Abstract
"Innovator's dilemma" written by Christensen caught on very much among management scholars as well as practitioners immediately after its publication in 1997. He argues that even the most brilliant firms may fail to exit the industry when a disruptive innovation appears, because of their misunderstanding and fallacious response to it. His theory is now called disruptive innovation theory or disruptive theory.
This study examines the critics against the disruptive theory proposed by Lepore, who is a historian and a professor of Harvard University, in 2014 and the consequent discussions so as to investigate the state-of-the-arts, problems, and possibilities of the disruptive theory.
