Intellectual property, architecture, and the management of technological transitions
Subtitle: evidence from Microsoft Corporation
By: Marco Iansiti, Alan MacCormack
Edition: Rev.
Series: Working paper / Division of Research, Harvard Business School -- 03-020; Working paper (Harvard Business School. Division of Research) -- 03-020
Publisher: Division of Research, Harvard Business School
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 52
Description: Many studies highlight the challenges facing incumbent firms in responding effectively to major technological transitions. While some authors argue that these challenges can be overcome by firms possessing what have been called "dynamic capabilities," little work has described in detail the critical resources that these capabilities leverage, or the processes through which these resources accumulate and evolve. This paper explores these issues through an in-depth exploratory case study of one firm that has demonstrated consistently strong performance in an industry that is highly dynamic and uncertain.
Notes: Originally published: c2002.

"Revised 03/06"--Publisher's website.

Includes bibliographical references.