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Tom Allen Recommended Reading List

Surveys and Overviews Pavitt, Keith (1990). What We Know about the Strategic Management of Technology. California Management Review, Vol. 32, No. 3 pp. 17-26. Roberts, Edward B. (1988). Managing Invention and Innovation: What Weve Learnt. ResearchTechnology Management, Vol. 31, No. 1, Jan-Feb. Tidd, Bessant, and Pavitt (1997). Managing Innovation. Sussex: John Wiley & Sons Ltd. Utterback, James M. (1974). Innovation in Industry and the Diffusion of Technology. Science, Vol. 183, February 15. pp. 620-626. Van de Ven, Andrew (1986). Central Problems in the Management of Innovation. Management Science, Vol. 32, No. 5, May. Reprinted in Readings in the Management of Technological Innovation, Tushman and Moore, (eds.), 1988, New York: Harper Collins.

Patterns of Technological Change Basic Issues Clark, Kim B. (1985), "The Interaction of Design Hierarchies and Market Concepts in Technological Evolution", Research Policy, Vol. 14, pp. 235-251. Nelson, R. and R. and S. G. Winter (1977). In Search Useful Theory of Innovation. Research Policy, Vol. 6, No. 1. pp. 36-76. Pavitt, Keith (1984). Sectoral Patterns of Technical Change: Towards a Taxonomy and a Theory. Research Policy, Vol. 13, No. 6. pp. 343-373. Rosenburg, Nathan (1982). Inside the Black Box: Technology and Economics. Cambridge (UK): Cambridge University Press. Chapters 3, 6, 7. Rosenberg, Nathan (1994), "Neglected Uncertainties in the Economics of Technical Change", Conference on Growth and Development working paper, CEPR, Stanford University.

Creative Destruction and Evolutionary Change Abernathy, William J. and James M. Utterback (1978). Patterns of Industrial Innovation. Technology Review, Cambridge: MIT Press, pp. 40-47.

Abernathy, William J. and Kim Clark (1985). Innovation: Mapping the Winds of Creative Destruction. Research Policy, No. 14, p. 3-22. Nelson, R. and S. Winter (1982). An Evolutionary Theory of Economic Change. Cambridge (MA): Harvard University Press, pp. 1-136. Schumpeter, Joseph (1942). Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy, 2nd Edition. London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd. pp. 72-120. Tushman, Michael L. and Philip Anderson (1986). Technological Discontinuities and Organizational Environments. Administrative Science Quarterly, Vol. 31. pp. 439-465. Tushman, Michael L. and Lori Rosenkopf (1992), "Organizational Determinants of Technological Change: Towards a Sociology of Technological Evolution", in Research in Organizational Behavior, eds. B. M. Staw and L. L. Cummings, JAI Press, Greenwich, CT, pp. 311-347. Utterback, James M. (1994), Mastering the Dynamics of Innovation, Boston (MA): Harvard University Press, chapters 3,4,6,7.

Technological Trajectories Christensen, Clayton M. and Richard S. Rosenbloom (1995), "Explaining the Attackers Advantage: Technological Paradigms, Organizational Dynamics and the Value Network", Research Policy, Vol. 24, pp. 233-257. Dosi, Giovanni (1982), "Technological Paradigms and Technological Trajectories", Research Policy, Vol. 11, No. 3, pg. 147-162. Foster, R (1986), "The S-curve: A New Forecasting Tool.", Innovation: The Attackers Advantage, New York: Summit Books, pp. 88-111. Rosenberg, Nathan, "Directions of Technological Change: Inducement Mechanisms and Focusing Devices", Economic Development and Cultural Change, pg. 1-24. Sahal, D. (1985), "Technology Guide-Posts and Innovation Avenues", Research Policy, Vol. 14, No. 2, pp. 61-82.

Incumbents and Entrants

Henderson, Rebecca M. (1993). Underinvestment and Incompetence as Responses to Radical Innovation: Evidence from the Photolithographic Alignment Equipment Industry. Rand Journal of Economics, Vol. 24, No. 2, Summer. pp. 248-270. Henderson, Rebecca M. and Kim Clark (1990). Architectural Innovation: The Reconfiguration of Existing Product Technologies and the Failure of Established Firms. Administrative Science Quarterly, Vol. 35. pp. 9-30.

University and Basic Scientific Research Allen, Thomas J. "Distinguishing Science from Technology", The Human Side of Managing Technological Innovation, ed. Ralph Katz, New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 307-319. Nelson, R. (1959). The Simple Economics of Basic Scientific Research. Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 67, No. 3. pp. 297-306. Nelson, R. (1962). The Link between Science and Invention: The Case of the Transistor. The Rate and Direction of Inventive Activity, NBER, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. pp. 549-586. Rosenberg, Nathan (1990). Why Do Firms Do Basic Research (With Their Own Money? Research Policy, Vol. 19, No. 2, April. pp. 165-174.

