Study on technological discontinuities and strategic change~ffrom the aspect of combining technology and strategy

Abstract

Compared with the type of gradual technology development, technological discontinuities are more profound to companies. Since the 80's of 20 century, scholars have started noticing the phenomenon of technological discontinuities, and putting forward many different points. Facing the new economic ages and international competition, companies also must resolve the problem of technological discontinuities. However, among the rich literatures about technological discontinuities, there is little study from the aspect of strategic change. From the point of strategy, this paper wants to analyze technological discontinuities and how to reply it. By induced the theory of technological discontinuity and research on strategy change, this paper brings them into united frame, and analyses the relationship between them. The combination of technology and strategy management is beneficial to understand the technological development stage and the process of strategy changing. Based on the characteristic analysis of technological discontinuities & strategic change, the conclusion of the paper is that strategic change may survive the technological discontinuities; the disruption to the market of the new technology haven't appeared completely in the period of technological discontinuities, so it is a good opportunity to change the strategy. At last, some shortcomings of the paper and suggestions for future research are presented.