10420: A Temporal Perspective on Disruptive Innovation

This Professional Development Workshop (PDW) explores the intersection of disruptive innovation and temporality, aiming to advance theoretical insights and foster scholarly collaboration. Disruption is critical to both competitive dynamics between organizations and sustainable societal progress, but its temporal dimensions remain underexplored. By adopting a temporal perspective, this workshop addresses how organizations navigate past, present, and future to innovate disruptively – or to innovate in the face of disruptive events. The workshop begins with brief keynotes, offering fresh insights on time/temporality and disruptive innovation. The keynotes aim to stimulate discussions by highlighting how a temporal perspective will advance our understanding of disruptive innovation. In the second workshop part, participants engage in roundtable discussions to receive feedback on emerging manuscripts pertaining to this topic. These discussions, guided by keynote speakers and supported by peer discussants, create a collaborative space to refine research and build meaningful academic connections. Theoretical constructs underpinning the workshop pertain inter alia to temporal orientations, pacing, windows of opportunity, and time horizons, which we seek to connect to the idea of disruptive innovation. In doing so, we will also encourage critical dialogue regarding the social construction of “disruption” and whether the idea of disruption will help us in fighting global challenges, such as the climate crisis. By integrating perspectives from innovation, strategy, and organizational change, this PDW aims to provide a platform for advancing knowledge on innovation, disruption and temporality, charting new directions for research and practice.