The need to economically identify rare subjects within large, poorly mapped search spaces is a frequently encountered problem for social scientists and managers. It is notoriously difficult, for example, to identify “the best new CEO for our company,” or the “best three lead users to...

Firms and governments are increasingly interested in learning to exploit the value of lead user innovations for commercial advantage. Improvements to lead user theory are needed to inform and guide these efforts. In this paper we empirically test and confirm the basic tenants of lead user...

Fokus dieser Arbeit ist es ein tiefergehendes Verständnis über den Einfluss von kognitiven Verzerrungen auf die Innovationsbewertung mit Informationsmärkten zu schaffen. Hierfür wird der Einfluss von Selbstüberschätzung auf die Innovationsbewertung mit Informationsmärkten in zwei...

Firms and governments are increasingly interested in learning to exploit the value of lead user innovations for commercial advantage. Improvements to lead user theory are needed to inform and guide these efforts. In this paper we empirically test and confirm the basic tenants of lead user...

Numerous journal rankings exist in the field of Technology/Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship (TIE). In light of the growing importance of such rankings for the evaluation of research endeavors, the question arises as to which ranking constitutes the most appropriate scale. We suggest...

Manufacturers customarily provide only a few product variants to address the average needs of users in the major segments of markets they serve. When user needs are highly heterogeneous, this approach leaves many seriously dissatisfied. One solution is to enable users to modify products on their...

This study contributes to our understanding of the innovation process by bringing attention to and investigating the process by which innovators outside of firms obtain innovation-related resources and assistance. This study is the first to explicitly examine how user-innovators gather the...

The start-up team plays a key role in venture capitalists' evaluations of venture proposals. Our findings go beyond existing research, first by providing a detailed exploration of VCs' team evaluation criteria, and second by investigating the moderator variable of VC experience. Our results...

Kovarianzstrukturanalytische Erklärung studentischen Gründungsverhaltens anhand der Persönlichkeitskonstrukte "Risikopräferenz" und "Unabhängigkeitsstreben" sowie der subjektiven Wahrnehmung der Umfeldbedingungen [Nikolaus Franke, Christian Lüthje]<p>Dieses Arbeitspapier ist ebenfalls als...</p>

The idea of integrating users into the design and production process is a promising strategy for companies being forced to react to the growing individualization of demand. While there is a huge amount of managerial literature on mass customization, empirical findings are scarce.(...)