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- Björk, Jennie, et al.
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Creating Better Innovation Measurement Practices
- 2017
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Ingår i: Mit Sloan Management Review. - : Sloan Management Review Association. - 1532-9194. ; 59:1, s. 45-53
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- For most companies, innovation is a top managerial priority. Many managers look at successful innovators such as Apple Inc. and Google Inc. with envy, wishing their companies could be half as innovative. To boost and benchmark innovation, managers often use quantitative performance indicators.1 Some of these indicators measure innovation as results or outcomes such as sales from new products. Others measure innovation as a process, using metrics such as the number of innovation projects in progress. And some track input measures such as the number of ideas generated, while still others focus on the innovation portfolio, by looking at factors such as the percentage of investments in breakthrough projects versus product line extensions.
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- Brattström, Anna, et al.
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Can innovation be measured? A framework of how measurement of innovation engages attention in firms
- 2018
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Ingår i: Journal of Engineering and Technology Management. - : Elsevier BV. - 0923-4748 .- 1879-1719. ; 48, s. 64-75
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Many firms manage the innovation process by using metrics. Yet, whether measurement supports or hinders innovation continues to be a topic of debate. To shed new light on this debate, this paper presents a conceptual framework of how measurement engages attention in firms. We draw on attention based theory and conceptualize innovation measurement as an attention-focusing device. We identify two ideal types of measurement practices. i) Directional Measurement: which is based on few and unidirectional metrics and encourages exploitative innovation efforts. ii) Conversational Measurement: which is based on multiple and ambiguous metrics and encourages exploration. We extend theory building in the technology and accounting literatures by theo- rizing the role of metrics and measurement for attention and by discussing the implications of such attentional engagement for innovation performance. In so doing, we engage closely with the managerial task of managing innovation while simplifying its conditions, thereby providing ac- tionable advice.
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- Brattström, Anna, et al.
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Similar, yet different: a comparative analysis of the role of trust in radical and incremental product innovation
- 2015
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Ingår i: International Journal of Innovation Management. - : World Scientific Publishing. - 1363-9196. ; 19:4
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Trust within teams is a central performance driver in product innovation. In this paper, we examine the antecedents to and performance implications of trust in firms engaged in radical innovation compared to those working towards incremental innovations. Our findings suggest that systematic processes and structures are significantly linked to trust in firms conducting radical innovation, but not so in firms conducting incremental innovation. Our findings also indicate that trust is significantly linked to business performance in radical innovation firms, although we do not find that the link between trust and performance is stronger for radical innovation firms, compared to incremental innovation firms. A central contribution of our study is therefore a better understanding of how trust operates differently in radical innovation firms, compared to incremental innovation firms. Our findings are of interest to research on radical innovation management, as well as to researchers studying the role of trust in a context of product innovation.
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- Frishammar, Johan, et al.
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Opportunities and challenges in the new innovation landscape : Implications for innovation auditing and innovation management
- 2019
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Ingår i: European Management Journal. - : Elsevier BV. - 0263-2373 .- 1873-5681. ; 37:2, s. 151-164
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Innovation auditing is a well-established practice used by managers to identify strengths and weaknesses in innovation. Existing audit frameworks fall short, however, because they neglect three major trends that currently transform the innovation landscape. These trends are as follows: 1) a shift from closed to more open models of innovation ("openness"), 2) a shift from providing physical products to industrial product services ("servitization"), and 3) a shift from an analog to a highly digitalized world ("digitalization"). This article identifies new innovation practices, opportunities, and challenges that arise for manufacturing firms along these trends. The article proposes a revised innovation audit framework, which acknowledges these trends and supports innovation management in increasingly dynamic and competitive environments. (C) 2018 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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- Richtnér, Anders, et al.
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Creating Better Innovation Measurement Practices
- 2017
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Ingår i: MIT Sloan Management Review. - : SLOAN MANAGEMENT REVIEW ASSOC, MIT SLOAN SCHOOL MANAGEMENT. - 1532-9194 .- 1532-8937. ; 59:1, s. 45-53
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- For most companies, innovation is a top managerial priority. Business executives look at successful innovators such as Apple and Google with envy, wishing their companies could be half as innovative. To boost and benchmark innovation, managers often use quantitative performance indicators, but they struggle with identifying the right metric. Yet, our research suggests that the key managerial challenge is not identifying metrics — there is no shortage of measures to choose from. Nor should the goal be to find the perfect metric, since that quest is often futile. Rather, the crux of effective innovation measurement is to understand the problem that measurement should solve for the organization and, based on that insight, to design and implement a useful and usable innovation measurement framework appropriate to the organization’s needs. The aim of this article is to help managers ask the right questions about how to measure innovation and translate their insights into effective innovation measurement practices. We have developed a practical, step-by-step framework that helps managers identify whether their current innovation measurement practices need to change and, if so, how to go about measuring innovation more effectively.
