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{"title":"The evolution and disintegration of innovation narratives during scaling in science-based ventures","authors":"Peter Kalum Schou","doi":"10.1111/jpim.12764","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jpim.12764","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Science-based ventures (SBVs) are crucial vehicles that bring new technologies from the lab and to the mainstream market. During this journey, innovation narratives play a crucial role in coordinating innovation. Innovation narratives are linguistic representations that actors use to make sense of innovation activities, events and actions. In other words, they are stories that drive sensemaking, which is a critical element in avoiding conflicts in product innovation process and securing coordinated activities between diverse actors. However, as SBVs shift markets and undergo radical changes, they may have to update narratives to fit these changes. Yet, little is known about how innovation narratives and coordination evolve during this journey. To improve knowledge on this matter, I conducted a 24-month study of a science-based venture crossing over to a commercial market. I find that during this transition, innovation narratives shift from being shaped by <i>progressive storytelling</i>, where the benefits of becoming commercial and hiring nonacademics is highlighted, to being shaped by <i>retrogressive storytelling</i>, where incumbents and newcomers use their respective pasts to develop divergent narratives, and finally to appearing as <i>disintegrated storytelling</i>, where narratives compete and hinder coordination in innovation processes. Building on these findings, I construct a process model of how innovation narratives evolve and disintegrate as SBVs scale. This article contributes to knowledge on innovation management by illustrating how innovation narratives affect coordination in innovation processes, as well as how they may evolve during organizational change. Furthermore, this article illuminates the challenges that SBVs face to their innovation processes when scaling.</p>","PeriodicalId":16900,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Product Innovation Management","volume":"42 2","pages":"365-391"},"PeriodicalIF":10.1,"publicationDate":"2024-10-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jpim.12764","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143118910","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Telling (mis)fitting new product stories: The role of consumer orientations, product innovativeness, and message framing on new product evaluations","authors":"Abdul R. Ashraf,&nbsp;Magnus Hultman,&nbsp;Narongsak Thongpapanl,&nbsp;Ali Anwar","doi":"10.1111/jpim.12765","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jpim.12765","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Extant research proposes that consumer goal orientation-message frame <i>fit</i> (<i>consumer–message fit</i>) leads to favorable product evaluations. However, there is evidence that consumer goal orientation-message frame <i>misfit</i> (<i>consumer–message misfit</i>) at times also result in favorable evaluations of new products. This study develops and tests a novel prediction that shows how consumer–message misfit results in consumers having more favorable responses toward new products when the type of innovation (incremental vs. radical) is perceived as instrumental to achieving the consumer's goals with the product (<i>innovation–consumer fit</i>), creating a kind of fit–misfit effect. Results from four experiments encompassing multiple new product categories support this fit–misfit prediction. We further show that surprise mediates the effect of fit–misfit. This research builds on current theory involving goal orientations and schema-incongruity, recommends several areas for future research, and presents practical implications for managing new product communication messages.</p>","PeriodicalId":16900,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Product Innovation Management","volume":"42 3","pages":"557-581"},"PeriodicalIF":10.1,"publicationDate":"2024-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jpim.12765","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143861902","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Translating agile management practices into a traditional industry context","authors":"Melanie E. Kreye,&nbsp;Tabea Ramirez Hernandez,&nbsp;Steven Eppinger","doi":"10.1111/jpim.12760","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jpim.12760","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This study explores the translation of agile management practices (agile) into a traditional industry context. Using a case study of agile adoption in a development project in a large traditional company of the aerospace and defense industry, this research investigates how the translation process unfolds by studying how both idea and context are adapted to create shared meaning. This research makes two main contributions. First, this research introduces translation theory to the innovation management literature and details its applicability in explaining variations in outcomes of applying management practices in new organizational contexts. Our research suggests that this constitutes a complementary theoretical lens to diffusion theory, enabling the explanation of the process to create shared meaning when idea and recipient context have a low level of compatibility. Second, this research shows the process of translating