Adner, Ron, Chen, Jianqing, and Zhu, Feng. “Frenemies in Platform Markets: Heterogeneous profit focus as a driver of asymmetric compatibility choices.” Management Science. Forthcoming
Adner, Ron and Feiler, Daniel. 2019. “Interdependence, Perception, and Investment Choices: An Experimental Approach to Decision Making in Ecosystems.” Organization Science. 30(1): 1-17.
Adner, Ron. 2017. “Ecosystem as Structure: An Actionable Construct for Strategy.” Journal of Management. 43(1): 39-58.
Van de Ven, Andrew & Adner, Ron & Barley, Stephen & Dougherty, Deborah & Fountain, Jane & Hargadon, Andrew & Kamlet, Mark & Karlin, Beth & Schilling, Melissa. "Increasing benefits & reducing social costs of technological innovations." Behavioral Science & Policy, vol. 3 no. 1, 2017, pp. 92-103.
Adner, Ron, Ruiz- Aliseda, Francisco, and Zemsky, Peter. 2016. “Specialist vs. Generalist Positioning: Demand heterogeneity, technology scalability, and endogenous market segmentation,” Strategy Science. 1(3): 184-206.
Adner, Ron and Kapoor, Rahul. 2016. “Right Tech, Wrong Time.” Harvard Business Review. 94(11): 60-67. Reprinted in HBR's 10 Must Reads 2018: The Definitive Management Ideas of the Year; Reprinted in IEEE Engineering Management Review. 2017 45(4): 81-85.
Adner, Ron and Kapoor, Rahul. 2016. “Innovation ecosystems and the pace of substitution: Reexamining technology S-curves” Strategic Management Journal. 37(4):625-648.
Adner, Ron. 2016. Navigating the Leadership Challenges of Innovation Ecosystems. Sloan Management Review. 58(1):141-146.
Adner, Ron and Peter Zemsky (2016) “Diversification and Performance: Linking Relatedness, Market Structure, and the Decision to Diversify.” Strategy Science 1(1):32-55.
Klingebiel, Ronald and Adner, Ron. 2015. “Real Options Logic Revisited: Disentangling Sequential Investment, Low-Commitment Strategies, and Resource Re-Allocation Reality.” Academy of Management Journal. 58(1): 221-241.
Adner, Ron, Felipe Csaszar and Peter Zemsky. 2014. “Positioning on a Multi-Attribute Landscape” Management Science. 60(11): 2794-2815.
Adner, Ron, Oxley, Joanne, and Silverman, Brian. 2013. “Collaboration and Competition in Business Ecosystems.” Advances in Strategic Management 31: 9-18.
Kapoor, Rahul and Ron Adner. 2012. “What firms make vs. what they know: How firms’ production and knowledge boundaries affect competitive advantage in the face of technological change.” Organization Science, Special issue on Organizational Economics and Organizational Capabilities. 23(5): 1227–1248.Selected for Best Paper Proceedings of the Academy of Management, 2008; Runner-up, INFORMS-ISA Best Inudstry Studies Paper Award (best paper across all 843 papers published in 2012 across all 12 INFORMS journals)
Adner, Ron and Snow, Daniel. 2010. “Old Technology Responses to New Technology Threats: Demand heterogeneity and technology retreats.” Industrial and Corporate Change. 19(5):1655-1675.
Adner, Ron and Kapoor, Rahul. 2010. “Value creation in innovation ecosystems: How the structure of technological interdependence affects firm performance in new technology generations.” Strategic Management Journal.31(3): 306-333.
Adner, Ron and Snow, Daniel. 2010. “Bold retreat: A new strategy for old technologies.” Harvard Business Review. 88(3): 76-81. Reprinted in Harvard Business Review on Aligning Technology with Strategy, Harvard Business Press, 2011.
Adner, Ron Adner, Laszlo Polos, Michael D. Ryall, and Olav Sorenson. 2009. "The case for formal theory " Academy of Management Review. 34(2):201-208.
Adner, Ron and Levinthal, Daniel. 2008. “Doing versus seeing: Acts of exploitation and perceptions of exploration.” Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal. 1(2):43-52.
Adner, Ron. 2007. “Real options and resource re-allocation processes.” Advances in Strategic Management. 24: 363-272.
Adner, Ron and Zemsky, Peter. 2006 “A demand-based perspective on sustainable competitive advantage.” Strategic Management Journal. 27(3): 215-239.
Adner, Ron. 2006. “Match your innovation strategy to your innovation ecosystem”, Harvard Business Review, 84(4): 98-107.
Adner, Ron and Zemsky, Peter. 2005. “Disruptive technologies and the emergence of competition.” Rand Journal of Economics,36(2): 229-254.
Adner, Ron. 2004. “A demand-based perspective on technology life cycles” Advances in Strategic Management.. 21: 25-43.
