Qualitative Research on Incumbents’ Responses to Discontinuous Technologies: Distilling an Integrative Framework of Context
Published online on February 18, 2026
Abstract
Journal of Management, Volume 52, Issue 6, Page 2166-2206, July 2026.
Scholars have long and effectively used qualitative-inductive methodologies to understand the heterogeneous responses of established organizations—so-called incumbents—to emerging discontinuous technologies. However, after nearly 30 years of nuanced, ...
Scholars have long and effectively used qualitative-inductive methodologies to understand the heterogeneous responses of established organizations—so-called incumbents—to emerging discontinuous technologies. However, after nearly 30 years of nuanced, ...