Mary Tripsas

TL;DR: The authors examined the relationship between managers' understanding of the world and the accumulation of organizational capabilities through an in-depth case study of the response of the Polaroid Corporation to the ongoing shift from analog to digital imaging.

TL;DR: In this article, a combination of quantitative and qualitative analysis is used to unravel the process of creative destruction in the typesetter industry and argue that the ultimate commercial performance of incumbents vs. new entrants is driven by the balance and interaction of three factors: investment, technical capabilities, and appropriability through specialized complementary assets.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors developed a process model of how users, an understudied source of entrepreneurship, create, evaluate, share, and commercialize their ideas, highlighting the emergent and collective nature of the user's entrepreneurial process.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used a combination of quantitative and qualitative analysis to unravel the process of creative destruction in the typesetter industry and argued that the ultimate commercial performance of incumbents vs. new entrants is driven by the balance and interaction of three factors: investment, technical capabilities, and appropriability through specialized complementary assets.

TL;DR: A cognitive lens is applied to understanding technology trajectories across the life cycle by developing a co-evolutionary model of technological frames and technology, which identifies conditions under which a cognitive lens might change the expected technological outcome predicted by purely economic or organizational models.