Previous research has found that buyer-supplier collaboration in new product development can contribute to project success. Empirical evidence is mixed, however, and the concept of buyer-supplier collaboration is under-developed. This work develops a new construct, buyer-supplier collaboration...

Manufacturers involve suppliers in new product development in order to access knowledge and resources, but these benefits only occur with effective project-level integration. Adopting a contingency theory view, we develop hypotheses concerning how two integrative devices, intensive communication...

Collaborating with a supplier in a buying firm’s new product development (NPD) project is commonly advocated and adopted, but does not always improve project performance. Some preexisting collaboration contexts, such as buyer-supplier NPD projects, are especially exposed to supplier...

We introduce a new type of critical supplier — the nexus supplier — that becomes evident when we consider suppliers from a network perspective. The extant literature focuses on the importance of strategic suppliers and identifies strategic suppliers as critical due to their significant...