Technological Innovation : Oversights and Foresights

Frontmatter......Page 1
Contents......Page 7
Contributors......Page 9
Foreword......Page 11
Preface......Page 15
Section I - Introduction......Page 19
1 - Technological innovation: Oversights and foresights......Page 21
Section II - Learning to flip coins......Page 29
2 - On flipping coins and making technology choices: Luck as an explanation of technological foresight and oversight......Page 31
3 - Technological choices and the inevitability of errors......Page 38
4 - Rational entrepreneurs or optimistic martyrs? Some considerations on technological regimes, corporate entries, and the evolutionary role of decision biases......Page 59
Section III - Tailoring fits......Page 87
5 - Cognition and capabilities: Opportunities seized and missed in the history of the computer industry......Page 89
6 - Changing the game of corporate research: Learning to thrive in the fog of reality......Page 113
7 - Environmental determinants of work motivation, creativity, and innovation: The case of R&D downsizing......Page 129
Section IV - Remembering to forget......Page 145
8 - Local rationality, global blunders, and the boundaries of technological choice: Lessons from IBM and DOS......Page 147
9 - On the dynamics of forecasting in technologically complex environments: The unexpectedly long old age of optical lithography......Page 165
10 - Three faces of organizational learning: Wisdom, inertia, and discovery......Page 185
11 - Organizational entrepreneurship in mature-industry firms: Foresight, oversight, and invisibility......Page 199
12 - Minimizing technological oversights: A marketing research perspective......Page 232
Section V - (S)Top management and culture......Page 249
13 - Firm capabilities and managerial decision making: A theory of innovation biases......Page 251
14 - Organization responsiveness to environmental shock as an indicator of organizational foresight and oversight: The role of executive team characteristics and organizational context......Page 278
15 - Technological innovation, learning, and leadership......Page 297
16 - Risky lessons: Conditions for organizational learning......Page 324
17 - Exploiting enthusiasm: A case study of applied theories of innovation......Page 343
Section VI - Clearing the fog......Page 361
18 - Beating the odds: Towards a theory of technological innovation......Page 363
Author Index......Page 373
Subject Index......Page 379