Disruptiveness of innovations: measurement and an assessment of reliability and validity

Vijay Govindarajan, Praveen K. Kopalle · 2005 · Strategic Management Journal

Summary. This paper develops and validates a measurement scale for assessing how disruptive innovations are. The authors surveyed senior executives at 199 business units across 38 Fortune 500 companies and used statistical analysis to confirm their scale is reliable and valid. They show that disruptiveness is distinct from other innovation characteristics like radicalness, providing researchers with a tool to study why established companies struggle to develop truly disruptive innovations.

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Govindarajan, V., & Kopalle, P. K.. (2005). Disruptiveness of innovations: measurement and an assessment of reliability and validity. Strategic Management Journal. https://doi.org/10.1002/smj.511

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DOI: 10.1002/smj.511
Countries: United States
Regions: North America
Categories: innovation-theory, general-innovation
Added: 2026-04-28