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Publication date: 16 September 2017

Platforms, Open/User Innovation, and Ecosystems: A Strategic Leadership Perspective

Elizabeth J. Altman and Michael L. Tushman

Platform, open/user innovation, and ecosystem strategies embrace and enable interactions with external entities. Firms pursuing these approaches conduct business and…

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Platform, open/user innovation, and ecosystem strategies embrace and enable interactions with external entities. Firms pursuing these approaches conduct business and interact with environments differently than those pursuing traditional closed strategies. This chapter considers these strategies together highlighting similarities and differences between platform, open/user innovation, and ecosystem strategies. We focus on managerial and organizational challenges for organizations pursuing these strategies and identify four institutional logic shifts associated with these strategic transitions: (1) increasing external focus, (2) moving to greater openness, (3) focusing on enabling interactions, and (4) adopting interaction-centric metrics. As mature incumbent organizations adopt these strategies, there may be tensions and multiple conflicting institutional logics. Additionally, we consider four strategic leadership topics and how they relate to platform, open/user innovation, and ecosystem strategies: (1) executive orientation and experience, (2) top management teams, (3) board-management relations, and (4) executive compensation. We discuss theoretical implications, and consider future directions and research opportunities.

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Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Platforms
Type: Book
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/S0742-332220170000037007
ISBN: 978-1-78743-080-8

Keywords

  • Platforms
  • open/user innovation
  • ecosystems
  • crowdsourcing
  • institutional logics
  • strategic leadership
  • top management teams
  • CEO role

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Publication date: 1 April 1997

THE AMBIDEXTROUS ORGANIZATION

How can an executive both optimize a mature business and encourage innovation? It's not easy, as Michael L. Tushman told JBS, but it can be done.

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How can an executive both optimize a mature business and encourage innovation? It's not easy, as Michael L. Tushman told JBS, but it can be done.

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Journal of Business Strategy, vol. 18 no. 4
Type: Research Article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/eb039871
ISSN: 0275-6668

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Publication date: 1 April 1997

Winning through innovation

Michael L. Tushman

This article is based on Professor Tushman's well‐received presentation at the 1997 international trategic leadership conference in Washington, D.C., in April

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This article is based on Professor Tushman's well‐received presentation at the 1997 international trategic leadership conference in Washington, D.C., in April

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Strategy & Leadership, vol. 25 no. 4
Type: Research Article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/eb054591
ISSN: 1087-8572

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Publication date: 1 February 1999

Discontinuous innovation and the growth paradox

Soren M. Kaplan

“To understand that a technology — and the company whose future success depends on it — will eventually face the end of its lifecycle inspires urgency for, and commitment…

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“To understand that a technology — and the company whose future success depends on it — will eventually face the end of its lifecycle inspires urgency for, and commitment to, discontinuous innovation.”

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Strategy & Leadership, vol. 27 no. 2
Type: Research Article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/eb054631
ISSN: 1087-8572

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Publication date: 1 March 2001

The concept of fit in organizational research

Prescott C. Ensign

This paper focuses on the concept of fit as a topic of research. The concept of fit has been viewed as an internal consistency among key strategic decisions or the…

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This paper focuses on the concept of fit as a topic of research. The concept of fit has been viewed as an internal consistency among key strategic decisions or the alignment between strategic choices and critical contingencies with the environment (external), organization (internal), or both (external and internal). A number of research perspectives or approaches related to fit are presented.Research design problems are discussed: definition of terms, theoretical issues, and empirical issues. Emphasis is on how key variables or dimensions of fit are defined and measured in research.

A six-celled matrix is proposed as a conceptual scheme to distinguish different perspectives of fit and to portray congruence relationships more accurately. The matrix includes three common dimensions: strategy, organization, and environment. The matrix also suggests two levels of strategy—corporate or business—and three domains of fit—external, internal, or integrated. These suggest different research perspectives for the study of fit. Examples from the literature are provided to illustrate and support this conceptual scheme. Finally, implications for management and furtherstudy are outlined.

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International Journal of Organization Theory & Behavior, vol. 4 no. 3/4
Type: Research Article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/IJOTB-04-03-04-2001-B005
ISSN: 1093-4537

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Publication date: 18 November 2019

Overcoming cultural resistance to open source innovation

John Winsor, Jin Paik, Mike Tushman and Karim Lakhani

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Strategy & Leadership, vol. 47 no. 6
Type: Research Article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/SL-08-2019-0114
ISSN: 1087-8572

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Publication date: 16 September 2017

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Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Platforms
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/S0742-332220170000037015
ISBN: 978-1-78743-080-8

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Publication date: 1 March 2001

Retraining and the technological productivity paradox

Laurie Larwood, Sergei Rodkin and Dean Judson

The need to maintain up-to-date technological skills despite an aging workforce makes it imperative that organizations increasingly focus on retraining older employees…

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The need to maintain up-to-date technological skills despite an aging workforce makes it imperative that organizations increasingly focus on retraining older employees. This article develops an adult career model based on the acquisition of technological skills and gradual skill obsolescence. The model suggests the importance of retraining and provides practical implications to the development of retraining programs. Suggestions for future research are also offered.

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International Journal of Organization Theory & Behavior, vol. 4 no. 3/4
Type: Research Article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/IJOTB-04-03-04-2001-B002
ISSN: 1093-4537

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Publication date: 18 December 2008

From R&D to Commercialization: A System Dynamic Approach

Kanghwa Choi and Soo W. Kim

This paper describes a comprehensive approach to examine how technological innovation contributes to the renewal of a firm’s competences through its dynamic and reciprocal…

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This paper describes a comprehensive approach to examine how technological innovation contributes to the renewal of a firm’s competences through its dynamic and reciprocal relationship with R&D and product commercialization. Three theories of technology and innovation (the R&D and technological knowledge concept, product‐process concept, technological interdependence concept) are used to relate technology and innovation to strategic management. Based on these theories, this paper attempts to identify the dynamic relationship between product innovation and process innovation using system dynamics by investigating that aspect of the dynamic changes in the closed feedback circulation structure in which R&D investments drive the accumulation of technological knowledge.

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Asian Journal on Quality, vol. 9 no. 3
Type: Research Article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/15982688200800031
ISSN: 1598-2688

Keywords

  • R&D
  • Product innovation
  • Process innovation
  • System dynamics
  • Technological knowledge accumlation
  • Productivity
  • Customer satisfaction
  • Profit generation

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Publication date: 13 May 2019

Book review: Lead and Disrupt: How to solve the Innovator’s Dilemma

Marta Morais-Storz

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The Learning Organization, vol. 26 no. 4
Type: Research Article
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1108/TLO-05-2019-235
ISSN: 0969-6474

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