European Journal of Innovation Management: Volume 4 Issue 1

The distribution model in the diffusion of innovations: a comparison of different European countries

Enar Ruíz Conde, Francisco José Más Ruíz

The objective of this study was two fold: first, we wanted to test the goodness of fit of different diffusion models that include the variable “distribution”, and then analyze the…

Innovation as newness: what is new, how new, and new to whom?

Jon‐Arild Johannessen, Bjørn Olsen, G.T. Lumpkin

Innovation implies newness. To define and measure innovation better, we investigated three dimensions of newness: what is new, how new, and new to whom? Drawing on prior research…

Factors influencing product development team satisfaction

Gloria Barczak, David Wilemon

The increasing use of cross‐functional teams for new product development (NPD) belies the difficulty managers face in creating teams that are truly effective. Effectiveness…

Implementation of success factors in new product development – the missing links?

Bjarne Jensen, Hanne Harmsen

This paper addresses companies’ lack of implementation of success factors in new product development. Drawing on theory in the competence perspective and an exploratory empirical…

Resource adequacy in new product development: a discriminant analysis

Xueli Huang, Geoffrey N. Soutar, Alan Brown

New product development (NPD) is crucial to the survival and thriving of a business entity and a firm’s sources of advantages are important to the NPD success. This paper explores…