Unpacking the Disruption Process: New Technology, Business Models, and Incumbent Adaptation
研究一家意大利新闻媒体出版商在互联网冲击下（1995-2017年）如何调整商业模式，分析驱动与阻碍因素、战略变化及封闭模式向开放平台转型的过程。
Abstract Despite the growing importance of digital transformation and the notion of disruptive innovation, strategy literature still lacks a more complete picture of how incumbent organizations adapt their business models after disruptions. This research sheds light on this important process by analyzing a major Italian news media publisher reacting to the advent of the internet and the emergence of new business models by entrants into the industry (1995–2017). We specifically examine: (1) the drivers and impeding factors of business model adaptation; (2) how incumbents change strategies to cope with different components of the disruption process; and (3) how a closed business model can be renewed to develop an open, platform‐based business model to seize external opportunities, incur lower costs, and fend off disruptors. This study contributes to the burgeoning literature on disruption, business models, and platforms.