Administrative Science Quarterly articles from March 1990

Administrative Science Quarterly archives from March 1990

Architectural innovation: the reconfiguration of existing product technologies and the failure of established firms. (Technology, Organizations, and Innovation)
March 1, 1990... Architectural Innovation: The Reconfiguration of Existing Product Technologies and the Failure of Established Firms This paper demonstrates that the traditional categorization of innovation as either incremental or radical is incomplete and...

The organizational ecology of a technological system. (Technology, Organizations, and Innovation)
March 1, 1990... The Organizational Ecology of a Technological System This paper investigates organizational mortality in the early American telephone industry, in which thousands of companies proliferated and failed under conditions of technological change....

The alignment of technology and structure through roles and networks. (Technology, Organizations, and Innovation)
March 1, 1990... The Alignment of Technology and Structure through Roles and Networks This paper outlines a role-based approach for conceptualizing and investigating the contention in some previous research that technologies change organizational and...

Changing patterns or patterns of change: the effects of a change in technology on social network structure and power. (Technology, Organizations, and Innovation)
March 1, 1990... Changing Patterns or Patterns of Change: The Effects of a Change in Technology on Social Network Structure and Power The effects of a change in technology on organizational structure and power were investigated in a longitudinal study of the...

Absorptive capacity: a new perspective on learning and innovation. (Technology, Organizations, and Innovation)
March 1, 1990... Absorptive Capacity: A New Perspective on Learning and Innovation In this paper, we argue that the ability of a firm to recognize the value of new, external information, assimilate it, and apply it to commercial ends is critical to its...

The R&D boundaries of the firm: an empirical analysis. (research and development) (Technology, Organizations, and Innovation)
March 1, 1990... The R&D Boundaries of the Firm: An Empirical Analysis This paper examines how two sources of transaction costs, small-numbers-bargaining hazards and appropriability concerns, may affect established firms' choices between in-house and external...

Speeding products to market: waiting time to first product introduction in new firms. (Technology, Organizations, and Innovation)
March 1, 1990... We used the techniques of event-history analysis to examine the speed with which newly founded organizations ship their first products for revenues, an important entrepreneurial event. In a longitudinal study of new ventures in the U.S....