This research examines black-box supplier integration in new product development (NPD). A model and several hypotheses … are proposed to study the relationship between product task characteristics (importance and complexity), supplier … assessing the importance and complexity of NPD tasks is critical to the implementation of supplier integration innovation …

This study examines the factors (trust, communication, supplier relationship specific adaptations, supplier flexibility …, and relationship history) that influence knowledge transfer from the supplier to the customer firm in new product … moderates these relationships. Based on a sample of 186 US firms, this study finds that trust, communication, supplier …