agile into a traditional context through a non-linear joint creation of meaning. The process was shaped largely by the experience and resolution of project-external (i.e., with the surrounding organization) and project-internal conflicts, which in turn motivated the idea or context to adapt. The study identifies two central concepts, namely isolation, and shielding, which determine how the translation process unfolds and how meaning is created. Managerial implications based on these contributions are presented and discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":16900,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Product Innovation Management","volume":"42 2","pages":"444-467"},"PeriodicalIF":10.1,"publicationDate":"2024-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jpim.12760","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143117330","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"From the editors: Passing the baton","authors":"Jelena Spanjol,&nbsp;Charles H. Noble,&nbsp;Gloria Barczak","doi":"10.1111/jpim.12759","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jpim.12759","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":16900,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Product Innovation Management","volume":"41 6","pages":"1093-1099"},"PeriodicalIF":10.1,"publicationDate":"2024-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142451172","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Absorptive capacity in a more (or less) absorptive environment: A meta-analysis of contextual effects on firm innovation","authors":"Tatiana R. Stettler,&nbsp;Esther J. Moosauer,&nbsp;Simone A. Schweiger,&nbsp;Artur Baldauf,&nbsp;David Audretsch","doi":"10.1111/jpim.12758","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jpim.12758","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The effects of the knowledge environment on a firm's ability to acquire, assimilate, transform, and utilize new knowledge—its absorptive capacity (AC)—to produce innovation (INN) have been largely overlooked in prior literature. Drawing on the knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship, we conduct a meta-analysis summarizing findings from 145 empirical studies on 434,985 firms with 798,650 firm-year observations. We distinguish between <i>knowledge-rich environments</i> with abundant, easily accessible information; <i>knowledge-protected environments</i> with high levels of intellectual property rights protection; and <i>knowledge-intensive environments</i> with high levels of reliance on knowledge. Our study assesses the impact of the environment on the AC–INN relationship. First, we confirm that knowledge-rich environments create more opportunities to reap innovation benefits from AC compared to knowledge-scarce environments. Driven by the development of communication technologies and increased information sharing, the effects of AC on innovation are almost twice larger in the smartphone era as they were during the preinternet or early internet era. Second, our analysis indicates that high levels of knowledge protection, as seen in North America and Europe, while safeguarding intellectual property, also dampen positive effects of absorptive capacity on innovation. In environments with less knowledge protection, the effects of AC on innovation are stronger. Finally, our findings suggest that AC is beneficial across industry sectors, but its effects are stronger in less knowledge-intensive sectors. The mean effect size in low-tech manufacturing and services is two times larger than in high-tech industries. Beyond contextual effects, we assess AC's effects on two major creativity outputs: <i>invention</i>, as a breakthrough scientific discovery, and <i>commercialization</i>, as a socially usable and marketable product. Our findings show that AC overall boosts innovation and is more strongly associated with commercialization than with invention. The implications of this study aim to inform practitioners and policymakers and advance future research on knowledge environments.</p>","PeriodicalId":16900,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Product Innovation Management","volume":"42 1","pages":"18-47"},"PeriodicalIF":10.1,"publicationDate":"2024-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jpim.12758","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143112168","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Service robots and innovation: An ecosystem approach","authors":"Dominik Mahr, Gaby Odekerken‐Schröder, Mark Steins","doi":"10.1111/jpim.12756","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/jpim.12756","url":null,"abstract":"The proliferation of service robots has stimulated innovation across industries. These autonomous, physically embodied, and adaptable robots engage in diverse interactions, from patient care to goods delivery and hospitality services. However, the deployment of increasingly capable service robots demands not only designing user–robot interactions, but also holistic innovation management that transcends organizational boundaries and involves various societal stakeholders. Our research draws on the emerging Public Value Theory to examine the types of service robots and the innovation ecosystems that harness the expertise of public and private stakeholders and produce Public Value. Based on literature and an illustrative case study, we conceptualize service robots along characteristics such as autonomy, aesthetics, assistive roles, and user interfaces, and introduce Service Robot‐based Innovation as the ecosystem‐enabled