Management of Convergence in Innovation - Strategies and Capabilities for Value Creation Beyond Blurring Industry Boundaries

Preface

Contents Overview

Table of Contents

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1 Introduction

1.1 Background and motivation

1.2 Research problem

1.3 Research objective

1.4 Research design

1.5 Outline of the thesis

2 Fundamentals of convergence and innovation

2.1 Convergence as a managerial issue

2.2 Determining the phenomenon

2.3 Innovative dynamics of convergence

3 An evolutionary perspective on convergence

3.1 Idiosyncratic dynamics

3.2 Augmenting stages of convergent rule change

3.3 Coevolutionary change of strategic vectors

3.4 Patterns of endogenous transition

3.5 Exogenous dynamics and industrial inflections

3.6 An integrated framework of evolutionary dynamics

3.7 From challenge to practice

4 Capabilities for coevolutionary contingency

4.1 Aligning horizontally for developing vertically

4.2 Orchestrating ecosystems and reciprocal incentives

4.3 Protecting complementarity against redundancy

4.4 Reorganizing the firm for convergence

4.5 Reinventing the firm for convergence

4.6 Managerial commonalities

5 Managing through cycles of convergence

5.1 Deriving managerial guidelines

5.2 Cyclical determinants of convergence

5.3 Transfer and application of the cyclical model

6 Conclusions

6.1 Discussion of results

6.2 Outlook

Appendix

References

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