Thomas Puls, Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft, Köln, sieht die deutsche Autoindustrie aufgrund früherer strategischer Entscheidungen relativ gut für den Strukturwandel gerüstet. Viele große Firmen sind gut vorbereitet, bei den kleinen Zulieferern müsse hingegen von spürbaren Verlusten...

This empirical study combines distinct research streams related to personal motivation and open innovation theory to derive motivational factors for individual participation in cross‐industry innovation. We revisited the theory of planned behavior and, based on this, hypothesized that three...

Customer integration into the innovation process is about to become a best practice. The lead-user approach has proven to be especially valuable when reducing discontinuous innovation's market risk. Since the theory of customer integration still lacks a concept and processes, this article...

External sources are main elements of a firm's search strategy as they positively influence a firm's innovation activities. While previous research has almost exclusively focused on search patterns on firm level, we focus on search mechanisms in single innovation project settings. Based on an...