How Can Great Firms Fail? Insights from the Hard Disk Drive Industry
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- Synopsis
- The disk drive industry is ideal for studying patterns of business failure, because rich data exist about it and because it has a particularly fast life cycle. In a matter of a few years, market segments, companies, and technologies emerge, mature, and decline. Companies with apparently sound management practices fall prey to disruptive innovators who grab their market share and precipitate their decline. This chapter outlines the history of the industry and shows how new entrants to the industry repeatedly unseat incumbents. This chapter was originally published as chapter 1 of "The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail."
- Copyright:
- 1997
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- Publisher:
- Harvard Business Publishing
- Date of Addition:
- 08/02/16
- Copyrighted By:
- HBS Press
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Nonfiction, Business and Finance
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.