My web presence had grown into a patchwork over nearly twenty years. My main site at professor-murmann.net was a set of hand-built static HTML pages. My books had their own WordPress site. And the bulk of my writing - hundreds of entries across my teaching and research blogs, a curated collection of Charles Tilly's methodological… More »
My Notes — Innovation
Research Focus on Auto Industry
My research team is interested in studying how to improve strategic forecasting ability. As a key empirical context, we have selected the auto industry undergoing dramatic technological changes.
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New Competition in the auto industry: Incumbents versus startups
I have two new publications about the new competition in the auto industry. A Capabilities Framework for Dynamic Competition: Assessing the Relative Chances of Incumbents, Start-Ups, and Diversifying Entrants (with Fabian Vogt in Management and Organization Review) Exploring the structure of internal combustion engine and battery electric vehicles: implications for the architecture of the automotive… More »
Forum on ‘The Rise of China’s Digital Economy’
In this forum, we present three essays that collectively seek to document and explain the rise of China's digital economy. The first essay written by Hong Jiang – who is based in China – and myself – who is based in the West – focuses on documenting the rise of China's digital economy by comparing… More »
China Innovation Capacity Growth Index 2015 and 2020
It is of interest in China and across the world to predict whether China will catch up with the most economically advanced nations in innovation capacity. To facilitate an ongoing assessment of China’s innovation capacity, the article develops a China Innovation Capacity Growth Index composed of eight separate measures. China’s performance in 2020 is compared… More »
My Writings on Chinese Firms and Innovation in the Chinese Economy
I collected all my Writings on Chinese Firms and Innovation in the Chinese Economy in one place.
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The Management Transformation of Huawei: From Humble Beginnings to Global Leadership
Huawei has become China's most prominent multinational company and a leader in the ICT sector. Given unprecedented access to the company, the authors of this book examine the management transformation of Huawei from its inception in 1987 until 2019, observing in detail not only the creation of its organizational routines but also the breaking of… More »
Why gave hydrogen-powered car not become mainstream even though they were hyped in already in 1974
GM had a hydrogen-powered bus in 1967. VW and Mercedes had experimental hydrogen-powered cars in mid-1970s. Here is a list of vehicles produced by various companies. WSJ.com has produced a great video explaining why hydrogen cars are still not around the corner, despite the technology’s great promise.
The Innovation and Entrepreneurship Ecosystem in India
India began the process of market liberalization that opened it to significant interactions with the world economy in 1991. In this essay, we provide an overarching view of the country's journey toward integration with the global innovation and entrepreneurship network. Major nodes in this global network have two major components that may be metaphorically referred… More »
Using Simulation Experiments to Test Historical Explanations
I wanted to test with a computer simulation the explanations I offered in my book Knowledge and Competitive Advantage: The Coevolution of Firms, Technology and National Institutions for why German firms overtook their French and British competitors in the Synthetic Dye Industry from 1857-1913. So I partnered with Thomas Brenner who has created a simulation… More »