While most academics generally agree that innovation plays the mediating role between market orientation and new product/service performance, relatively little research has examined how each component of market orientation contributes to new service performance through various types of service innovation. Based on a survey of 235 managers and taking a component-wise approach, this study finds t...

This study explores the factors that contribute towards the perception of an innovation as radical by its adopters. This paper addresses an important conceptual gap in the innovation literature by identifying the attributes which make an innovation radical. Prior conceptualizations of radicalness have been useful but incomplete and have often assumed that term “radicalness of an innovation” is ...

The paper argues that micro and macro economists interested in the dynamics of creative destruction can gain important insights by using indices that capture the effect of innovation on the relative position of firms. This is due to the uneven and “destructive” effect that radical innovation has on firm rankings. One such index is the market share instability index. On the financial side, the e...

We analyzed the effects of R&D cooperation with users and the intensity/continuity of such cooperation on firms’ innovation output—whether radical or incremental. We also examined the moderating effect of firm size on these relationships. Results show that cooperation with users favours the development of both radical and incremental product innovations. In addition, we found that the higher th...

Radical innovations prompt significant subsequent technological development and exhibit novelty and "architectural" innovation, i.e. rearranging the way design elements are put together in a system. Thus, radical innovations often serve as the foundation for new technological systems, industries or domains and are seen to involve significant conceptual breakthroughs, through either luck or geni...

This chapter takes a dynamic view in a double sense: how do different forms of organization develop in time, and how do they perform with respect to innovation? On the basis of a theory of organizational learning, an attempt is made to explain the relative advantages of large, integrated forms and disintegrated forms of organization (networks). Disintegration and differentiation are required fo...

Our study focuses on the question, whether users should be intensively involved in the innovation process of radical product innovations or better not – from the manufacturer’s perspective. Radical innovations incorporate new technologies, shift market structures, require intensive user learning and induce significant behavior changes. Due to these specifics the question arises, whether users p...

Radical innovation creates discontinuity in the competitive environment and, in some cases, open new industries. The origin of radical innovation is poorly understood, although a large literature deals with its consequences. Some authors stressed the importance of challenging established boundaries of markets, by addressing non-customers and developing products around new functionalities. This ...