Solving Paradox by Increasing Technological Capacity: A Critique of the Concept of Business Model Innovation at TikTok
评论了Ma和Hu关于字节跳动与TikTok的文章，认为TikTok的成功并非源于商业模式创新，而是字节跳动克服了新兴市场企业国际化面临的三大障碍，并指出TikTok案例启示人们可通过先进技术提升能力来解决悖论性紧张。
ABSTRACT This paper comments on Yulun Ma and Yue Hu's (2021) recent article ‘Business Model Innovation and Experimentation in Transforming Economies: ByteDance and TikTok’. It argues that TikTok's international success is not due to so-called business model innovation; instead, it is because ByteDance has overcome three major hurdles facing emerging market firms pursuing internationalization. It also posits that the case of TikTok offers inspiration for theorizing paradox, namely, individuals and organizations can solve paradoxical tensions by increasing capacity through the use of advanced technologies.