A PROCESS-ORIENTED CASE INQUIRY TO MAP THE EVOLUTIONARY TRAJECTORY OF AN EMERGING TECHNOLOGY
Technological evolution is one of the driving forces behind industrial development and industry life cycles. The evolutionary process of any emerging technology, however, is a complex, dynamic and lengthy one that involves multi-faceted interactions and interdependencies among multiple stakeholders, from the entrepreneurial effort of nurturing new ideas, to intra-firm and/or inter-firm collaboration and integration in managing technological innovation, to the diffusion and commercialization of a new technology in certain institutional and social settings. To map the evolutionary trajectory of an emerging technology and understand what and why each stakeholder plays a certain role in an institutional framework and a complex value network, a holistic process-oriented case inquiry approach is useful because of its ability to deal with processural matters and a multiple stakeholder environment. This paper describes the process-oriented, holistic, case inquiry methodology which was used to investigate the development process of mobile payment technologies, and how high-tech entrepreneurial start-ups, incubator mobile operators and government regulators played a critical role in this process, in Korea. This research design is directed at providing a mechanism for connecting theories and empirical findings in a meaningful whole that enables investigators to conceptualize the complex relations between the units at different levels of analysis in real-life networked settings.
Process-oriented Case inquiry Emerging technology Mobile payments High-tech entrepreneurship Innovation diffusion
Marina Yue Zhang
ExecutiveAsia Associates Limited 26B, CITIC Building 19 Jianguomenwai Avenue, Chaoyang District Beijing, 100004, P.R.China
国际会议
Academy of Innovation and Entrepreneurship 2009(2009创新与创业国际学术会议)
北京
英文
44-57
2009-07-16（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）