Virtual ‘co-creation' can be a more effective way to integrate customers into the NPD process. In our study, we examine the effectiveness of virtual co-creation in the early stages of new product development (i.e. idea generation). Specifically, we focus on multiple contingent factors that can...

Purpose – Consumers increasingly experience and value services as elements of a larger constellation of mutually facilitating, complementary, and supporting services. A service constellation is a combination of multiple interdependent services – often produced by multiple specialized service...

Increasingly, firms use more and different routes to market. This study investigates whether such heterogeneity in the variety of routes to market can be explained systematically. More specifically, the authors examine how (1) the type and level of a firm’s customer orientation and (2) the...