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Disruptive Innovation and the Idea of Technology
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Abstract From its obscure origins in management theory, disruptive innovation has become one of the concepts used to describe how networked digital technologies and platforms transform industries and institutions. In this paper, I will examine how contested, and at times incommensurable, iterations of disrup... view more
From its obscure origins in management theory, disruptive innovation has become one of the concepts used to describe how networked digital technologies and platforms transform industries and institutions. In this paper, I will examine how contested, and at times incommensurable, iterations of disruptive innovation share a similar idea of technology. Drawing upon discourses of disruptive innovation from management theory, institutional policies, and popular culture reveals a shared idea of technology whose characteristics include a reified idea of technology and a horizon of expectations in which fear of falling behind influences ideas about technological change.... view less
Keywords
technology; technological change; innovation; anxiety
Classification
Sociology of Science, Sociology of Technology, Research on Science and Technology
Free Keywords
Disruptive Innovation; Technology; Conceptual History; Fear; Reification
Document language
English
Publication Year
2019
Page/Pages
p. 18-40
Journal
NOvation - Critical Studies of Innovation (2019) 1
Issue topic
X‐innovation: Re‐inventing Innovation Again and Again
ISSN
2562-7147
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed
Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0