development and employment of such robots. The service robot's autonomy and ecosystem integration are key dimensions determining innovation management practices and Public Value creation. The illustrative case, centered on long‐term care, dissects the integration of service robots across the micro (user), meso (organizational), and macro (societal) levels of the ecosystem. An ecosystem‐as‐structure approach identifies the roles and activities of stakeholders aligning around a shared value proposition of Public Value. A research agenda presents future opportunities within and across various ecosystem levels to advance scholarly understanding of Service Robot‐based Innovation.","PeriodicalId":16900,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Product Innovation Management","volume":"9 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":10.5,"publicationDate":"2024-08-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141935233","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Fueling innovation management research: Future directions and five forward-looking paths","authors":"Jelena Spanjol,&nbsp;Charles H. Noble,&nbsp;Markus Baer,&nbsp;Marcel L. A. M. Bogers,&nbsp;Jonathan Bohlmann,&nbsp;Ricarda B. Bouncken,&nbsp;Ludwig Bstieler,&nbsp;Luigi M. De Luca,&nbsp;Rosanna Garcia,&nbsp;Gerda Gemser,&nbsp;Dhruv Grewal,&nbsp;Martin Hoegl,&nbsp;Sabine Kuester,&nbsp;Minu Kumar,&nbsp;Ruby Lee,&nbsp;Dominik Mahr,&nbsp;Cheryl Nakata,&nbsp;Andrea Ordanini,&nbsp;Aric Rindfleisch,&nbsp;Victor P. Seidel,&nbsp;Alina Sorescu,&nbsp;Roberto Verganti,&nbsp;Martin Wetzels","doi":"10.1111/jpim.12754","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jpim.12754","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Research about innovation management explores how the future is created—who is creating it (organizations, collaborations, etc.), for what aims (customer satisfaction, market performance, etc.), and with what broader effects (social, environmental, etc.). With this extended essay, we explore the potential futures of innovation management research in three ways. First, we briefly review the history of past research agendas and priorities published in the <i>Journal of Product Innovation Management</i> (JPIM), highlighting three broad topic areas (technological, social/environmental, and organizational) that have emerged over time and their potential disruptive implications for innovation management research. Second, we describe the outcome of a gathering of leading scholars in innovation management tasked with the challenge of identifying critical research paths for our field. This collaboration resulted in five “deep dive” essays into areas ripe for innovation management research in the years ahead: liquid innovation, artificial intelligence in innovation, business model innovation, public value innovation, and responsible innovation. Third, we reflect on this expansive effort and offer a discussion of implications (tensions, challenges, and opportunities) for future innovation management scholarship.</p>","PeriodicalId":16900,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Product Innovation Management","volume":"41 5","pages":"893-948"},"PeriodicalIF":10.1,"publicationDate":"2024-07-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jpim.12754","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141866484","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Engagement logics: How partners for sustainability-oriented innovation manage differences between organizational logics","authors":"Rosina Watson,&nbsp;Hugh N. Wilson,&nbsp;Emma K. Macdonald","doi":"10.1111/jpim.12753","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jpim.12753","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Innovation partnerships frequently experience tensions due to differences in partners' organizational logics. The literature recommends that partners adopt collaborative, empathetic mindsets but even so, tensions can threaten outcomes and partnership continuation. Difficulties can be exacerbated when firms engage stakeholder organizations in sustainability-oriented innovation projects, where each partner is seeking their own combination of social, environmental, and economic objectives. This study explores strategic responses to these differences in logics through eight case studies of sustainability-oriented innovation engagements between a focal business and an external organization. The key finding is that partners can respond to their differing logics by shaping a new “engagement logic” that guides members of both (or all) organizations. A logic frame with four value-related dimensions—value salience, instrumentality, temporality, and language—allows a subtly idiosyncratic engagement logic to be created that is acceptable to both parties. This classification of ingredients of a logic frame forms a wider contribution to the institutional-logics literature. A complementary range of logic practices is identified, covering logic emergence, logic enactment, and boundary defining. The engagement logic aids the partnership by contributing to four partnership-level generative outcomes: partnership commitment, capability integration, scope flexibility, and system orientation. A notable finding is the presence of a logic boundary, specified in work, time, and space, enabling the engagement logic to co-exist with organizational logics; a research direction is whether this boundary also exists in logics at organizational and field levels. The study shows partnerships to be a new context within which novel logics can emerge, contributing to an understanding of how logics evolve.