Beating Success Traps and Core Rigidities how firms can avoid becoming fatally tied to their current ways of doing business.

Core Materials:
Articles:
, 20(2), Leonard Barton, D. (1992). Core capabilities and core rigidities: a paradox in managing new product
development. Strategic Management Journal, 13, 111-125
Miller, D. (1992). The Icarus Paradox: How exceptional companies bring about their own downfall.
Business Horizons, 35, 2435
Teece, D., Peteraf, M., and Leih, S. (2016). Dynamic Capabilities and Organizational Agility: Risk,
uncertainty, and strategy in the innovation economy. California Management Review, 58(4), 13-35 Wang, C., Senaratne, C., and Rafiq, M. (2015). Success Traps, Dynamic Capabilities and Firm
Performance. British Journal of Management, 26, 26-44 Textbook:
Ch.4
Lectures:
Term 1 Weeks 4 and 5
Workshops:
Parts of Workshop 3
Some options for wider reading:
Amason, A. C., & Mooney, A. C. (2008). The Icarus paradox revisited: how strong performance sows the seeds of dysfunction in future strategic decision-making. Strategic Organization, 6(4), 407434.
Christensen, C. M., & Overdorf, M. (2000). Meeting the Challenge of Disruptive Change. (cover story). Harvard Business Review, 78(2), 6676.
Lucas, H.C., & Goh, J.M. (2009). Disruptive technology: How Kodak missed the digital photography revolution. The Journal of Strategic Information Systems, 18(1), 46-55.
Rhee, M., & Kim, T. (2015) Great Vessels Take a Long Time to Mature: Early Success Traps and Competences in Exploitation and Exploration. Organization Science 26(1), 180-197.
Williamson, P. J. (2016). Building and Leveraging Dynamic Capabilities: Insights from Accelerated Innovation in China. Global Strategy Journal, 6(3), 197210.