Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction
Part One : WHY GREAT COMPANIES CAN FAIL
1 How Can Great Firms Fail? Insights from the Hard Disk Drive Industry
2 Value Networks and the Impetus to Innovate
3 Disruptive Technological Change in the Mechanical Excavator Industry
4 What Goes Up, Can’t Go Down
Part Two: MANAGING DISRUPTIVE TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE
5 Give Responsibility for Disruptive Technologies to Organizations Whose Customers Need Them
6 Match the Size of the Organization to the Size of the Market
7 Discovering New and Emerging Markets
8 How to Appraise Your Organization’s Capabilities and Disabilities
9 Performance Provided, Market Demand, and the Product Life Cycle
10 Managing Disruptive Technological Change: A Case Study
11 The Dilemmas of Innovation: A Summary

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