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| Author: | Fleming L. |
| Title: | Finding the organizational sources of technological breakthroughs: the story of Hewlett-Packard's thermal ink-jet |
| Journal: | Industrial and Corporate Change
2002 : NOV, VOL. 11:5, p. 1059-1084 |
| Index terms: | Technology R&D Products Equipment Companies Case studies |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | Which firms are more likely to invent technological breakthroughs, such as Hewlett-Packard's invention of the thermal ink-jet? This study inducts theory for this question by interpreting the history of the breakthrough as a recombinant and boundedly rational search process. The firm increased its odds of success by generating many high-variance inventive trials, it mixed and juxtaposed diverse technologies, professions and experience, managed by objective and collocated. The firm exploited this variance with effective selection processes, strong socialization norms, deep experience with the components of invention, rapid prototyping and testing, and scientific knowledge and method. |
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