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- Title
Strategic dalliances as an enabler for discontinuous innovation in slow clockspeed industries: evidence from the oil and gas industry.
- Authors
Noke, Hannah; Perrons, Robert K.; Hughes, Mathew
- Abstract
The concept of ‘strategic dalliances’– defined as non-committal relationships that companies can ‘dip in and out of,’ or dally with, while simultaneously maintaining longer-term strategic partnerships with other firms and suppliers – has emerged as a promising strategy by which organizations can create discontinuous innovations. But does this approach work equally well for every sector? Moreover, how can these links be effectively used to foster the process of discontinuous innovation? Toward assessing the role that industry clockspeed plays in the success or failure of strategic dalliances, we provide case study evidence from Twister BV, an upstream oil and gas technology provider, and show that strategic dalliances can be an enabler for the discontinuous innovation process in slow clockspeed industries. Implications for research and practice are discussed, and conclusions from our findings are drawn.
- Subjects
TECHNOLOGICAL innovations; PETROLEUM industry; BUSINESS failures; TWISTER BV; MINERAL industries; ENERGY industries
- Publication
R&D Management, 2008, Vol 38, Issue 2, p129
- ISSN
0033-6807
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1467-9310.2008.00505.x