Innovation, Ruptures and Economic Cycles in Technology Platforms: Proposition of an analytical framework

The world has been going through many technological transformations, which affect not only the productive systems, but also the prevailing social and institutional spheres, creating a fragmented and hard to understand scenario. Different theories aim at evaluating some specific dimensions of the com...

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Authors: de Souza Ferreira, Wilquer Silvano, Vale, Gláucia Maria Vasconcellos, Bernardes, Patrícia
Format: article
Status:Published version
Publication Date:2021
Country:Brasil
Institution:Universidade Federal da Bahia (UFBA)
Repository:Organizações & Sociedade (Online)
Language:English
Portuguese
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.periodicos.ufba.br:article/33423
Online Access:https://periodicos.ufba.br/index.php/revistaoes/article/view/33423
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:disruptive innovation
creative destruction
economic cycles
technology platform
adaptive theory
inovação disruptiva
destruição criativa
ciclos econômicos
plataforma tecnológica
teoria adaptativa
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Summary:The world has been going through many technological transformations, which affect not only the productive systems, but also the prevailing social and institutional spheres, creating a fragmented and hard to understand scenario. Different theories aim at evaluating some specific dimensions of the complex process in course at the micro- meso- and macrolevels; however, none seems to encompass the multiple dimensions of the phenomenon concomitantly. To address such research gap, we resort to adaptive theory, which, on the one hand, turns to theoretical constructs on disruptive innovation, creative destruction and economic cycles; on the other, resorts to data and information on the emergence and proliferation of platforms for collaborative consumption. Our paper brings a unified theoretical conception, allowing a more comprehensive and integrated analysis of more than one dimension of the transformation process currently in course.