Toward a systematic framework for research on dominant designs, technological innovations, and industrial change |
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Authors: | Johann Peter Murmann Koen Frenken |
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Institution: | a Australian Graduate School of Management, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia b Urban and Regional Research Center Utrecht (URU), Section of Economic Geography, Faculty of Geosciences, Utrecht University, P.O. Box 80115, NL-3508TC Utrecht, The Netherlands |
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Abstract: | The concept of a dominant design has taken on a quasi-paradigmatic status in analyses of the link between technological and industrial dynamics. A review of the empirical literature reveals a variety of interpretations about some aspects of the phenomenon such as its underlying causal mechanisms and its level of analysis. To stimulate further progress in empirical research on dominant designs, we advocate a standardization of terminology by conceptualizing products as complex artifacts that evolve in the form of a nested hierarchy of technology cycles. Such a nested complex system perspective provides both unambiguous definitions of dominant designs (stable core components that can be stable interfaces) and inclusion of multiple levels of analysis (system, subsystems, components). We introduce the concept of an operational principle and offer a systematic definition of core and peripheral subsystems based on the concept of pleiotropy. We also discuss how the proposed terminological standardization can stimulate cumulative research on dominant designs. |
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Keywords: | Dominant designs Evolution of artifacts Architecture of complex systems Product life cycle |
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