Entrepreneurship in the large corporation: A longitudinal study of how established firms create breakthrough inventions

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Ahuja, G; Lampert, CM
• 署名单位: University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin
• 刊物名称: STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT JOURNAL
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0143-2095
• DOI: 10.1002/smj.176
• 发表日期: 2001
• 页码: 521-543
• 关键词: radical innovation; CORPORATE ENTREPRENEURSHIP; Organizational learning

摘要

We present a model that explains how established firms create breakthrough inventions. We Identify three organizational pathologies that inhibit breakthrough inventions: the familiarity trap - favoring the familiar the maturity trap - favoring the mature; and the propinquity trap - favoring search for solutions near to existing solutions. We argue that by experimenting with novel (i.e., technologies in which the firm lacks prior experience), emerging (technologies that al e recent or newly developed in the industry), and pioneering (technologies that do not build on any existing technologies) technologies firms can overcome these tl traps and create breakthrough inventions. Empirical evidence from the chemicals industry supports our model. Copyright (C) 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.