and relevance of virtual teams, the relationship between virtual R&D team for SMEs and new product development (NPD) has … research in this area. It is argued to form of virtual R&D team deserves consideration at top level management for venturing …

brokers, i.e. team members or leaders who transcend different cultural boundaries and help to bridge differences among …

costs. Research therefore repeatedly stressed the positive relationship between collaborative R&D and innovation performance … terms of gains for innovation performance, but also show that collaboration has decreasing and even negative returns on … product innovation if its intensity increases above a certain threshold. In particular, costs start outweighing benefits if a …

costs. Research therefore repeatedly stressed the positive relationship between collaborative R&D and innovation performance … collaborative R&D projects in total R&D projects is associated with a higher probability of product innovation and with a higher … market success of new products. While we can confirm previous findings in terms of gains for innovation performance, we also …

, research has not tackled how information is assimilated by the NPD team and to what extent the process of information … team values (beliefs and possibly ideology) and external market feedback / information in radical projects. Via the lens of … rather influenced in interesting ways by internal team values. The findings imply that shared team values act as a selective …

sharing) and innovation behavior. The concept of absorptive capacity and assumptions from the dynamic capabilities view …