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Perspectives on disruptive innovations

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Peer-reviewed

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Article

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Authors

Kumaraswamy, A 
Garud, R 
Ansari, SM 

Abstract

Everyday experiences speak to the accelerated pace of innovation in this era of continual change. Sometimes, innovations enhance the value of existing products and services. At other times, they render existing business models obsolete, disrupt value‐networks, prompt providers to rethink who their customers are, and lead customers to rethink what they value. What does it mean to manage in such a world of disruptive changes, and how might we research this phenomenon? Together with the contributors to this special issue, we anchor, explore and extend the meanings associated with the concept of disruptive innovation. In particular, we discuss several perspectives on disruption – evolutionary, relational, temporal and framing – that culminate in a performative (as opposed to a predictive) approach to thinking about the phenomenon. In doing so, our intention is to open up the agenda for both researchers and practitioners.

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Keywords

3503 Business Systems In Context, 35 Commerce, Management, Tourism and Services

Journal Title

Journal of Management Studies

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Journal ISSN

1467-6486
1467-6486

Volume Title

55

Publisher

Wiley-Blackwell