Embracing Digital Innovation in Incumbent Firms: How Volvo Cars Managed Competing Concerns
Embracing Digital Innovation in Incumbent Firms: How Volvo Cars Managed Competing Concerns
F. Svahn,L. Mathiassen,R. Lindgren
2017 · DOI: 10.25300/misq/2017/41.1.12
784 Citations
TLDR
It is argued that incumbent firms face four competing concerns—capability (existing versus requisite), focus (product versus process), collaboration (internal versus external), and governance (control versus flexibility)—and that these concerns are systemically interrelated.
