TY - BOOK N2 - The lean start-up approach has garnered tremendous amount of interest in recent years and has become mainstream among entrepreneurs. However, this practitioners’ conversation has been largely decoupled from the broader academic literature in management and technology strategy. This article attempts to fill this gap. We situate the construct of lean start-up within its underlying roots in the research traditions of organizational learning, real options, new product development, and technology evolution. We then comment on the economic and technological forces that have caused this organizational form to become prevalent. By juxtaposing these related, but distinct, lines of research we are able to identify a number of novel and interesting avenues for researchers in both entrepreneurship and the broader management literature that lie at the intersection of these domains. AB - The lean start-up approach has garnered tremendous amount of interest in recent years and has become mainstream among entrepreneurs. However, this practitioners’ conversation has been largely decoupled from the broader academic literature in management and technology strategy. This article attempts to fill this gap. We situate the construct of lean start-up within its underlying roots in the research traditions of organizational learning, real options, new product development, and technology evolution. We then comment on the economic and technological forces that have caused this organizational form to become prevalent. By juxtaposing these related, but distinct, lines of research we are able to identify a number of novel and interesting avenues for researchers in both entrepreneurship and the broader management literature that lie at the intersection of these domains. T1 - Situating the construct of lean start-up: adjacent conversations and possible future directions. AU - Contigiani, Andrea, AU - Levinthal, Daniel A., JF - Industrial and Corporate Change, VL - Volume 28, Issue 3 LA - eng ID - 47779 KW - Innovation KW - Technology KW - Intellectual property KW - Entrepreneurship SN - 0960-6491 (Print) SN - 1464-3650 (Online) TI - Situating the construct of lean start-up: adjacent conversations and possible future directions. LK - https://doi.org/10.1093/icc/dtz013 UR - https://doi.org/10.1093/icc/dtz013 ER -