Sean T. Hsu andSusan K. Cohen Disruptive Innovation and the Incumbent Dilemma We have entered an era of continual disruption in which incumbents’ inabilities to successfully appraise disruptive innovations have contributed to their shrinking average lifespan....
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Susan K. Cohen is associate professor of management at Katz Graduate School of Business, University of Pittsburgh. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota. She studies how firms enhance their performance (innovation output and quality, survival, and profitability) through research and development activities. She is particularly interested in how firms manage tensions between acquiring, protecting, and leveraging their technological knowledge by structuring internal and external capabilities.
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