Nothing is more fundamental to a company’s well‐being than a meaningfully differentiated product that is valued by a significant set of customers. Healthy companies focus on growth from new products. Product is consumer need merging with organizational ability. The creation of new products...

Purpose: This paper aims to move beyond previous investigations juxtaposing the performance of global versus domestic brands, where domestic is referred to as “localness” in the literature, conceptualizing and developing two measures of “within-country brand or product localness.” In...