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In this addendum, we present a measure of discrimination ability that is free of the downwardly biasing assumptions of previous discrimination measures. We discuss the magnitude of the bias in the previous measures, the reliability of all of the measures, intercorrelations among them, and their...
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Diffusion models represent one of the key successes in marketing science. We understand a great deal about what … influences and shapes within-country diffusion patterns. However, we understand far less about what influences and shapes cross …-country (or “inter-country”) diffusion patterns. Clearly, for firms operating in a truly global environment, understanding to what …
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The ability to keep up with changing technology is critical for a company's long-term survival. However, companies have to balance the risk of rushing into new areas and potentially cannibalizing their existing business against the risk of missing the emerging market. This paper investigates...
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At the heart of a new product sales-forecasting model for consumer packaged goods is a multiple-event timing process …
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Innovation research tends to consider only the post-commercialization period or examine a few innovations through case studies. In this study, we examine 29 radical innovations from initial concept to mass-market commercialization. We find that these innovations were developed over an average of...
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Idea generation (ideation) is critical to the design and marketing of new products, to marketing strategy, and to the creation of effective advertising copy. However, there has been relatively little formal research on the underlying incentives with which to encourage participants to focus their...
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a sliding-window logit model and a gamma diffusion pattern in a hierarchical Bayes framework. We show that accounting …
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In alliances jointly developing product and market, we first investigate how (a) the number of networks competing to develop a product, (b) the number of alternative technology platforms, and (c) market sensitivity to product development expenditures affect investments of partnering firms. We...
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In recent years, many U.S. and Japanese firms have adopted Quality Function Deployment (QFD). QFD is a total-quality-management process in which the “voice of the customer” is deployed throughout the R&D, engineering, and manufacturing stages of product development. For example, in the first...
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While the new product literature suggests that managerially controllable factors most strongly affect new product success, few studies have examined how these factors differ across countries. The objectives of this article are: (1) to develop a model of factors associated with new product...
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