Study goals
Investigate how insurgent actors in organizational fields use disruptive innovation to alter established technologies and business models, aiming to create new markets and change power dynamics within these fields.
Relevance / originality
The research explores the convergence between insurgent actors and disruptive innovation, highlighting how these peripheral actors challenge established organizational structures, drive significant changes, and recentralize the organizational field by introducing new technologies and practices.
Methodology / approach
Theoretical analysis, presented in a scientific essay, of companies that, through disruptive innovation, have challenged and displaced established actors in their organizational fields, combining institutional theory and concepts of digital transformation.
Main results
Insurgent actors, by introducing innovative technologies, can shift centers of power within organizational fields, promoting a restructuring that favors the emergence of new protagonists and practices, breaking away from established models.
Theoretical / methodological contributions
The study offers a new perspective on power dynamics in organizational fields, combining institutional theory with the concept of disruptive innovation, and highlights the role of peripheral actors as agents of structural change.
Social / management contributions
The findings provide insights for managers on how innovators can transform markets and organizations, encouraging the adoption of disruptive strategies to ensure survival and relevance in highly competitive environments.