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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
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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.