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Week-5 Bibliography of course project (Apple Inc)

Name: Nikhil Vasani

Course: NETW-583

Professor:  Dexter francis

Devry University

May-29, 2018

Apple Inc.

Boudreau, K., & Lakhani, K. (2009). How to manage outside innovation. MIT Sloan management review, 50(4), 69.

Boudreau and Lakhani examined Apple’s ability to advance technologically in future. They found that unlike Microsoft, Apple Inc. has an upper hand to improve technically. That is because Apple believes a lot that technological advancements can only be realized if you incorporate the minds of the open-source community.

Amit, R., & Zott, C. (2010). Business model innovation: Creating value in times of change.

Amit and Zott studied the need for managers and entrepreneurs to work together in realizing technological advancement. According to them, Apple INC. has an upper hand to realize technological advancement because its management is highly supportive to entrepreneurs.

Garcia, R., & Calantone, R. (2002). A critical look at technological innovation typology and innovativeness terminology: a literature review. Journal of product innovation management, 19(2), 110-132.

The two scholars focused on the impact of marketing on innovation. According to them, for technological advancement to be realized, there should be efficient structures to market the already existing innovation, which they believe Apple INC. posses.

Prahalad, C. K., & Ramaswamy, V. (2003). The new frontier of experience innovation. MIT Sloan management review, 44(4), 12-18.

The two believe that technological innovation must shift its focus away from products/services to co-create unique and important value for individual customers. According to them, Apple complies with this philosophy, and so is more likely to advance.

Njenga, J. K., & Fourie, L. C. H. (2010). The myths about e‐learning in higher education. British journal of educational technology, 41(2), 199-212.

Njenga and Fourie focused on the effects technological users usually incur as a result of the technological innovators not prioritizing their strategies on their welfares. According to them, for technological innovation to be helpful, it must factor in the customers’ concerns. They cite Apple Inc. as one of the technology firms that factor in the users’ welfares.

Snow, C. C., Fjeldstad, Ø. D., Lettl, C., & Miles, R. E. (2011). Organizing continuous product development and commercialization: the collaborative community of firms model. Journal of Product Innovation Management, 28(1), 3-16.

The four scholars examined the steps that technology firms have made: from being stand-alone firms to community-based firms. According to them, this is a good trend that has seen firms like Apple grow and is likely to propel them even further.

Schilling, M. A. (2010). Strategic management of technological innovation. Tata McGraw-Hill Education.

According to Schilling, for a technology firm to advance its innovative capacity, it must employ critical management strategies such as working with “outsiders.” So since Apple Inc. has historically incorporated outside minds, it has the upper hand to advance technologically.

Chiesa, V., & Frattini, F. (2011). Commercializing technological innovation: Learning from failures in high‐tech markets. Journal of Product Innovation Management, 28(4), 437-454.

The two scholars focused on commercialization (learning from failures) in the technological field. According to them, successful innovative firms learn from their failures. They cited Apple as an example of firms which learns from its failures and so it has upper chances to improve.

Shane, H. C., Laubscher, E. H., Schlosser, R. W., Flynn, S., Sorce, J. F., & Abramson, J. (2012). Applying technology to visually support language and communication in individuals with autism spectrum disorders. Journal of autism and developmental disorders, 42(6), 1228-1235.

The six scholars looked at role technological firms in improving the lives of the vulnerable members of the society. According to them, the technology firm which makes discoveries aimed at improving lives of such people, have the upper hand of developing. They cited Apple as one of them as it developed an app to help people with autism.

Teece, D. J. (2010). Business models, business strategy, and innovation. Long range planning, 43(2-3), 172-194.

Teece focused on the model which technological firms use to add value to their targeted consumers and then convert that value into profit. According to him, the firm with the best conversion business model is more likely to advance. He cites Apple Inc. as one of them.

Kenney, M., & Pon, B. (2011). Structuring the smartphone industry: is the mobile internet OS platform the key? Journal of Industry, Competition, and Trade, 11(3), 239-261.

The two scholars studied the ability of technology firms to convince customers to embrace the new technological advancement. According to them, for a technology firm to advance, it must be able to convince its potential customers to leave their former live styles and embrace the new one. According to them, Apple Inc. has been doing well in this area, and therefore, it is more likely to advance even further.

Abraham, S. (2013). Will business model innovation replace strategic analysis? Strategy & Leadership, 41(2), 31-38.

Abraham examined the impact of corporate strategy in enabling firms to stay competitive and add value to customers’ lives. According to him, employing too many corporative strategies prevents a technological firm from adding value to its customers need. And such firms do not advance as much as those that put their customers’ interests first. So, according to him, firms such as Apple Inc., which treasures adding value to their customers’ lives are more likely to advance in future.