The recent surge of research on green energy technologies
has been driven by increasing concern about climate change
and the depletion of fossil energy sources. In the telecommunications
industry, paradigm shifts could be driven by
changes in government regulation or consumer usage patterns.
Research on these various industrial sectors will reveal different
types of technological changes. The soundness and insightfulness
of such research is dependent on in-depth interpretations of the
interactive implications among the technological changes and
market conditions. In addition, adaptive strategies for various
types of technological change require further study. This research
adopted the strategic typologies developed by Miles and
Snow [22] and Porter [23] to identify correspondence with
the proposed typology. Segev [75] empirically identified
different industrial characteristics for the two typologies.
It is recognized that the use of an ideal strategic typology in
response to paradigmatic technological change is not confined
to the business (competitive) level and usually lies beyond the
scope of any individual industry. Future research on adaptive
strategies to critical technological change will promote corporate
viability and profitability in times of paradigmatic technological
change