Although firms increasingly invest in systems (e.g. ISO, knowledge centres, IT systems) for utilizing stored knowledge and acquiring market information during new product development, few manage to benefit from these investments. To explore this issue, we suggest that firms rely on two distinct...

Although firms increasingly invest in systems (e.g. ISO, knowledge centres, IT systems) for utilizing stored knowledge and acquiring market information during new product development, few manage to benefit from these investments. To explore this issue, we suggest that firms rely on two distinct...

This paper investigations the impact of customers’ innovation information discovery in management discussion and analysis (MD&A) on the innovation of suppliers. We find that the more innovation information disclosed in MD&A, the higher innovation level of the supplier, and the higher the...