Firms' reaction on external disruptive technologies.

This study analyzes how firms' experience with disruptive technologies influences new product development (NPD) and firms' performance (adoption rate of disruptive technologies, and quality of products). The preliminary results have shown that the number of utilized disruptive technologies in the past does not affect the quality of currently produced products. However, the more products firms produce with the same technology, the higher the quality of products is. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]