Immortal firms in mortal markets? An entrepreneurial perspective on the "innovator's dilemma"
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Authors
Dew, Nicholas
Sarasvathy, Saras D.
Read, Stuart
Wiltbank, Robert
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product innovation
entrepreneurialism
market driven production
customer orientation
entrepreneurialism
market driven production
customer orientation
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2008
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Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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Abstract
The "innovator's dilemma" suggests that by listening to current customers leading firms often lose their markets to upstart newcomers as a result. The purpose of this papper is to understand how entrpreneurs successfully create such upstart firms and new markets, since this ought to have direct implications for theorizing about the innovator's dilemmma.
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Article
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DOI 10.1108/14601060810888982
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Graduate School of Business & Public Policy (GSBPP)
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Naval Postgraduate School (U.S.)
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European Journal of Innovation Management, v.11, no.3, 2006, pp. 313-329