</p>","PeriodicalId":16900,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Product Innovation Management","volume":"42 2","pages":"310-337"},"PeriodicalIF":10.1,"publicationDate":"2024-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jpim.12753","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141780114","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"How does failure normalization foster product innovativeness in new product development? The role of passion and learning","authors":"Xiangming (Tommy) Tao,&nbsp;Deniz Ucbasaran","doi":"10.1111/jpim.12755","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jpim.12755","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Tolerating failure has gained recognition as a crucial catalyst for product innovation. However, there is a limited understanding of how and under what conditions project leaders' perceptions of failure normalization—the norms regarding failure in their work environment—can enhance product innovativeness in the context of new product development (NPD). Drawing upon sensemaking and motivation theories, we propose a moderated mediation model to address this research gap. Data were collected from 181 high-tech ventures in China, with responses gathered at three different time points from matched respondents. Utilizing moderated path analysis and the Monte Carlo method, our findings reveal that failure normalization primarily fosters product innovativeness by facilitating learning from failure. Importantly, this positive effect is contingent upon the project leader's passion for inventing. A profound passion for inventing significantly enhances NPD leaders' motivation to learn from failures, thereby acting as a pivotal factor that determines whether failure normalization promotes or impedes product innovativeness. This research thus elucidates the previously inconclusive relationship between failure normalization and product innovativeness as presented in the literature. It underscores the dual importance of organizational culture (specifically, failure normalization) and individual motivation (specifically, the passion for inventing) in driving learning and innovation within the NPD process. The practical implications of these findings are significant for high-tech ventures seeking to enhance their NPD outcomes. Specifically, cultivating an organizational culture that perceives failure as an opportunity for learning, coupled with recognizing and fostering the passion for inventing among NPD project leaders, can boost NPD product innovativeness.</p>","PeriodicalId":16900,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Product Innovation Management","volume":"42 2","pages":"338-364"},"PeriodicalIF":10.1,"publicationDate":"2024-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jpim.12755","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141655419","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Direct and indirect effects of degree of interdisciplinarity on firms' innovation performance: The moderating role of firms' capabilities","authors":"Tetyana Melnychuk,&nbsp;Carsten Schultz","doi":"10.1111/jpim.12750","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jpim.12750","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Combinations of heterogeneous knowledge from different scientific domains may drive highly innovative outcomes. Our study investigates whether firms can benefit from interdisciplinary research and development (R&amp;D) activities by also reflecting on the potential negative consequences of increasing complexity of outcome validation activities at later stages of innovation processes. We explore which resources and organizational capabilities may influence the efficacy of interdisciplinary R&amp;D activities. We examine whether the available financial slack, collaborations with universities, and a high betweenness centrality in scientific networks may promote the flexibility, scope, and efficiency of knowledge integration, and thus moderate the direct and mediated relationships between the degree of interdisciplinarity (DoI) of a firm's R&amp;D activities and innovation performance. To test our hypotheses, we performed an analysis of medical technology firms that are highly dependent on interdisciplinary R&amp;D. We collected a panel dataset of R&amp;D activities and successful market launches of new products from 79 large medical technology firms between 1997 and 2021. The measurement of a firm's DoI is based on a novel approach involving neural networks in a bibliographic data graph. Our results suggest that firms can improve their innovation performance if they conduct interdisciplinary R&amp;D activities. However, higher levels of DoI also increase the complexity of the required outcome validation, which reduces a firm's innovation performance. We also found that high levels of financial slack help to overcome barriers of implementing interdisciplinary R&amp;D activities. Collaborations with universities, and good access to knowledge in scientific networks, further foster interdisciplinary knowledge application in new product development.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":16900,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Product Innovation Management","volume":"42 2","pages":"417-443"},"PeriodicalIF":10.1,"publicationDate":"2024-06-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jpim.12750","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141273109","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}