美國可攜式MP3撥放器產業之演進

The Evolution of the U.S. Portable MP3 Player Industry

謝淑惠(Shu-Hui Hsieh)

指導教授 ： 彭奕農

元智大學/管理學院/經營管理碩士班(企業管理與服務科學學程)/碩士(2011年)

摘要

在科技與創新管理的領域當中，創新的演進一直式眾所矚目的焦點。主流設計等理論最常被用來描述創新的本質；然而，不同的創新仍然無法完整描述既存理論。此論文藉由處理一項創新的縱向歷史研究來強調此論點，目的在於研究主流設計等既存理論是否適合用來描述創新演進的本質。
此研究從各式二手資料來源，包含產業雜誌、報刊評論以及公司網站等蒐集了美國從1998年到2012年的可攜式MP3撥放器之創新資料，希望藉由此項資料瞭解創新的收斂本質並測試是否主流設計理論可以解釋此項創新演進的本質，以及主流設計與其他理論不同之處。

關鍵字

主流設計 ； 產品創新 ； 產業發展

並列摘要

In the field of technology and innovation management, innovation evolution historically has enjoyed high level of attention. The theories such as dominant design, technological guidepost have been used to describe the evolution nature of the innovations. However, various innovations still demonstrate developments outside the descriptions of existing theory. We hope to address this issue by conducting a data rich detailed longitudinal study on an innovation to see whether existing theories, more specifically the dominant design theory, can describe the evolution of the innovation.
We collected detailed information (especially on product level) of the portable MP3 player innovation in U.S. between 1998 and 2012 from various secondary sources including industry magazines, popular press, and company websites. Using this information, we try to understand the convergence nature of the innovation and test whether the dominant design theory can explain the evolution of the innovation well or how it is different from the theory.

並列關鍵字

dominant design ； product innovation ； industry evolutions

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