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Purpose: In this paper, we adopt the dynamic capabilities view as a theoretical framework to empirically investigate the relationships among human resource (HR)-related quality management (QM) practices, new product development (NPD) as a specific dynamic capability, learning orientation,...
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Does having additional women participate in research and product development teams result in more successful products downstream? We examine this question in the context of the pharmaceutical industry which has suffered from historically low women participation in the patent invention teams,...
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This paper contributes to literature by adding a new taxonomy that has deductively scaled business product into four different types. It is both visually and conceptually resourceful in developing suitable business strategies for firms to engineer products that will fit with a proper segment of...
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The increasing globalization of businesses presents many challenges including the challenges of cultural integration and cross-cultural conflicts. Utilizing the seminal work of Nakata and Sivakuimar (1996) linking national culture and new product development, this paper further explores the...
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Integrating the customer in the innovation process is believed to be a powerful means to reduce failure rates and to … innovation process has to be weighed against the costs. Virtual customer integration has been discussed as a way to limit these … sourcing of ideas. Especially the integration of the customer in the execution phase of the innovation process remains largely …
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Outsourcing arrangements continue to evolve from peripheral activities, such as food services and back office transaction processing, to encompass more core activities such as new product development. Some arrangements maintain a clear lead organization while others, such as open source...
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incremental versus radical innovation. We develop a theory rooted in classical behavioral economics of reference-building, and … different degrees of innovation in successive musical album releases, by using a multi-attribute musical description of songs … utilized to adopt appropriate innovation rates to tailor-make products that cater to the preference structures of target …
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Co-creation can generate a multitude of organizational advantages, including improved innovation performance. While … some studies have found that co-creating with several types of external stakeholders influences innovation performance … in improved innovation performance. Accordingly, this article investigates the impact of breadth of external stakeholder …
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We investigate whether appointing a middle management level affects startups' innovation performance. Additional …
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construction industry, the development of green products is still too slow to meet future needs. To push green innovation, this …
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