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- Richtnér, Anders, et al.
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Dispositional and Contextual Antecedents of Individual-level Absorptive Capacity
- 2015
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Ingår i: Academy of Management Proceedings. - : Academy of Management. - 0065-0668.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- An overwhelming majority of past research has conceptually and empirically treated Absorptive Capacity (AC) at the organizational level of analysis. This exclusive focus on organizational level is problematic given the central role of individuals in developing AC. Adopting micro-foundations perspective, this paper probes into individual-level dispositional antecedents (i.e., "who you are") as well as contextual elements (i.e., "where you are") facilitating motivation for effective implementation of practices and routines that could build up AC. Based on Goal Orientation Theory and Componential Theory of Creativity, we develop and test our hypotheses using a novel dataset collected from individual engineers working at a high-tech manufacturing company. Our results are largely in line with our theoretical predictions.
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- Richtnér, Anders, et al.
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Organizational interfaces for knowledge integration in product development collaborations
- 2017
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Ingår i: Creativity and Innovation Management. - : Wiley: 24 months. - 1467-8691 .- 0963-1690. ; 26:4, s. 418-429
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Through an inductive case study over three years of two product development collaborations, we identified how four organizational interfaces play out over time and how they are related to each other. This study therefore contributes to our understanding of how organizational interfaces evolve and their mutual dependencies in shaping conditions for knowledge integration. Our study extends previous work on organizational interfaces that have either focused on interfaces within the organization or focused on one or two organizational interfaces and their link to knowledge integration without considering the enabling conditions. Our longitudinal approach helps to understand how organizational interfaces play out over time and how they interact and influence each other. Our research helps managers to ask the right questions about how they can design preconditions for knowledge integration in product development collaborations. © 2017 John WileyXX1Sons Ltd
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- Richtnér, Anders, et al.
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Reaping the benefits: Mechanisms for knowledge transfer in product development collaboration
- 2015
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Ingår i: International Journal of Innovation Management. - : World Scientific Publishing. - 1363-9196. ; 19:2
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Research on knowledge transfer has predominantly focused on how to transfer source knowledge successfully to a recipient. However, there is a lack of studies on product development (PD) collaborations where the parties involved in the knowledge transfer must all jointly contribute to the knowledge transfer process when no clear sender-receiver relationship exists. Our paper concerns these relationships and is guided by the following research question: What are the mechanisms used in order to create operational level conditions for knowledge transfer in collaborative PD projects? Through a three-year longitudinal inductive case study on knowledge transfer between two companies, covering both operational and managerial levels, five key mechanisms for enabling knowledge transfer were identified: (1) co-locate a team; (2) access to existing technology; (3) establish a common vocabulary; (4) shared work processes; and (5) having joint work tasks. Our results show these five mechanisms have a mutual influence on each other, thus further facilitating the transfer of knowledge. Understanding the mechanisms and their interplay can help companies succeed in their attempts at reaping the benefits of PD collaborations.
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- Richtnér, Anders
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Staying on top: how Babson achieves excellence in Teaching
- 2015
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Ingår i: Evolving Entrepreneurial Education : Innovation in the Babson Education. - : Emerald Publishing Limited. - 9781785602009 - 9781785602016 ; , s. 15-34
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Richtnér, Anders, et al.
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Towards an Interactionist Perspective on Absorptive Capacity: A Multi-level Investigation
- 2015
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Ingår i: Academy of Management Proceedings. - : Academy of Management. - 0065-0668.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Absorptive capacity (AC) has been identified as one of the key dynamic capabilities required for achieving continuous learning and developing organizational knowledge. Despite remarkable academic interest in AC, we still lack a systematic multi-level investigation of AC. This lack of attention is especially problematic for it obstructs our insights concerning how much of an organization’s ability to absorb new knowledge comes from its individual members and how much of this ability is due to its own systems and levers. To address this, we adopt interactionist perspective and examine the role of individual-level personality characteristics and group-level transactive memory systems on the development of AC. We test our hypotheses by collecting data from 648 individuals working in 126 departments in a large European manufacturing company. Results largely confirm our theoretical predictions.
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- Richtnér, Anders, et al.
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What parameters do students value in business school rankings?
