed only in the late nineties by a prominent academic and business consultant Clayton Christensen. So, the main questions of my paper are how do disruptive innovations proceed and what are the factors causing the disruption? The existing literature provides a substantial critique of Christensen’s theory and taken this into account. I propose that the disruptions usually succeed due to the random factors or the ones not directly connected to disruption Theory and unfold favourably for incumbents irrespectively of their strategical choices.
References
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For citations:
Kharlov L. Modelling the Disruptive Innovations. Review of Business and Economics Studies. 2020;8(3):29-33. https://doi.org/10.26794/2308-944X-2020-8-2-29-33
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