The resource-based view (RBV) of the firm has gained much attention in recent years as a means to understand how a strategic business unit obtains a sustainable competitive advantage. In this framework, several research studies have explored the relationships between resources/capabilities and...

This research examines the impacts of relationship-based antecedents (e.g., procedural justice) and character-based antecedents (e.g., transactional leadership) on managerial trust in new product development (NPD) teams. The moderating impact of environmental turbulence on team performance is...

The existing literature on SME internationalization has inadequately integrated joint innovation capabilities, organizational unlearning, and the internationalization process. Previous studies have primarily examined these concepts separately, obscuring their interconnection and reciprocal...

An evolutionary perspective of the resource-based view is adopted to understand how changes in a partner firm's overall strategy may influence the firm's interfirm partnerships over time. We contend that changes in a partner firm's overall resource deployment strategy and partnering strategy...

This study focuses on two dimensions of market orientation and the corresponding dimensions of market knowledge competence: i.e., the customer and competitor dimensions. We examine whether customer and competitor orientations are transmuted into market-based innovation either directly, or...

The initial screening of a new product idea is critically important. Risky projects (i.e., those with high probabilities of failure) need to be eliminated early before significant investments are made and opportunity costs incurred. Unfortunately, previous research suggests that it is often...

In the race to bring new products to market, a company may be tempted to cut corners in the new product development (NPD) process. And a hostile environment - that is, one marked by intense competition and rapid technological change - only heightens the pressure to reduce NPD cycle time....