Social and Structural Barriers to the IT Revolution in High-Tech Industries
Year: 1999
Type: preprint
Abstract: Organizational discontinuity appears to be an important contributor to venture success in rapidly changing technological environments. Most Silicon Valley ventures are assemblies of human, technological, and financial resources and supplier/client relationships with disparate organizational heritage. Such ventures are not traceable as an extension of any single existing organization and thus constitute discontinuity from how production used to be organized. We analyze ways in which organizational discontinuity, under conditions of high technological uncertainty, contributes to new ventures' competitive advantage and expose difficulties inherent to simulating venturing within an existing industrial organization. We use a comparative framework to expose the relative abundance of organizational discontinuity in the U.S. high technology sector and identify institutional barriers that stifle it in its Japanese counterpart.
Source: SSRN Electronic Journal
Authors: Dimitry Rtischev, Robert E. Cole
Institutions: Gakushuin University, University of California, Berkeley
Language: English
Subfield: Management of Technology and Innovation
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2255095251