European Journal of Innovation Management: Volume 6 Issue 3

Knowledge management and new product development: a study of two companies

Abraham B. (Rami) Shani, James A. Sena, Tommy Olin

The essence of new product development is the creation, utilization and exploitation of new knowledge. Business sustainability is embedded in the firm’s ability to manage its new…

Determinants of adoption for organisational innovations approaching saturation

Alan A. Brandyberry

A large‐scale random sample is used to empirically examine the relationships between adoption of computer‐aided design (CAD) and five organisational characteristics that are…

Knowledge integration processes and the appropriation of innovations

Donald Hislop

This paper examines the appropriation of innovations in a number of qualitative case studies through the theoretical lens of the activity based perspective on knowledge. Because…

Memes and cognitive hardwiring: why are some memes more successful than others?

Richard J. Pech

Memes communicate ideas and some memes are more successful at doing this than others. The reason for such success has been hotly debated. It is argued that there is an ontogenetic…

The need for a new product development framework for engineer‐to‐order products

Abd. Rahman Abdul Rahim, Mohd. Shariff Nabi Baksh

New product development (NPD) is the cornerstone of manufacturing companies. An engineer‐to‐order (ETO) company can achieve its business objectives by reducing design iterations…