The mirroring hypothesis highlights the correspondence of design characteristics across different architectural levels and in this paper, we consider how may impact distribution national international innovation activities firms. We identify incremental modular innovations (as product architecture reinforcing innovations) along with radical that overturn existing architecture) to when adopt an ...

In order to develop an innovation in a large, mature organization, individuals often have to go underground, secretly undertaking ?bootleg? R&D activities that have no formal organizational support. As yet, there have been few studies that examine how such efforts shape the ability of an individual to generate innovations for their organization. We argue that these underground R&D efforts will ...

We propose a causal model to explain radical IS innovation. Based on the presence of a combination of predictors the model explains three types of radical IS innovation: (1) radical base innovations, i.e. breakthroughs in computing architectures; (2) radical process innovation; and (3) radical service innovation. We conduct a cross-sector field study to validate the model and identify which fac...

Innovation is often understood in terms such as radical versus incremental, or exploratory versus exploitative, yet these terms are used loosely with little precision as to the type or amount of ‘newness’ found in the innovation. We suggest that innovations be judged on the basis of original knowledge contribution and needs addressed. Based on this fundamental definition, we propose a formal ty...