Information and communication technology innovations: radical and disruptive?
Summary. This paper examines how well disruption theory and other innovation classifications explain ICT innovations in communications. The author reviews multiple innovation frameworks and finds that while internet and wireless technologies show frequent disruptive changes, the disruption concept has limited applicability in the converged communications sector. Different analysts reach contradictory conclusions because they make different analytical choices, and findings from single firms cannot be reliably generalized.
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Latzer, M.. (2009). Information and communication technology innovations: radical and disruptive?. New Media & Society. https://doi.org/10.1177/1461444809102964
Latzer, Michael. “Information and communication technology innovations: radical and disruptive?.” New Media & Society, 2009. https://doi.org/10.1177/1461444809102964.
Latzer, Michael. 2009. “Information and communication technology innovations: radical and disruptive?.” New Media & Society. https://doi.org/10.1177/1461444809102964.
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- 10.1177/1461444809102964
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- innovation-theory, broadband-and-digital, general-innovation
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- 2026-04-28