Integrating customer contributions into new product development provides an effective approach for successful product innovation, but little academic research explicitly addresses appropriate customer integration strategies. To explore such strategies, this study investigates the impact of different customer contribution types and timing. An analysis of four case studies with industrial goods d...

In the past decade, technological advancements have led to changes in the economy with important implications for the strategic management of new ventures. In this paper, we argue that the dynamics of competition, success, and failure for new ventures have been significantly altered by the convergence of electronic technologies and the growing importance of knowledge-based assets. We proceed fr...

What is the relationship between knowledge strategy and firm performance? The impact of the same knowledge strategy on firm performance is inconsistent. We identify two dimensions of knowledge strategy: knowledge newness and knowledge diversity which are the important factors of organizational knowledge. This study argue that the effect of knowledge strategy on firm performance is contingent on...

Plastic laboratory materials are found to affect vital parameters of the waterflea Daphnia magna. The main responsible factor is defined as "newness" of the materials. Juvenile D. magna were raised individually in; a) new laboratory-standard 50 ml polypropylene tubes, and; b) identical tubes which had been washed and aerated for several weeks. Newness had significant effects on growth and fecun...

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Speakers may use pitch accents as pointers to new information, or as signals of a contrast relation between the accented item and a limited set of alternatives. Some people claim that contrastive accents are more emphatic than newness accents and have a different melodic shape. Others, however, maintain that contrastiveness can only be determined by looking at how accents are distributed in an ...

Chronological cues are ubiquitous in retail settings, whether they come the form of production, release, on-shelf, or purchase dates, etc. Yet, remain relatively underexplored marketing literature. Could newness that arises from these chronological lead consumers to prefer options merely because newer, above and beyond any substantive benefits conferred implied by newness? We propose find a ser...

Speakers may use pitch accents as pointers to new information, or as signals of a contrast relation between the accented item and a limited set of alternatives. There is no consensus in the literature whether a separately identi able contrastive accent exists. Some studies report that contrastive accents are more emphatic than newness accents and have a di erent melodic shape. In other studies,...

How do entrepreneurs decide to begin a full scale operation (i.e., exploitation of a new opportunity) in the entrepreneurial process? The question is investigated in a conjoint experiment with 55 entrepreneurs of high tech new ventures. The results suggest that entrepreneurs’ exploitation decision is positively affected by potential profitability (a low threat of imitation) and negatively by th...