Debating Disruptive Innovation
Few MIT Sloan Management Review articles garner as much attention as Andrew A. King and Baljir Baatartogtokh's "How Useful Is the Theory of Disruptive Innovation?" After surveying 79 industry experts, King and Baatartogtokh concluded that many of the cases cited as examples of disruptive innovation by Harvard Business School professor Clayton M. Christensen and his coauthor Michael E. Raynor did not fit four of the theory's key elements well. Here, three experts provide responses to continue the conversation.
"How Useful Is the Theory of Disruptive Innovation?" was the question raised by an article in the fall 2015 issue of MIT Sloan Management Review. In this issue, several more experts weigh in on the topic.