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Project radicalness and maturity: a contingency model for the importance of enablers of technological innovation

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The article was published on 2003-04-01 and is currently open access. It has received 4 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Maturity (finance) & Contingency theory.

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Stimulating Innovative Thinking

TL;DR: This article showed that certain types of dialogue can spur technical creativity and that coaching dialogues that support a scientist's autonomy while providing guidance can be particularly effective for staving off stammers.
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Environmental Uncertainty, Organizational Integration, and New Product Development Effectiveness: A Test of Contingency Theory

TL;DR: Souder et al. as mentioned in this paper explored the interplay between technical and market uncertainty, integration, and new-product development effectiveness in terms of such indicators as NPD cycle time, prototype development proficiency, design change frequency (a negative performance indicator), and product launch proficiency.
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Practices that Support Team Learning and Their Impact on Speed to Market and New Product Success

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors study the learning practices of 95 new product teams and uncover several factors that improve a new product team's ability to learn, innovate faster, and be more successful, including thoroughly reviewing project information, having stable project goals, and following a rigorous new product development process.
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Industrial Firms' Grand Strategy and Functional Importance: Moderating Effects of Technology and Uncertainty

TL;DR: In this paper, the impact of four grand strategies on the relative importance of seven organizational functions and the moderating effects of type of production system and perceived environmental uncertainty were studied in the context of organizational functions.
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Choice Over Uncertainty and Ambiguity in Technical Problem Solving

TL;DR: It is argued that uncertainty and ambiguity are dissimilar concepts, thereby following ideas proposed by the recent literature, and proposed framework for research on communication gatekeepers and on the role of top managers in technical change is discussed.
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Managing Discontinuous Innovation

TL;DR: Rice et al. as mentioned in this paper identified mechanisms and practices under management control that can help to further the discontinuous innovation process, such as mechanisms for directing the technology-market arenas in which these projects occur, mechanisms for proactively stimulating discontinuous innovations, criteria for project evaluation and screening that differ from currently used criteria, and mechanisms for protecting projects that operate in highly uncertain regimes, and the importance of recognizing the key role of multiple champions over time.