Over the past years, businesses have had to tackle the issues caused by numerous forces from political, technological and societal environment. The changes in the global market and increasing uncertainty require us to focus on disruptive innovations and to investigate this phenomenon from...

Der Innovationsgrad eines Neuproduktes ist ein Indikator für die Wettbewerbsfähigkeit und Marktakzeptanz. Basis dafür ist die Kenntnis der kaufrelevanten und wettbewerbsentscheidenden Produktmerkmale. In diesem Working Paper wird mit dem Rangfolgemodell ein Instrument vorgestellt, mit dem das...

Purpose: The question of resource scarcity and emerging pressure of environmental legislations has brought a new challenge for the manufacturing industry. On the one hand, there is a huge population that demands a large quantity of commodities; on the other hand, these demands have to be met by...

Während sich Unternehmen die Möglichkeiten der vernetzten Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologie für die gemeinsame Entwicklung neuer Produkte zunutze machen, stellen sich gleichzeitig Fragen nach dem Schutz von vertraulichen Informationen und Wissen. Um ihre ungewollte Verbreitung zu...

The importance of data and different sources of knowledge in the development of new services and products, and further in the creation of new markets, has dramatically increased during the past few decades. This empirical study uses data from 531 Finnish firms to explore the determinants of...

Performance management is an on-going process, which has an essential component part, performance measurement, which involves the identification, supervision and communication of performance results, through the relation to a set of performance indicators. Based on the assessment results,...