The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Strategic Management

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Dominant Design

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-94848-2_387-1
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Abstract

The notion of dominant designs in a product class has been used by scholars and practitioners of technology management to illustrate a set of product design features that emerge and achieve wide acceptance in a new product market. The emergence of a dominant design occurs during the period in which new combinations of ideas, knowledge and resources are being created and contested by many new entrants in a new product market. During the race to define a dominant design, a firm’s survival is thus dependent upon the successful alignment of the firm’s product strategy with rapidly evolving market requirements.

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Product Market Product Innovation Incumbent Firm Product Lifecycle Technological Trajectory 
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Authors and Affiliations

  1. 1.Beedie School of BusinessVancouverCanada