- 2015
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Ingår i: Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management. - : Taylor & Francis (Routledge): SSH Titles. - 1469-9508 .- 1360-080X. ; 37:6, s. 646-658
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The starting point of this paper is the question: Which issues do students think are important when choosing a higher education institution, and how are they related to the factors taken into consideration in ranking institutions? The aim is to identify and rank the parameters students perceive as important when choosing their place of education. The paper is based on a qualitative pre-study and a quantitative main study in which the authors examine what students perceive as important in business school rankings. Our findings show that, by taking the students’ perspective into account, one can see that some of the parameters used in rankings are of less importance to the students: for example, rankings that over-emphasise research. Second, we identify the parameters that could be included in business school rankings to make them more relevant to students: for example, paying more attention to learning outputs in rankings. Our findings highlight the importance of taking individual stakeholders into account in the rankings and understanding how rankings could be made more relevant and valuable for the range of stakeholders.
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- Stenström, Emma, et al.
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Bank of Åland: Meeting the Global Challenge of Oceans'
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Patent (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The case Bank of Aland: Meeting the Global Challenge of Oceans' follows the evolution of Bank of Aland and its work with sustainability over the last two decades, with a special emphasis on the company's social ambition that changed dramatically in the year 2015 as the bank wanted to tackle the global challenge: the issue of oceans'. The case discuss the development of the Baltic Sea Project Card, the associated open-source platform called Aland Index, and links it to the trend of FinTech companies and digitalization in the baking industry.
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- Visscher, Klaasjan, et al.
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Editoral for special issue
- 2017
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Ingår i: Creativity and Innovation Management. - : Wiley: 24 months. - 1467-8691 .- 0963-1690. ; 26:2, s. 113-114
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Yildiz, H. Emre, et al.
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What Fosters Individual-Level Absorptive Capacity in MNCs? : An Extended Motivation-Ability-Opportunity Framework
- 2019
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Ingår i: MIR: Management International Review. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 0938-8249 .- 1861-8901. ; 59:1, s. 93-129
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Absorptive capacity has been marked as one of the most important capabilities of Multinational Corporations for effective management of knowledge. To address calls for research on micro-level origins of the concept, this paper focuses on the determinants of individual-level absorptive capacity. We examine the extent to which individuals' capability to recognize, assimilate and exploit new knowledge from the environment is shaped by different forms of work motivation (i.e., intrinsic and extrinsic), overall ability, exposure to diverse country contexts and personal characteristics. Drawing on and extending the Motivation-Ability-Opportunity framework, we develop and test a set of hypotheses. Using a unique dataset collected from 648 individuals in a multinational corporation, we show that individuals' intrinsic motivation and overall ability are the key antecedents of absorptive capacity. In contrast, extrinsic motivation does not emerge as a significant predictor. We find that past international assignments to distant countries could be detrimental to individuals' absorptive capacity. However, our results suggest that for those individuals who are open to new experiences, assignments to distant countries become useful opportunity for absorptive capacity development. These findings contribute to existing literature by showing effects of alternative types of motivation and underscoring the importance of using selective assignment when considering exposure to diverse country context as a tool for employee capability development.
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- Åhlström, Pär, et al.
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Perspective: State-of-the-Art: The Quality of Case Study Research in Innovation Management
- 2019
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Ingår i: Journal of Product Innovation Management. - : Wiley: 24 months. - 1540-5885 .- 0737-6782. ; 36:5, s. 586-615
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The practice of innovation management is developing fast. As new concepts emerge, exploratory studies are needed and case study research is often appropriate. To investigate the usage and quality of case study research in innovation management, all of the articles published in five top journals over 20 years (1997–2016) were reviewed. Case study research accounted for 818 of the published articles in this period (12%) and an evaluation template (termed case study evaluation template: CASET) was developed to objectively assess these articles against 10 quality criteria. It was found that the quality of case study research has often been low, although it has improved over time. Similarly, quality was found to fluctuate both within and between the different innovation journals. This indicates that the peer review process for case study research is not as robust as it should be. The assessment of individual articles using the evaluation template found significant deficiencies. Many articles: did not justify why case study research was appropriate; did not apply theoretical sampling criteria; were not transparent on how conclusions were drawn from the data; did not consider validity and reliability adequately; and did not go beyond description in their interpretation. However, the evaluation template also identified 23 “exemplary studies,” which clearly addressed nearly every criterion. Such exemplary studies provide innovation management researchers with “benchmark” reading, which can help shape their own research. This article makes four contributions to the innovation management discipline. First, the evaluation template and exemplary studies can help innovation researchers improve the quality of their case study research. Second, clear recommendations are given for how reviewers can use the template to make the peer review process more consistent and robust. Third, journal editors are encouraged to consider the implications of the findings for their particular journal. Fourth, the article should stimulate a long overdue debate on methodology in innovation management research, including the use of case study research.
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