Firms' information sources and the technology life cycle Online publication date: Fri, 22-May-2009
by Gerhard Rosegger
International Journal of Technology Management (IJTM), Vol. 12, No. 5/6, 1996
Abstract: Revolutionary advances in technology have led to many exuberant assessments of the benefits firms could derive from having economical access to ever larger volumes of information. In most of these pronouncement no attention has been paid to differentiating among sources and types of information, or to examining under what conditions increased information flows, as against internally-generated knowledge, actually produce competitive advantages for firms. Unqualified approval of the 'information revolution' has not, so far, been supported by many empirical investigations of its actual effects, especially with respect to firms' ability to generate and implement advances in their basic technologies. Such investigations may derive guidance from a taxonomic framework suggested here that recognizes differences among an individual firm's sources for enhancing its technical capabilities, as well as changes in the relative significance of these sources over the technology life cycle.
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