Technology Strategy and Firm Performance Porter, Michael E., The Technological Dimension of Competitive Strategy. Research on Technological Innovation, Management and Policy, Vol 1, pp 1-33. JAI Press, 1983.

Timing and the Dynamics of Technology Strategy Bower, Joseph L. and Clayton M. Christensen (1995), "Disruptive Technologies: Catching the wave", Harvard Business Review (Jan-Feb), pp. 43-53. Christensen, Clayton M. (1992), "The Limits of the Technology S-Curve", Parts I and II, Production and Operation Management. Christensen, Clayton M., Fernando F. Surez and James M. Utterback (1998), "Strategies for Survival in Fast-Changing Industries", Management Science, Vol. 44, No. 2 (Part 2 of 2), pp. S207-S220.

Cockburn, I. And R. Henderson (1994), "Racing to Invest? The Dynamics of Competition in Ethical Drug Discovery, Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, Vol. 3, pp. 481-519. Reinganum, J. F. (1989), "The Timing of Innovation: Research, Development and Diffusion", Handbook of Industrial Organization, eds. R. Schmalensee and R. D. Willig, B.V.: Elsevier Science Publishers, Vol. I, chap. 14, pp. 850-908.

Knowledge and Capabilities Kogut, Bruce and Udo Zander (1992). Knowledge of the Firm, Combinative Capabilities, and the Replication of Technology. Organization Science Vol. 3, No. 3, August. pp. 383-397. Rosenbloom, Richard S. and Michael A. Cusumano (1987). Technological Pioneering and Competitive Advantage: The Birth of the VCR Industry. California Management Review Teece, David J., Gary Pisano, and Amy Shuen (1997). Dynamic Capabilities and Strategic Management. Strategic Management Journal, Vol. 18, No. 7. pp. 509-533.

Inter-Organizational Technological Relationships Gans, Joshua S. and Scott Stern (1997). Incumbency and R&D Incentives: Licensing the Gale of Creative Destruction. mimeo, MIT Sloan School and Melbourne Business School. Katz, Michael (1987), "R&D Rivalry with Licensing or Imitation", American Economic Review, Vol. 77, No. 3 (June). Freeman, Christopher (1991). Networks of Innovators: A Synthesis of Research Issues. Research Policy, Vol. 20, No. 5. pp. 499-514. Hagedoorn, John and Geert Duysters (1997), "External Appropriation of Innovative Capabilities: The Choice Between Strategic Technology Alliances and Mergers and Acquisitions", Academy of Management Meeting, (TIM Division Best Paper) Hagedoorn, John and Jos Schakenraad (1994), The Effect of Strategic Technology Alliances on Company Performance, Strategic Management Journal, Vol 15, 291-309. Kogut, Bruce (1988), "Joint Ventures: Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives", Strategic Management Journal, Vol. 9, pp. 319-332. Technology and Economics

Porter, Michael E. (1981), "The Contributions of Industrial Organization to Strategic Management", Academy of Management Review, Vol. 6, No. 4, pp. 609-620. Porter, Michael E. (1996), "What Is Strategy?", Harvard Business Review, Nov.-Dec., pp. 61-78. The Innovation Process, Knowledge, and Learning Katz, Ralph and Thomas J. Allen, "Organizational Issues in the Introduction of New Technologies", The Human Side of Managing Technological Innovation, ed. Ralph Katz, New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 384-397. Roberts, Edward B. (1979). Stimulating Technological Innovation Organizational Approaches. Research Management, Vol. XXII, No. 6, November. Arrow, K. (1969). Classificatory Notes on the Production and Transmission of Technological Knowledge. American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, Vol. 59. pp. 29-35. Bohn, Roger (1994). Measuring and Managing Technological Knowledge. Sloan Management Review, Fall. Leonard-Barton, Dorothy (1995). Wellsprings of Knowledge: Building and Sustaining the Sources of Innovation. Boston: Harvard Business School Press. Polyani, Michael (1962). Personal Knowledge: Towards a Post-Critical Philosophy. New York: Harper Torchbooks. Simon, Herbert A. (1981). The Sciences of the Artificial, Second Edition. Cambridge (MA): MIT Press. Chapters 1-3. Tyre, Marcie and Eric von Hippel (1997). The Situated Nature of Adaptive Learning in Organizations. Organization Science, Vol. 8, No. 1, January/February. pp. 71-83. Van de Ven, Andrew H. and Douglas Polley (1992). Learning While Innovating. Organization Science, Vol. 3, No. 1. pp. 92-117. von Hippel, Eric and Marcie Tyre (1995). How Learning by Doing Is Done: Problem Identification in Novel Process Equipment. Research Policy, Vol. 24, No. 1. pp. 1-12. von Hippel, Eric (1988). The Sources of Innovation. New York: Oxford University Press. von Hippel, E. (1994). Sticky Information and the Locus of Problem Solving: Implications for Innovation. Management Science, Vol. 40, No. 4. pp. 429-439.

