In many contexts such as product design and development, advertising, or scouting for technical solutions, clients seek the expertise of external providers to generate innovative solutions for their business problems. Since innovation projects are beset with uncertainty, they often require...

For firms to be able to compete in the complex and dynamic nature of today's economy, they need to continually innovate. Thereupon, it is important to understand the drivers of innovation at firms. In this paper, we study the effect of employee satisfaction on firms' innovation performance. We...

This special issue implores us to address sustainability from the lens of emerging economies and the role that innovation can play in this context. We posit that, for sustainable operations research to be relevant in the context of emerging economies, it needs to incorporate social concerns and...

Science and technology advances drive firms to continually enhance their product’s performance and launch sequentially improving offerings. Firms face challenges in marketing such improving products to well informed, forward-looking consumers who anticipate product improvements and seek to...

New product development in several industries is driven by innovations in underlying technologies. Firms developing new generation products often face the following choice: they can either introduce a product based on a proven and immediately available technology, or delay product introduction...