Abstract
The institutional entrepreneurship implicit in a firm's sponsorship of its technology as a common standard is beset by several challenges. These challenges arise from a standard's property to enable and constrain even as potential competitors agree to cooperate on its creation. Our exploration of Sun Microsystems's sponsorship of its Java technology suggests that standards in the making generate seeds of self-destruction. Our study also identifies the social and political skills that a sponsor deploys to address these challenges.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 196-214 |
| Number of pages | 19 |
| Journal | Academy of Management Journal |
| Volume | 45 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 2002 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Business and International Management
- General Business, Management and Accounting
- Strategy and Management
- Management of Technology and Innovation