Call For Papers for the Special Issue, Deadline 15th, October, 2019
Guest Editors:
1.Steven Si, Zhejiang University/Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania (USA)
2. Shaker A. Zahra, University of Minnesota (USA)
3. Xiaobo Wu, Zhejiang University (China)
4. Don Jeng, National Chengchi University (Taiwan)
The world is undergoing a rapid economic shift as high technology firms in the long dominant economies of Europe and North America are increasingly being challenged by firms from emerging economies. Emerging economies are those low-income, high growth nations principally reliant on economic liberalization for their growth. This economic shift is such that today emerging economies and their firms are largely driving the world economic development. A prediction by many scholars is that by 2045 these high technology firms/entrepreneurial companies from emerging economies could dominate the world economy through a variety of new technologies and innovation. One of them is disruptive innovation technology/disruptive innovation based entrepreneurial companies.
Disruptive innovation theory was originally proposed by Christensen (1997) in his famous book The Innovator's Dilemma. He initially described a concept of “disruptive technology”, which mainly referred to the kinds of technology which were inferior in the main attributes existing among mainstream technology values, but focused on some neglected attributes alternatively. And as the technologies improved over time, they came slowly to surpass the dominant technologies in specific markets. The concept of disruptive technology suggests that the winning technology would not necessarily be radical or superior technology. A dominant design is generated through a process of social, economic and political negotiation and selection. Those companies who take actions first to adopt technologies that become dominant later usually survive and prosper, while those refuse to adopt those technologies would be likely to fail (Nair & Ahlstrom, 2003). Later, the concept of disruptive technology was extended into broader applications, such as disruptive product innovations and disruptive business model innovations (Christensen & Raynor, 2003; Markides, 2006; Hang et al., 2015). Over the past years, despite the growing importance of disruptive innovation in emerging economies academic researches still focus disproportionately on disruptive innovation in the mature economies. But, we know from the existing pool of research on disruptive innovation/entrepreneurial activities in emerging economies that there are unique differences in emerging economy firms. Further say that the unique differences lead a series of misunderstandings and misuses of disruptive innovation in the current research and practice .
This Special Issue seeks to platform the work of innovators, entrepreneurs and high technology managers and the likes who are in a position to offer valuable perspectives to this particular research area – disruptive innovation and disruptive innovation based entrepreneurship in the emerging economies. Topics include, but are not limited to:
1. Disruptive innovation and disruptive innovation based entrepreneurship in emerging economies. What are the differences of disruptive innovation between matured economies and emerging economies?
2. Do the mixed models of disruptive innovation/social entrepreneurship that typify many emerging economies generate positive impact for the change of society?
3. The rate of change in many emerging economies is particularly fast – how do firms successfully adjust to this change through disruptive innovation and innovative entrepreneurship endeavors?
4. Disruptive innovation in start-up enterprises, how does disruptive innovation enrich traditional technology management.
5. Does the concept of disruptive innovation differ in emerging economies from that of mature economies? What is the relative impact of that difference?
6. The relationship between disruptive innovation and technology company culture and values in emerging economies.
7. Disruptive innovation and innovative entrepreneurship are perceived as higher risk environments. If this is true does this higher risk generate greater creativity for the high technology companies?
8. What is the role of disruptive innovation related technologies in firms situated in economic climate in which low labor costs are perceived as a strong competitive advantage?
9. Does social disruptive innovation/entrepreneurship in emerging economies generate the intended positive result for the society?
10. Knowledge acquisition, entrepreneurship and disruptive innovation in digital/sharing economics.
11. What is the role of public policy to encourage disruptive innovation/ disruptive innovation based entrepreneurship in emerging economies?
Special Issue Workshop: In December 19, 2019, a workshop associated with the special issue will be occur in which those authors who have received an invitation to participate. The workshop will take place at Zhejiang University, Hangzhou China. Please submit your paper through the journal's submission system. All the submissions for publication in the special issue will be double-blind reviewed following the JETM’s review process. The deadline of the submission is on 15Th, October, 2019. The special issue could be published in 2020.
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