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...

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...

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>

Die mit Hilfe einer Conjoint-Analyse bei Personalmitarbeitern identifizierten "High-Potentials" unter den BWL-Studenten zeichnen sich im empirischen Portrait durch durchgehend beeindruckende Qualifikationen aus, was Noten sowie praxis- und außeruniversitäres Engagement angeht. Aufgrund ihrer...

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...

In this article, the authors propose that the canonical customer-toolkit dyad in mass customization (MC) should be complemented with user communities. Many companies in various industries have begun to offer their customers the opportunity to design their own products online. The companies...

The quest for the "success factors" that drive a company's innovation performance has attracted a great deal of attention among both practitioners and academics. The underlying assumption is that certain critical activities impact the innovation performance of the company or the project....

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

This paper extends recent research studying biases in venture capitalist’s decision-making. Wecontribute to this literature by analyzing biases arising from similarity between a venture capitalist andmembers of a venture team. We summarize the psychological foundations of such similarity...