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Platform business models : incumbent adaptation perspectives subsequent to discontinuous changes
Mini Dissertation (MPhil)--University of Pretoria, 2020.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/80492 Platform business models : incumbent adaptation perspectives subsequent to discontinuous changes Myburgh, Suzanne ichelp@gibs.co.za Nanduri, Chandra Sekhara Srinivas UCTD Mini Dissertation (MPhil)--University of Pretoria, 2020. This thesis explored the impact of platforms on South African Banking, Telecom and Media industries, studying how the industry competes or collaborates with the phenomenon. Thus far, research focuses on non-existential threats, which allowed for long-term adaptation and scant evidence about incumbent adaptation under discontinuous changes. This research looked at two key questions: (a) how discontinuous changes impact incumbents; and (b) how incumbents adapt their exploration and exploitation balance subsequent to discontinuous changes. A qualitative methodology was applied to answer these research questions. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with leaders and senior management involved in the organisational sense-making process to understand the phenomenon. Interview findings were analysed using thematic analysis to generate insights and meanings from the adaptation experiences. This study contributes to the literature by combing incumbent adaptation, discontinuous changes, and organisational design aspects based on in-depth interviews. There are four main findings: one, platforms were perceived as a threat, affirming past research; two, leadership assumes 3–5 years for full-scale adaptation before entirely disrupted, supporting past research in the domain; three, contrary to the literature, which expects increased exploration during discontinuous changes, Incumbents balancing their exploration and exploitation initiatives is a significant revelation; four, the transformation journey was mostly led by Top Management Teams (TMT), who preferred to run these initiatives as a separate organisation. However, these Incumbents are yet to achieve the much-talked-about network effects and the scale compared to digital-first ventures; whether their approach yields result or not, no Oracle can tell. Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) MPhil Unrestricted 2021-06-22T12:29:17Z 2021-06-22T12:29:17Z 2021/04/14 2020 Mini Dissertation Nanduri, CSS 2020, Platform business models : incumbent adaptation perspectives subsequent to discontinuous changes, MPhil Mini Dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd <http://hdl.handle.net/2263/80492> http://hdl.handle.net/2263/80492 en © 2021 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | UCTD Platform business models : incumbent adaptation perspectives subsequent to discontinuous changes |
| title | Platform business models : incumbent adaptation perspectives subsequent to discontinuous changes |
| title_full | Platform business models : incumbent adaptation perspectives subsequent to discontinuous changes |
| title_fullStr | Platform business models : incumbent adaptation perspectives subsequent to discontinuous changes |
| title_full_unstemmed | Platform business models : incumbent adaptation perspectives subsequent to discontinuous changes |
| title_short | Platform business models : incumbent adaptation perspectives subsequent to discontinuous changes |
| title_sort | platform business models incumbent adaptation perspectives subsequent to discontinuous changes |
| topic | UCTD |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/80492 |