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Raja Roy is a leading scholar in strategic management and innovation, with a focused expertise on how firms navigate radical technological change and market disruption. His research primarily investigates the dynamics of knowledge, firm boundaries, and innovation, offering critical insights into why incumbents often fail during technological transitions—a phenomenon he terms the "incumbent's curse." Roy’s most influential work, "Knowledge, firm boundaries, and innovation" (2014), with 120 citations, demonstrates that maintaining both in-house upstream knowledge and downstream market linkages helps firms mitigate this curse. He has also made significant contributions by exploring the boundary conditions of Christensen’s disruption theory, showing in his 2014 study on the industrial robotics industry that large firms can successfully introduce new products with potentially disruptive technologies. Further, his research on the nuanced role of prior experience in product innovation (2017) and the strategies of de novo versus de alio entrants (2009) deepens our understanding of how firms compete during technological upheavals. Roy’s work is essential reading for students and researchers interested in technology strategy, organizational adaptation, and the microfoundations of innovation.