Incommensurate technological paradigms? Quarreling in the RFID industry
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Dew, Nicholas
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2006
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Oxford University Press
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Dosi’s work on technology paradigms and trajectories has emerged as an important idea in evolutionary approaches to the economics of innovation. This article explores these ideas using one particular case history. I examine how two technology paradigms clashed in the radio frequency identification (RFID) industry in the 2000–2002 period, a clash that manifested itself in a public quarrel that broke out
between proponents of an incumbent paradigm and a challenger paradigm. These events present an excellent vantage point from which to observe a debate between two different technological perspectives within one industry to gain insights into the influence of technology paradigms.
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The article of record as published may be found at http://dx.doi.org/10..1093/icc/dtl017
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Strategic Management
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Naval Postgraduate School (U.S.)
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27 p.
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Industrial and Corporate Change, v. 15, no. 5, 2006, pp. 785-810
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This publication is a work of the U.S. Government as defined in Title 17, United States Code, Section 101. Copyright protection is not available for this work in the United States.