[agumonkey]

is "theory of disruption" a new term ? Does it deal with other structural resistance ? Such as big companies unable to decide whether to keep reaping benefits of past success or saw their own branch to evolve the market into a new and probably better state ?

[kornish]

"Disruption" frequently refers to the ideas discussed by Professor Clayton Christensen, who's written some books on the topic. Good jumping off points here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Innovator%27s_Dilemma

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disruptive_innovatio