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Article: From creative destruction to creative appropriation: A comprehensive framework
Title | From creative destruction to creative appropriation: A comprehensive framework |
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Keywords | Creative destruction Kuhnian anomaly E-hailing Creative appropriation Complementary assets |
Issue Date | 2020 |
Publisher | Elsevier BV. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.elsevier.com/locate/respol |
Citation | Research Policy, 2020, v. 49 n. 7, p. 1-15 How to Cite? |
Abstract | This paper introduces a conceptual modification of Schumpeter's concept of creative destruction. Identifying a Kuhnian anomaly in a case of creative destruction in the ‘new economy’, we analyze a case study of the Chinese e-hailing firm DiDi Chuxing to show that this firm used a strategy we term ‘creative appropriation’, whereby a new firm utilizes incumbent firms’ complementary assets but without cooperating with the incumbent, to disrupt a market. This exploitation of complementary assets is based on recombining prevailing technological infrastructure(s) as well as flexible business models that facilitate open innovation. Employing documentary analysis, participant-observation, face-to-face interviews with informants, and a quantitative survey, the study finds that DiDi deployed its e-hailing app to disrupt the taxi market in Xi'an, China (as it did elsewhere in China) as a means of creative destruction, appropriating human-resource-based complementary assets (social and personal reputations, tacit knowledge, and connections) of taxi companies in Xi'an, first to dominate e-hailing in the taxi industry and then to destroy that industry by shifting its focus to private cars. |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/299134 |
ISSN | 2023 Impact Factor: 7.5 2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 3.219 |
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dc.contributor.author | XING, JL | - |
dc.contributor.author | Sharif, N | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2021-04-28T02:26:38Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2021-04-28T02:26:38Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2020 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Research Policy, 2020, v. 49 n. 7, p. 1-15 | - |
dc.identifier.issn | 0048-7333 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/299134 | - |
dc.description.abstract | This paper introduces a conceptual modification of Schumpeter's concept of creative destruction. Identifying a Kuhnian anomaly in a case of creative destruction in the ‘new economy’, we analyze a case study of the Chinese e-hailing firm DiDi Chuxing to show that this firm used a strategy we term ‘creative appropriation’, whereby a new firm utilizes incumbent firms’ complementary assets but without cooperating with the incumbent, to disrupt a market. This exploitation of complementary assets is based on recombining prevailing technological infrastructure(s) as well as flexible business models that facilitate open innovation. Employing documentary analysis, participant-observation, face-to-face interviews with informants, and a quantitative survey, the study finds that DiDi deployed its e-hailing app to disrupt the taxi market in Xi'an, China (as it did elsewhere in China) as a means of creative destruction, appropriating human-resource-based complementary assets (social and personal reputations, tacit knowledge, and connections) of taxi companies in Xi'an, first to dominate e-hailing in the taxi industry and then to destroy that industry by shifting its focus to private cars. | - |
dc.language | eng | - |
dc.publisher | Elsevier BV. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.elsevier.com/locate/respol | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | Research Policy | - |
dc.subject | Creative destruction | - |
dc.subject | Kuhnian anomaly | - |
dc.subject | E-hailing | - |
dc.subject | Creative appropriation | - |
dc.subject | Complementary assets | - |
dc.title | From creative destruction to creative appropriation: A comprehensive framework | - |
dc.type | Article | - |
dc.identifier.email | XING, JL: xinglz@connect.hku.hk | - |
dc.description.nature | link_to_subscribed_fulltext | - |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1016/j.respol.2020.104060 | - |
dc.identifier.scopus | eid_2-s2.0-85087921077 | - |
dc.identifier.hkuros | 322215 | - |
dc.identifier.volume | 49 | - |
dc.identifier.issue | 7 | - |
dc.identifier.spage | 1 | - |
dc.identifier.epage | 15 | - |
dc.identifier.isi | WOS:000564680000012 | - |
dc.publisher.place | Netherlands | - |