(De-)Institutionalizing Organizational Competence: Olivetti's Transition from Mechanical to Electronic Technology
Speaker
Erwin Danneels
Department of Management,
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
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Abstract
A study of a competence-destroying technological transition at Italian office products firm Olivetti shows how a technological competence becomes institutionalized through the increasing convergence of its cognitive, moral, and pragmatic legitimacy, the power of organizational agents, and attainment and allocation of organizational resources. However, the reinforcing relationships between legitimacy, power, and resources may also be broken to aid in the de-institutionalization of an incumbent technology while placing the building blocks of its alternate. The study identifies four levers of technological transition: organizational separation, cooptation, exploiting contradictions and dissensus, and resource diversion. |
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- Type
- Research Seminar
- Programme
- Strategy & Entrepreneurship
- Date
- Tue. 18 May. 2010
- Time
- 11:00 - 12:30
- Location
- Mandeville Building T3-06
Coordinators
Professor of Management Interfaces between Organizations and Environment
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Professor of Strategic Management & Business Policy
Faculty of Economics and Business,
University of Amsterdam
Professor Applied Industrial Organization
Erasmus School of Economics (ESE),
Erasmus University Rotterdam
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