Thinking about technology
Subtitle: applying a cognitive lens to technical change
By: Sarah Kaplan, Mary Tripsas
Contributors: Tripsas, Mary; Harvard Business School. Division of Research
Edition: Rev.
Series: Working paper / Division of Research, Harvard Business School -- 04-039; Working paper (Harvard Business School. Division of Research) -- 04-039
Publisher: Division of Research, Harvard Business School
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Boston]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 47
Description: We apply a cognitive lens to understanding technology trajectories across the life cycle. We develop a coevolutionary model of technological frames and technical change to explain sources of variation in the era of ferment, conditions under which a dominant design is achieved, the underlying architecture of the era of incremental change and the dynamics associated with discontinuities. We show that interactions of producers, users and institutions shape the development of collective frames around the meaning of new technologies.
Notes: Revision of: Thinking about technology: understanding the role of cognition and technical change. c2003.

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