Our objective is to understand how a firm’s product development capability (PDC) affects the launch strategy for a durable product that is sequentially improved over time in a market where consumers have heterogeneous valuations for quality. We show that the launch strategy of firms is...

Mit der Marktnahen Produktentwicklung soll die technologische Leistungsfähigkeit eines Unternehmens so in die Neuproduktentwicklung eingebunden werden, dass Bedürfnisse der Kunden bestmöglich befriedigt werden. Auf diese Weise sollen geforderte und realisierte Produkteigenschaften...

We introduce a model of product development in a firm. Our model describes the process as a multi-stage contest (i.e., race) with an endogenous length (with one stage or two stages) between two workers. We model the payments to workers from the new product using the normatively appealing Nash...