How do organizations survive in the face of change? Underlying this question is a rich
debate about whether organizations can adapt—and if so how. One perspective …

This chapter reviews and integrates much of what has been learned on the processes of
technological evolution, their main features, and their effects on the evolution of industries …

Economic crises cause companies to reduce their investment, including investment in
innovation where returns are uncertain and long-term. This has been confirmed by the 2008 …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to empirically explore intellectual capital (IC) from a
multidimensional perspective and its relationship with organizational performance (OP) …

A major shift in the organization of developed economies has been taking place: away from
what has been characterized as the managed economy towards the entrepreneurial …

The advent of a new generation of wireless communications has punctuated the dawn of
every decade in recent times. Upgrades to mobile electronic systems represent faster and …

Although Darwin was writing about biological species 150 years ago, his logic applies to
organizations today. In 1959, Fortune magazine ranked General Motors as the largest, and …

This article examines to what extent and how the presence of gazelles, young high-impact
firms, is related to the growth of industries over time. For this purpose, we analyze gazelles …

This paper aims to show that alliance networks can play an important role in facilitating large-
scale strategic change projects. It focuses on the particular case of IBM, whose radical …

'Lower-tech'sectors are still commonly regarded as unusual suspects in the modern process
of innovation and economic change. In this paper we try to understand better how …