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New Product Development in Turbulent Environments : Impact of Improvisation and Unlearning on New Product Performance
Akgun, Ali; Byrne, John C.; Lynn, Gary; Keskin, Halit - 2013
Team learning is vital for organizations in order to compete in fast-paced environments. However, the ways learning can be effective in such environments warrents research, especially for teams developing new products under rapidly changing technological and market conditions. Interestingly,...
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Knowledge Networks in New Product Development Projects : A Transactive Memory Perspective
Akgun, Ali; Byrne, John C.; Keskin, Halit; Lynn, Gary; … - 2013
Even though an individual’s knowledge network is known to contribute to the effectiveness and efficiency of his or her work in groups, the way that network building occurs has not been carefully investigated. In our study, activities of new product development teams were analyzed to determine...
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The Impacts of Speed-to-Market on New Product Success : The Moderating Effects of Uncertainty
Chen, Jiyao; Reilly, Richard R.; Lynn, Gary - 2013
Team learning is vital for organizations in order to compete in fast-paced environments. However, the ways learning can be effective in such environments warrents research, especially for teams developing new products under rapidly changing technological and market conditions. Interestingly,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014165281
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Effect of Improvisation on Product Cycle Time and Product Success : A Study of New Product Development (NPD) Teams in the United States
Lynn, Gary; Reilly, Richard R. - 2013
For many years, the long established referral process for successfully developing and commercializing new products has been called a phased-review or "Stage-Gate" system. The purpose of this article is to test whether improvisation increases the odds of faster product launch and greater new...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014165283
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Accelerated Learning in New Product Development Teams
Lynn, Gary; Akgun, Ali; Keskin, Halit - 2014
Learning in new-product development teams is cited as being vital in today’s competitive, uncertain, and turbulent environments. However, studies on accelerated learning in product-development teams are, surprisingly, lacking. This study proposes a model for accelerated team learning in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014165285
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From Cross-Functional to Rank-Spanning Radical New Product Development : An Analysis with Recommendations
Nunez, Enrique; Reilly, Richard R.; Lynn, Gary - 2013
While CEOs say that innovation is an important source of future growth for their companies, they devote more than twice … often markedly different based on how far-reaching of an innovation is being developed. In this paper, we contend that … structure, management’s responsibilities include: 1. Designing an environment conducive to radical innovation. 2. Deciding which …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014165286
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New Product Team Learning : Developing and Profiting from Your Knowledge Capital
Lynn, Gary - 2014
Continuous improvement has been credited with helping companies in decreasing manufacturing costs, reducing inventory, compressing cycle time, improving quality, speeding distribution, and increasing customer satisfaction. But what is at the heart of continuous improvement? What allows a company...
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Transactive Memory System in New Product Development Teams
Akgun, Ali; Byrne, John C.; Keskin, Halit; Lynn, Gary - 2013
With the increasing popularity of collective memory in the group behavior literature, the transactive memory system (TMS) attracts many researchers and practitioners from different fields, in particular, small group research. Nevertheless, the application of the theory of TMS on new product...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014165342
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Antecedents and Consequences of Team Stability on New Product Development Performance
Lynn, Gary - 2013
Group member change or team stability is a popular and important topic in the group and organizational behavior literature. Team member stability is viewed as a critical factor for an effectively functioning and performing group. Even though there is a plethora of studies on group member change...
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Project Visioning : Its Components and Impact on New Product Success
Lynn, Gary - 2013
from a wide variety of firms. We found that an effective vision varies depending on the innovation type – incremental …
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