- Record: found
- Abstract: found
- Article: found
Following Successfully: Followership and Technology Adoption
Abstract
Most firms in most countries find themselves taking up new technology in the wake of pioneers or first-movers. A central question is how (and whether) such firms can make a success of being followers--in the time-related sense of adopting subsequently. We take a novel approach to this question by drawing on the literature of leadership and followership within organisations. This literature employs characteristics in two dimensions to build a taxonomy of types of follower--in the hierarchical sense of working for and with an organisational superior. Using this approach, we generate hypotheses about the sorts of firms which are likely to prove more or less successful as early and later technology adopters. From the analysis, we are also able to identify ways in which the emerging followership literature requires strengthening.
Content
Author and article information
References
Ansoff H. I. and Stewart J.. 1967. . 'Strategies for a technology-based business'. . Harvard Business Review . , Nov-Dec;: 71––83. .
Kerin R., Varadarajan P. R. and Peterson R.. 1992. . 'First-mover advantage: a synthesis, conceptual framework, research propositions'. . Journal of Marketing . , Vol. 56: October;: 33––52. .
Schnaars S. P.. 1994. . Managing Imitation Strategies: How Later Entrants Seize Markets from Pioneers . , New York , NY : : The Free Press. .
Gort M. and Klepper S.. 1982. . 'Time paths in the diffusion of product innovations'. . Economic Journal . , Vol. 92:: 630––53. .
Gort M. and Wall R. A.. 1986. . 'The evolution of technologies and investment in innovation'. . Economic Journal . , Vol. 96:: 741––57. .
Hruby F. M.. 1999. . TechnoLeverage: Using the Pouter of Technology to Outperform the Competition . , p. 112 New York : : Amacom. .
Cohen W. M. and Levinthal D. A.. 1989. . 'Innovation and learning: the two faces of R&D'. . Economic Journal . , Vol. 99:: 569––96. .
Karshenas M. and Stoneman P. A.. 1993. . 'Rank, stock order and epidemic effects of the diffusion new process technologies'. . Band Journal of Economics . , Vol. 24((4)): 503––28. .
Geroski P. A.. 2000. . 'Models of technology diffusion'. . Research Policy . , Vol. 29:: 603––25. .
David P.. 1969. . A Contribution to the Theory of Diffusion . , (Research Memorandum No. 71). Center for Research in Economic Growth, Stanford University. .
David P.. 1991. . Behind the Diffusion Curve . , Oxford : : Westview Press. .
Davies S.. 1979. . The Diffusion of Process Innovations . , Cambridge : : Cambridge University Press. .
Karshenas M. and Stoneman P. A.. 1995. . “'Technological diffusion'. ”. In Handbook of the Economics of Innovation and Technical Change . , Edited by: Stoneman P. A.. Oxford : : Blackwell. .
Berg D. N.. 1998. . “'Resurrecting the muse: followership in organisations'. ”. In The Psychodynamics of Leadership . , Edited by: Klein E. B., Gabelnick F. and Herr P.. Madison : : Psychosocial Press. .
Hollander E. P.. 1978. . Leadership Dynamics: A Practical Guide to Effective Relationships . , New York : : Free Press. .
Kelley R. E.. 1988. . 'In praise of followers'. . Harvard Business Review . , Nov-Dec;: 142––48. .
Kelley R. E.. 1992. . The Power of Followership . , New York : : Doubleday. .
Rost J. C.. 1993. . Leadership for the Twenty-first Century . , Westport : : Praeger. .
Chaleff I.. 1995. . The Courageous Follower: Standing up to and for our Leaders . , San Francisco : : Berrett-Koehler. .
Daft R. L.. 1999. . Leadership: Theory and Practice . , Orlando : : The Dryden Press. .