Many current reflections on science and technological development seem to be concentrated upon the notion that these processes are not subject to man's conscious control. But, instead of demanding an analysis of research itself, from which conscious control might ultimately be expected, they...

This paper presents a method for visualizing competitive market structures based on scanner panel data where asymmetries are taken into account. For this, I combined consumer choice models based on mixed logit models with three-mode principal component analysis. This approach can be used to...

We present a broad-based, consumer-centric view of innovation--referred to as "perceived firm innovativeness" (PFI). PFI is conceptualized as the consumer's perception of an enduring firm capability that results in novel, creative, and impactful ideas and solutions. We develop and validate a PFI...