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Digital product innovation approaches in entrepreneurial firms – the role of entrepreneurs’ cognitive frames
- Source :
- Bunduchi, R, Crisan-Mitra, C, Salanta, I-I & Crisan, E 2022, ' Digital product innovation approaches in entrepreneurial firms – the role of entrepreneurs’ cognitive frames ', Technological Forecasting and Social Change, vol. 175, 121343 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2021.121343
- Publication Year :
- 2022
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2022.
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Abstract
- What explains how entrepreneurial firms organise digital product innovation? A unique characteristic of digital artefacts is their perpetual incompleteness, as they are “constantly in the making”. This study examines the role that this constant change that characterises digital artifacts plays in explaining how small, entrepreneurial firms manage digital product innovation. Drawing from research on founder identity and employing a cognitive frame theoretical lens, we conduct a multi-case study research design involving 15 founders of small size digital ventures. Our analysis finds that the entrepreneurs developed substantive interpretations about change in the content of their product, and about the nature of the process involved in the development and commercialisation of their products. Based on combinations between product change frames (minor versus major) and change in process frames (stable versus dynamic process frames), we identify four distinct approaches entrepreneurial firms take to manage digital product innovations. These approaches include: strategic innovation, experimental innovation, content innovation and learning experiments. Our findings contribute to product innovation research by developing a typology that provides a new conceptualisation of the approaches to manage innovation in digital products that takes into account the continuous change that characterises the content and process involved in digital artefacts.
- Subjects :
- Knowledge management
Digital artifact
business.industry
Process (engineering)
Product innovation
new product development
Identity (social science)
cognitive frame
Work in process
entrepreneurial firms
Management of Technology and Innovation
New product development
digital product innovation
Frame (artificial intelligence)
Product (category theory)
Business and International Management
business
individual actors
Applied Psychology
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 00401625
- Volume :
- 175
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Technological Forecasting and Social Change
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....3ff2aa17b63edab04007d6c1ae816dc8