Adner, Ron and Levinthal, Daniel. 2004. “What is not a real option: Identifying boundaries for the application of real option to business strategy.” Academy of Management Review. 29(1):74-85. Reprinted in Real Options and International Investment, Alan M. Rugman and Jing Li (eds.), Edward Elgar Publishing. 2005; Reprinted in Technology Strategy and Innovation Management, Michael Leiblein and Arvids Zeidonis (eds.) Edward Elgar Publishing. 2011.
Adner, Ron and Levinthal, Daniel. 2004. “Real options and real tradeoffs.” Academy of Management Review, 29(1):120-126.
Adner, Ron and Helfat, Constance. 2003. "Corporate effects and dynamic managerial capabilities.” Strategic Management Journal. 24(10): 1011-1027.
Adner, Ron. 2002. “When are technologies disruptive: A demand-based view of the emergence of competition” Strategic Management Journal. 23: 667-688.
Adner, Ron and Levinthal, Daniel. 2002. “The emergence of emerging technology.” California Management Review. 45(1): 50-66.
Adner, Ron and Levinthal, Daniel. 2001. “Demand heterogeneity and technology evolution: Implications for product and process innovation.” Management Science. 47(5): 611-628.
Rangan, Subramanian and Adner, Ron. 2001. “Profits and the internet: Seven misconceptions.” Sloan Management Review. 42(4): 44-53. Reprinted in Strategies for E-Business Success, Erik Brynjolfsson and Glen Urban (eds.)Wiley. 2001.
BOOKS
Adner, Ron. 2012. The Wide Lens: A new strategy for innovation. Penguin/Portfolio: New York.
Paperback, 2013, The Wide Lens: What successful innovators see that others miss. Awarded Strategy and Business Best Business Books of 2012 Awarded Risk Management Top 5 Business Books of 2012 Finalist Academy of Management Terry Book Award, 2013 Translated into Chinese (simple and complex), Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Latvian
Adner, Ron, Oxley, Joanne, and Silverman, Brian (Co-editors).2013. Collaboration and Competition in Business Ecosystems. Advances in Strategic Management Vol 31.
WORKING PAPERS AND WORK IN PROGRESS
“Strategizing in the Face of Interdependence: An experimental approach” (with Daniel Feiler)
Strategy Science special issue on “Strategy in the Digital Age” (with co-editors Phanish Puranam and Feng Zhu)
“Fostering Socially-Desirable Government Venture Funding Activity: A real options lens” (with Anna Scedrova, Robert Morgan, and Luigi de Luca)
“Wide Lens for the Social Sector” (with Margaret Hanson)
OTHER PUBLICATIONS (SELECTED)
Adner, Ron, “Many companies still don’t know how to compete in the digital age. Harvard Business Review. March 28, 2016.
Adner, Ron “Solving the Electric Car Puzzle.” May 29, 2012. The Wall Street Journal.
Adner, Ron, “Apple’s New Fraud Problem: Cracked walls and broken promises.” March 21, 2012, Wired (online)
Adner, Ron, “From Walkman to iPod: What Music Tech Teaches Us About Innovation.” March 5, 2012, The Atlantic (online)
Adner, Ron, “The Innovator’s Blindspot: Even your best ideas will fail if your partners don’t innovate too.” Feb 27, 2012. Fast Company (online)
Adner, Ron and Vincent, William, “Get Ready for Ads in Books”, August 19, 2010, The Wall Street Journal.
Adner, Ron and Vincent, William, “iPad: A dubious bet for publishers.” Nov 29, 2010, Forbes
Adner, Ron and Vincent, William, “Blackberry’s Next Killer App.” June 18, 2010, Forbes
Adner, Ron and Vincent, William, “Kindle is Dead – Long Live Kindle.” August 12, 2010. Huffington Post.
Adner, Ron and Kapoor, Rahul. 2007. “Managing transitions in the semiconductor lithography ecosystem.” Solid State Technology, 50th Anniversary Issue. 50(11):s20.
Kapoor, Rahul and Adner, Ron. 2007. “Technology interdependence and the evolution of semiconductor lithography.” Solid State Technology, 50th Anniversary Issue. 50(11): 51-54.
Adner, Ron and Levinthal, Daniel. 2000. “Technological speciation and the emergence of emerging technologies” in Day and Schoemaker, Wharton on Emerging Technologies, John Wiley Press.
Adner, Ron. 1999. “Innovation beyond ideas: Setting expectations for innovation” Mastering Strategy Series. The Financial Times October 18. Reprinted as “Innovation beyond ideas: expectations in managing technology,” in Mastering Strategy: The compelte MBA companion in Strategy. Tim Dickson (Ed.) Financial Times/ Prentice Hall. 2000:London; Translated and reprinted in: Chinese, Dutch, German, Polish, and Russian.