Using a collection of data among 490 participants from different companies in the field of medical engineering market, we contribute to the role of contact intensity by a business partner when launching new products by introducing trust as a mediator to the concept of perceived risk reduction to...

Daß sich auch die Betriebswirtschaft mit dem Management von technologischen Neuerungen im Bereich von Forschung und Entwicklung beschäftigt, erscheint aus zwei Gründen sinnvoll: zum einen berichten eine Vielzahl von empirischen Studien, daß sich nur zwischen 3 % und 25 % der innovativen...

There is often a clash between the necessity to innovate and the high economic risks involved in the introduction of novelties. The technology-strategies developed in reaction to this situation aim at profiting from the technological leader's or the innovator's experience: the technological...

Today, hardly anyone still denies the enormous importance of technological innovations for both national economics and business administration. Their influence on the development of the general economic objectives of economic growth, employment, productivity, and international competitiveness...

Ohne Zweifel hat das Experiment der quasi stichtagsbezogenen Umstellung einer gesamten Volkswirtschaft von planwirtschaftliche auf marktwirtschaftliche Regelmechanismen zu Krisenerscheinungen mit gigantischem Ausmaß geführt. Die industrielle Produktion in den neuen Bundesländern war 1990 um...

This paper contributes to the discussion about initiative in teams at the front end of new product development processes (innovative teams). In contrast to the general opinion presented in the literature, this study points out that unstructured innovative teams are as much initiative in...