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Managing External Information in Manufacturing Firms : The Impact on Innovation Performance
Johan Frishammar,Sven Ake Horte +1 more
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In this paper, the authors investigated the extent to which management of external information is associated with innovation performance, and found that decision-making based on information from the industry environment correlated significantly with the innovation performance.About:
This article is published in Journal of Product Innovation Management.The article was published on 2005-05-01. It has received 273 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Competitor analysis.read more
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Inbound Open Innovation Activities in High‐Tech SMEs: The Impact on Innovation Performance
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the effects of four inbound open innovation activities on innovation performance of SMEs and found that different open innovation activity are beneficial for different innovation outcomes.
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Barriers to Innovation among Spanish Manufacturing SMEs
TL;DR: Innovation is widely recognized as a key factor in the competitiveness of nations and firms and as discussed by the authors states that small firms that do not embrace innovation within their core business strategy run the risk of becoming...
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Effects of supplier and customer integration on product innovation and performance: Empirical evidence in Hong Kong manufacturers
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the impact of key supplier and customer integration processes (i.e., information sharing and product codevelopment with suppliers and customer, respectively) on product innovation as well as their impact on product performance.
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Utilizing customer knowledge in innovation: antecedents and impact of customer involvement on new product performance
Anna Shaojie Cui,Fang Wu +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the antecedents and impact of three forms of customer involvement in innovation are examined: customer involvement as an information source (CIS), customer involvement with co-developers (CIC), and customer involvement of innovators (CIN).
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Fueling Innovation through Information Technology in SMEs
TL;DR: The potential benefits of IT, here presented as investments by the firm in both tangible and intangible assets, for innovation pursuant to enhanced firm performance, were investigated in this article, where the authors concluded that IT offers firms a competitive competency which aids firms in differentiating themselves in the marketplace, such as through innovation.
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Absorptive capacity: a new perspective on learning and innovation
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that the ability of a firm to recognize the value of new, external information, assimilate it, and apply it to commercial ends is critical to its innovative capabilities.
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Market orientation: The construct, research propositions, and managerial implications.
TL;DR: The literature reflects remarkably little effort to develop a framework for understanding the implementation of the marketing concept as mentioned in this paper, and the authors synthesize extant knowledge on the subject and pro-pose a knowledge-based approach.
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The sources of innovation
TL;DR: The functional source of innovation general patterns economic explanation shifting and predicting the sources of innovation innovation as a distributed process is discussed in this paper, where users as innovators are considered as the innovators.