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How firms fail to act on a disruption and fall as a result: the case of AT&T in 2005

Posted in Case study, Theory, tagged , , , on April 20, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

A central tenet of innovation research is that firms often fail to act on a disruption that threatens their business, and falter as a result. A case in point is AT&T, the 120 year-old subsidiary of Bell Telephone Company, child of Alexander Graham Bell, an American icon. In 2005, AT&T was sold to SBC Communications. It was [...]

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The loss of creative capacity as a source of organizational decline

Posted in Theory, tagged , , , , , on April 13, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

An interesting way to think about how organizations deal with disruptions in their environment, and what ultimately causes their demise, is to consider the thesis of Arnold J Toynbee on the decline of civilizations and apply it to the world of organizations. Toynbee is the author of “A study in history“, the landmark book on the [...]

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