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...