The Topic Landscape of Disruption Research—A Call for Consolidation, Reconciliation, and Generalization

Hopp, Christian; Antons, David; Kaminski, Jermain; Salge, Torsten Oliver (2018). The Topic Landscape of Disruption Research—A Call for Consolidation, Reconciliation, and Generalization Journal of Product Innovation Management, 35(3), pp. 458-487. Wiley 10.1111/jpim.12440

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Using a natural language processing approach, the paper takes stock of extant disruption research and analyzes the full‐text corpus of 1078 journal articles published on disruption between 1975 and 2016. This yields a topic map composed of 84 distinct topics that present the overall topic structure of this dynamic field. Topic network analyses uncover the existence of two increasingly disconnected subnetworks centered around disruptive innovation at the macro level and radical innovation at the micro level. This disconnect is consequential, as both perspectives appear to be highly interdependent and conceptually constitute two sides of the same coin. To counteract the threat of growing fragmentation and reconnect these subnetworks, three research priorities are proposed, firmly grounded in a systematic literature analysis: (1) the need to consolidate peripheral and decoupled topics, (2) the necessity to reconcile competing terminologies and refocus the theoretical core, and (3) the imperative to strengthen the generalizable empirical evidence base.

Item Type:

Journal Article (Original Article)

Division/Institute:

Business School > Business Foundations and Methods

Name:

Hopp, Christian0000-0002-4095-092X;
Antons, David;
Kaminski, Jermain and
Salge, Torsten Oliver

ISSN:

0737-6782

Publisher:

Wiley

Language:

English

Submitter:

Christian Hopp

Date Deposited:

22 Sep 2020 08:57

Last Modified:

14 Oct 2021 02:18

Publisher DOI:

10.1111/jpim.12440

ARBOR DOI:

10.24451/arbor.11990

URI:

https://arbor.bfh.ch/id/eprint/11990

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