posted on 2017-09-15, 10:57authored bySaeed Khanagha, Henk Volberda, Ilan Oshri
Prior research has emphasized the importance of organizational focus on exploratory behavior in response to the emergence of a revolutionary core technology and the associated uncertainties. The question of why some organizations are more successful than others at realizing and reacting to such a need has not yet been fully addressed. In particular, empirical evidence on the effects of customer orientation on the effectiveness of organizational responses to major technological changes is somewhat mixed. We develop and test a theoretical argument in which we emphasize an indirect link between customer involvement in innovation processes and exploratory behavior in emerging technology fields. In so doing, first we illustrate the part played by two managerial factors d attention to the technology and the introduction of non-routine organizational adaptations d in enabling exploratory activities such as experimentation
and search for unfamiliar knowledge in a new technology field. Second, we discuss how customer co-creation contributes to both of these managerial factors and, consequently, indirectly stimulates exploratory behavior in these conditions. We provide empirical support for our related theoretical framework by means of six case studies and a survey among 131 companies that were adopting a similar emerging technology; i.e., Cloud computing.
History
School
Business and Economics
Department
Business
Published in
Long Range Planning
Volume
50
Issue
2
Pages
221 - 242
Citation
KHANAGHA, S., VOLBERDA, H. and OSHRI, I., 2017. Customer co-creation and exploration of emerging technologies: The mediating role of managerial attention and initiatives. Long Range Planning, 50 (2), pp. 221-242.
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Acceptance date
2015-11-19
Publication date
2016-01-21
Notes
This paper was published in the journal Long Range Planning and the definitive published version is available at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lrp.2015.12.019.