March 1, 1990Administrative Science QuarterlyOpen Access

Architectural Innovation: The Reconfiguration of Existing Product Technologies and the Failure of Established Firms

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Generational innovation reconfigures an established technical system without altering underlying elements, triggering unexpected organizational and competitive consequences.
Empirical study of the semiconductor photolithographic alignment equipment industry tracks competitive history, revealing major shifts in industry leadership across product eras.
Highlights that traditional categorization of incremental innovation versus radical innovation is fundamentally misleading, failing to explain the collapse of established firms.

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Empirical study demonstrates competitive failure from generational innovation in photolithographic alignment equipment firms, highlighting limitations of incremental and radical categorizations.

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Henderson et al. (1990) studied this question.

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Empirical study demonstrates competitive failure from generational innovation in photolithographic alignment equipment firms, highlighting limitations of incremental and radical categorizations.

Architectural Innovation: The Reconfiguration of Existing Product Technologies and the Failure of Established Firms

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