European Journal of Innovation Management: Volume 9 Issue 1

Engineering change request management in a new product development process

Bhuiyan Nadia, Gatard Gregory, Thomson Vince

The objective of this research was to compare the behavior of two methods of managing an engineering change request (ECR) process, namely, perform changes as they occur or in a…

Determinants of radical product innovations

Andreas Herrmann, Torsten Tomczak, Rene Befurt

Time and time again companies with leading positions in the market place lose their dominance when a radical change occurs in the technological basis. In some cases, the survival…

Managing the balance of perspectives in the early phase of NPD: A case study from the automotive industry

Kamilla Kohn

In new product development (NPD), the early phase is considered to be one of the greatest opportunities for improving the overall process, where intensive collaboration between…

An entrepreneurial decision process model describing opportunity recognition

Richard J. Pech, Alan Cameron

The purpose of this paper is to expand upon existing theories of entrepreneurial cognitions. It constructs an information‐processing framework of entrepreneurship (I‐P^e) that…

Innovation in disruptive regulatory environments: A patent study of electric vehicle technology development

Alan Pilkington, Romano Dyerson

The purpose of this paper is to explore the development of the electric vehicle, technological capabilities of incumbents and would‐be new entrants in the auto industry. These are…

Fading eco‐benign networks: The causes found at Volvo Car Corporation and Ford Motor Company

Mats Williander

Most research on greening of industry using a network approach has the firm as smallest unit of analysis. In addition, few have focused on technological regimes. The purpose of…

Sensemaking throughout adoption and the innovation‐decision process

Larry Seligman

Current technology adoption research focuses on relationships between attitudes, intentions, behavior, and their various antecedents, but little is known about how these…