Associations for Disruptiveness: The Pirate Bay vs. Spotify

Most studies on disruptive innovations adopt technology-centric assumptions when explaining how industries are affected by a technology's creative destruction. This paper argues that the power of a technology lies in how it performatively associates with the cultural and social norms of the wid...

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Autores principales:	Remneland Wikhamn,Bjorn, Knights,David
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	Universidad Alberto Hurtado. Facultad de Economía y Negocios 2016
Materias:	Innovation disruptive technologies discontinuous innovation radical innovation digitalization translation Actor Network Theory music industry Spotify The Pirate Bay
Acceso en línea:	http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0718-27242016000300005
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Associations for Disruptiveness: The Pirate Bay vs. Spotify

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