Joshua Gans
To Disrupt or Not to Disrupt?
Disruption isn’t always the right strategy for startups. It’s a choice.
MIT Sloan Management Review, 2020
¿De qué se trata?
Compete versus cooperate: Start-ups have alternatives to disruption when bringing their products to market.
Recommendation
Market disrupters enter a market with a new or cheaper product hoping to capitalize on a weakness found in a traditional business – perhaps customers looking for cheaper or more convenient alternatives. Disruption is a choice, however, and opting to work with a legacy company can offer substantial benefits. Entrepreneurs should consider the strategies outlined by Joshua Gans in MIT Sloan Management Review. Gans offers a logical approach for entrepreneurs to weighing alternative, and often more successful, strategies to the path of disruption.
Summary
About the Author
Joshua Gans is a professor of strategic management and holds the Jeffrey S. Skoll Chair of Technical Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto.
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