Managing R&D Professionals; Communications Allen, Thomas J. (1977), Managing the Flow of Technology, Cambridge (MA): MIT Press, reprinted 1993, chapters 4-8. Allen, Thomas J. and Ralph Katz (1992), "Age, Education and the Technical Ladder", IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, Vol. 39, No. 3 (August). Ancona, Deborah G. and David F. Caldwell (1997). Making Teamwork Work: Boundary Management in Product Development Teams. Managing Strategic Innovation and Change, Tushman and Anderson (eds.). New York: Oxford University Press. Bailyn, Lotte (1985), "Autonomy in the Industrial R&D Lab", Human Resource Management, Vol. 24, No. 2, pp. 129-146. Katz, Ralph and Thomas J. Allen, "Project Performance and the Locus of Influence in the R&D Matrix", Academy of Management Journal, Vol. 28, No. 1, pp. 67-87. Katz, Ralph, Michael Tushman and Thomas J. Allen (1995), "The Influence of Supervisory Promotion and Network Location on Subordinate Careers in a Dual Ladder RD&E Setting", Management Science, Vol. 41, No. 5 (May), Pg. 848-863. Maidique, Modesto A. (1980), "Entrepreneurs, Champions, and Technical Innovation", Sloan Management Review (Winter), Vol. 21, No. 2 pp. 59-76, reprinted in Readings in the Management of Technological Innovation, eds. Tushman and Moore (1988), New York: Harper Collins. Roberts, Edward B. and Alan R. Fusfeld (1981). Staffing the Innovative Technology-Based Organization. Sloan Management Review, (Spring). Sakakibara, Kiyonori and D. Eleanor Westney (1992), "Japans Management of Global Innovation: Technology Management Crossing Borders", reprinted in Managing Strategic Innovation and Change, eds. Tushman and Anderson, New York: Oxford University Press. Shane, Scott and S. Venkataraman (1996), "Renegade and Rational Championing Strategies", Organization Studies, Vol. 17, No. 5, pp. 751-771.

Organizational Change; Adopting and Using Technology Leonard-Barton, D. (1988), "Implementation as Mutual Adaptation of Technology and Organization", Research Policy, Vol. 17, pp. 251-267.

Orlikowski, Wanda J. (1992), "The Duality of Technology: Rethinking the Concept of Technology in Organizations", Organization Science, Vol. 3, No. 3, pp. 398-427. Tyre, Marcie J. and Oscar Hauptman (1992), "Effectiveness of Organizational Responses to Technological Change in the Production Process", Organization Science, Vol. 3, No. 3, pp. 301321. Tyre, Marcie J. and Wanda J. Orlikowski (1994), "Windows of Opportunity: Temporal Patterns of Technological Adaptation in Organizations", Organization Science, Vol. 5, No. 1 (Feb), pp. 98-118. Tyre, Marcie J. and Wanda J. Orlikowski (1993), "Exploiting Opportunities for Technological Improvement in Organizations", Sloan Management Review (Fall). Van de Ven, Andrew H. and Marshall Scott Poole,(1995), "Explaining Development and Change in Organizations", Academy of Management Review, Vol 20, No. 3 (July). Organizational Economics of Technology Aghion, Philippe and Jean Tirole (1994), "The Management of Innovation", The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Nov '94, Pg. 1185-1209. Athey, Susan and A. Schmutzler (1995), "Product and Process Flexibility in an Innovative Environment", Rand Journal of Economics, Vol. 26(4), pp. 557-574. Athey, Susan and Scott Stern (1996), "An Empirical Framework for Testing Theories About Complementarity in Organizational Design", MIT Working paper. Brynjolfsson, Erik (1994), "Information Assets, Technology, and Organization", Management Science, Vol. 40, No. 12. Gibbons, Robert, "Game Theory and Garbage Cans", forthcoming in Nonrational Elements of Organizational Decision Making, eds. R. Stern and J. Halpern, Cornell University Press. Granovetter, Mark (1985), "Economic Action and Social Structure: The Problem of Embeddedness", American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 91, No. 3 (Nov), pp. 481-510. Holmstrom, Bengt (1989), "Agency Costs and Innovation", Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Vol. 12(3), pp. 305-327. Milgrom, P. and John Roberts (1990), "The Economics of Modern Manufacturing: Technology, Strategy and Organization", American Economic Review, pp. 511-528.

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