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...

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...

Firms developing novel and innovative products regularly face a canonical product development and introduction problem: introduce a proven and immediately available product, or delay product introduction until the successful development of an advanced version. Limited access to resources for the...