Technological lockout: an integrative model of the economic and strategic factors driving technology success and failure
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Technology markets often exhibit extreme path dependency, enabling random or idiosyncratic events to have dramatic effects on technology success or failure. However, these effects accrue in an ordered way: by impacting a set of factors that have predictable influences on technology adoption. Since firm strategy also impacts these factors, technology adoption is neither wholly random nor beyond the firm's control. In this article I build a model of these factors by integrating economics, strategy, and marketing research. The model yields important implications for the strategic development and deployment of technology. (Reprinted by permission of the publisher.)
Publication Name: Academy of Management Review
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0363-7425
Year: 1998
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A New B-School Mission: Teaching High-Tech Savvy
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The information management programs of four universities are outlined. These programs are designed to meet the growing need for technology-knowledgeable managers. Personal computers are used in both classrooms and in homework. Students learn how to establish and operate electronic information libraries. They also learn how to make information searches and to evaluate communications technology. A photograph of a teacher and students using personal computers is included.
Publication Name: Business Week
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0007-7135
Year: 1984
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