We advance research on the managerial antecedents of exploration by studying personal, organizational, and environmental conditions under which a CEO’s risk propensity shapes a firm’s tendency to explore in product development. Our panel data analysis of 219 firms in the pre-packaged...

This paper attempts to examine the product innovation by R&D subsidies policies in a supply chain by supplier. This study derives a model for a supplier’s product innovation R&D subsidies policy. The product innovation of supplier can contribute to the long-term competitiveness for the supply...

We develop an easy-to-implement programmed method for generating new product ideas from existing products. In this method, whose core is a compatibility matrix, each pair of components or each pair of attributes used in a new design is already part of one or more existing products produced by...

Open banking is the trend of empowering customers to share their banking data with fintechs and other banks. We compile a novel dataset documenting that governments in 49 countries have implemented open banking policies and 31 more are in active discussions. Following adoption, fintech venture...

This paper examines the relationship between competition and product development innovation using the U.S. trademark database. We find that greater import competition spurs corporate product innovation measured by newly launched trademarks. However, such increase in foreign competition is...

Vehicle production is no doubt one of the most significant pillars of the German manufacturing industry. German vehicle producers have been challenged by their competitors, especially by the USA-based companies, to maintain their competitiveness and market power for a long time. In addition to...

In a first survey of its type, we measure development and modification of consumer products by product users in a representative sample of 1,173 UK consumers aged 18 and over. We estimate this previously unmeasured type of innovation to be quite large: 6.1% of UK consumers – nearly 2.9 million...

Facing the new challenges in production processes, companies should adopt lean and green practices in product development. In SMEs, the application of these practices is more complex. This work explores the maturity of lean-green methodologies in the product development process in Brazilian and...