Ziel der variantengerechten Gestaltung ist es, Produktfamilien zu entwickeln, die eine große marktseitige Vielfalt mit einer minimalen internen Vielfalt bereitstellen. Dazu wird eine Methode präsentiert, die alle Schritte der Produktenwicklung mit einbezieht und ein entwickeltes Idealbild...

Employee resistance against innovations is a virulent phenomenon and there is a broad theoretical literature on its determinants. The empirical evidence is scarce, however, and mainly provides descriptive evidence on the incidence of the phenomenon and concentrates on the effectiveness of change...

The new type of industrialization called Industry 4.0 is gaining increasing importance for manufacturing and service firms alike. Industry 4.0 is characterized by the interconnection between different information and communication technologies and between production facilities such as machines,...

This paper investigates whether firms innovate persistently or discontinuously over time using an innovation panel data set on German manufacturing and service firms for the period 1994-2002. We find that innovation behaviour is permanent at the firm-level to a very large extent. Using a dynamic...

Employee resistance against innovations is a virulent phenomenon and there is a broad theoretical literature on its determinants. The empirical evidence is scarce, however, and mainly provides descriptive evidence on the incidence of the phenomenon and concentrates on the effectiveness of change...