TY - JOUR
T1 - Role of relevant lead users of mainstream product in the emergence of disruptive innovation
AU - Roy, Raja
N1 - Funding Information:
Raja Roy is Assistant Professor at New Jersey Institute of Technology in Newark, NJ. He earned his Ph.D. in Strategic Management from the University of Pittsburgh. His research on technological disruption has been published in Strategic Management Journal, Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, Research Policy Advances in Strategic Management and IEEE TEM. He holds a B.E. in Production Engineering from Jadavpur University, India. He is on the Editorial Review Board of Organization Science, a premier INFORMS journal. He is also Reviewer of Grants Proposals for National Science Foundation program for National Robotics Initiative and National Science Foundation program for Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (S-STEM).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 Elsevier Inc.
PY - 2018/4
Y1 - 2018/4
N2 - We combine insights received from prior research on the role of lead user and prior investigations of disruptive innovation. Our research illustrates the role of a particular lead user, which we refer to as the relevant lead user, in paving the way for the potentially disruptive technology to be a definitely disruptive one. Through focused consideration, we reveal characteristics that may be significant in identifying users as relevant in relation to potentially disruptive innovation. Our research also reveals that contrary to Christensen's assumption, incumbents do not embrace the inevitable and jump from the old technology to the new. Rather, the transformation occurs over a period of time.
AB - We combine insights received from prior research on the role of lead user and prior investigations of disruptive innovation. Our research illustrates the role of a particular lead user, which we refer to as the relevant lead user, in paving the way for the potentially disruptive technology to be a definitely disruptive one. Through focused consideration, we reveal characteristics that may be significant in identifying users as relevant in relation to potentially disruptive innovation. Our research also reveals that contrary to Christensen's assumption, incumbents do not embrace the inevitable and jump from the old technology to the new. Rather, the transformation occurs over a period of time.
KW - Relevant lead user
KW - Technological change
KW - Technological disruption
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U2 - 10.1016/j.techfore.2017.09.036
DO - 10.1016/j.techfore.2017.09.036
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85034845099
SN - 0040-1625
VL - 129
SP - 314
EP - 322
JO - Technological Forecasting and Social Change
JF - Technological Forecasting and Social Change
ER -