Dynamic Commercialization Strategies for Disruptive Technologies: Evidence from the Speech Recognition Industry
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Marx, Matt; Gans, Joshua S.; Hsu, David H.
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When start-up innovation involves a potentially disruptive technology—initially lagging in the predominant performance metric, but with a potentially favorable trajectory of improvement—incumbents may be wary of engaging in cooperative commercialization with the start-up. While the prevailing theory of disruptive innovation suggests that this will lead to (exclusively) competitive commercialization and the eventual replacement of incumbents, we consider a dynamic strategy involving product market entry before switching to a cooperative commercialization strategy. Empirical evidence from the automated speech recognition industry from 1952 to 2010 confirms our main hypothesis.
Date issued
2014-12Department
Sloan School of ManagementJournal
Management Science
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Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS)
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Marx, Matt, Joshua S. Gans, and David H. Hsu. “Dynamic Commercialization Strategies for Disruptive Technologies: Evidence from the Speech Recognition Industry.” Management Science 60, no. 12 (December 2014): 3103–3123.
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0025-1909
1526-5501