OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Product Innovation Management is 3. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Digital Transformation and Innovation Management: A Synthesis of Existing Research and an Agenda for Future Studies	311
A Self‐Tuning Model for Smart Manufacturing SMEs: Effects on Digital Innovation	174
Augmenting human innovation teams with artificial intelligence: Exploring transformer‐based language models	104
The origin and evolution of Stanford University’s design thinking: From product design to design thinking in innovation management	96
Framing the microfoundations of design thinking as a dynamic capability for innovation: Reconciling theory and practice	74
Accelerating innovation: Some lessons from the pandemic	71
The more the merrier? Chinese government R&D subsidies, dependence, and firm innovation performance	69
Facilitating business model innovation: The influence of sustainability and the mediating role of strategic orientations	61
Design thinking: Critical analysis and future evolution	49
Digital product innovation management: Balancing stability and fluidity through formalization	49
Extrinsic Rewards, Intrinsic Motivation, and New Product Development Performance	45
Sustaining Complement Quality for Digital Product Platforms: A Case Study of the Philips Hue Ecosystem	40
Entrepreneurial ways of designing and designerly ways of entrepreneuring: Exploring the relationship between design thinking and effectuation theory	39
Innovative idea generation in problem finding: Abductive reasoning, cognitive impediments, and the promise of artificial intelligence	38
Digital reframing: The design thinking of redesigning traditional products into innovative digital products	35
Design thinking implementation for innovation: An organization's journey to ambidexterity	34
How experts screen ideas: The complex interplay of intuition, analysis and sensemaking	34
Design thinking as sensemaking: Developing a pragmatist theory of practice to (re)introduce sensibility	33
The effects of institutional investors on firms' green innovation	33
The effects of university–industry collaboration in preclinical research on pharmaceutical firms’ R&D performance: Absorptive capacity’s role	32
Disrupting the Disruptors or Enhancing Them? How Blockchain Reshapes Two‐Sided Platforms	30
From ego‐systems to open innovation ecosystems: A process model of inter‐firm openness	27
The effect of CEO regulatory focus on changes to investments in R&D	26
Mitigating the dark side of agile teams: Peer pressure, leaders’ control, and the innovative output of agile teams	26
Best practices in new product development and innovation: Results from PDMA's 2021 global survey	25

Moving toward responsible value creation: Business model challenges faced by organizations producing responsible health innovations	24
Distinguishing digitization and digitalization: A systematic review and conceptual framework	23
Leveraging resources for innovation: The role of synchronization	23
The ambivalent role of monetary sales incentives in service innovation selling	22
The human side of innovation management: Bridging the divide between the fields of innovation management and organizational behavior	21
When cultures collide: What can we learn from frictions in the implementation of design thinking?	21
Narcissistic CEOs' dilemma: The trade‐off between exploration and exploitation and the moderating role of performance feedback	20
Customer heterogeneity and innovation‐based competitive strategy: A review, synthesis, and research agenda	20
Organizational antecedents to bootlegging and consequences for the newness of the innovation portfolio	19
Facing the heat: Political instability and firm new product innovation in sub‐Saharan Africa	18
Enhancing innovation via the digital twin	18
When change is all around: How dynamic network capability and generative NPD learning shape a firm’s capacity for major innovation	18
The road ahead is digital for innovation management and there is no way back	17
Leadership in innovation communities: The impact of transformational leadership language on member participation	16
Innovation or entrepreneurship: Which comes first? Exploring the implications for higher education	16
Envisioning innovation opportunities through science fiction	16
Grand challenges and platform ecosystems: Scaling solutions for wicked ecological and societal problems	16
Born to rebel? The owner birth order and R&D investments in Chinese family firms	16
Converting technological inventions into new products: The role of CEO human capital	16
The double‐edged sword of CEO narcissism: A meta‐analysis of innovation and firm performance implications	16
Which effort pays off? Analyzing ideators’ behavioral patterns on corporate ideation platforms	16
Front End Transfers of Digital Innovations in a Hybrid Agile‐Stage‐Gate Setting	15
Artificial intelligence in innovation management: A review of innovation capabilities and a taxonomy of AI applications	15
Board gender diversity, feminine culture, and innovation for environmental sustainability	15
Strategic and cultural contexts of real options reasoning in innovation portfolios	15
Supply chain innovation: Conceptualization, instrument development, and influence on supply chain performance	14
CEOs' marital status and corporate innovation	14
New product advantage infused by modularity: Do resources make a difference?	14
Hybrid innovation logics: Exploratory product development with users in a corporate makerspace	14
Reaching for the stars: When does basic research collaboration between firms and academic star scientists benefit firm invention performance?	13
Entrepreneurship and innovation in a metropolis: Education and policy implications in Hong Kong	13
The dark side of business model innovation: An empirical investigation into the evolvement of customer resistance and the effectiveness of potential countermeasures	13
Innovation is not entrepreneurship, nor vice versa	13
Interpersonal relationships and creativity at work: A network building perspective	13
Microfoundations of dynamic design capabilities: An empirical analysis of “excellent” Italian design firms	13
Reviewing the intellectual structure of product modularization: Toward a common view and future research agenda	13
“Distance” in intellectual property protection and MNEs’ foreign subsidiary innovation performance	12
Illuminating opposing performance effects of stressors in innovation teams	12
Setting contextual conditions to resolve grand challenges through responsible innovation: A comparative patent analysis in the circular economy	12
Paradoxes of implementing digital manufacturing systems: A longitudinal study of digital innovation projects for disruptive change	12
Tackling grand societal challenges: Understanding when and how reverse engineering fosters frugal product innovation in an emerging market	11
Rapid validity testing at the front end of innovation	11
Grand challenges and emerging market small and medium enterprises: The role of strategic agility and gender diversity	11
Play and psychological safety: An ethnography of innovative work	10
Interconnected digital twins and the future of digital manufacturing: Insights from a Delphi study	10
Configurations of social media‐enabled strategies for open innovation, firm performance, and their barriers to adoption	10
The effects of exposure to others' ideas and their ratings on online crowdsourcing platforms on the quantity and novelty of subsequently generated ideas	10
Tackling pandemic‐related health grand challenges: The role of organizational ambidexterity, social equality, and innovation performance	10
Brokerage that works: Balanced triads and the brokerage roles that matter for innovation	9
How are We Faring? Reflections on Coronavirus and its Effects on the Innovation Management Scholarly Community	9

Growing with smart products: Why customization capabilities matter for manufacturing firms	9
Related and unrelated product diversification and collaboration strategies: Comparison between the pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical industries	9
Crowdfunding performance, market performance, and the moderating roles of product innovativeness and experts' judgment: Evidence from the movie industry	9
Paving a path for a post‐COVID‐19 innovative environment	9
Behavioral influences on the relationship between firms' aspiration performance gap and innovation input: The moderating role of executives' vocational socialization	8
When firms embrace science: University alliances and firm drug development pipeline	8
No innovation without entrepreneurship: From passion to practice	8
Entrepreneurship and new product development: Exploring the “advantage of youth” and “business acumen” views	8
Is proximity better? The geographical proximity of financial resources and green innovation	7
CEO narcissism and innovation ambidexterity: The moderating roles of CEO power and firm reputation	7
Transitioning additive manufacturing from rapid prototyping to high‐volume production: A case study of complex final products	7
Sustainable innovation: Additive manufacturing and the emergence of a cyclical take‐make‐transmigrate process at a pioneering industry–university collaboration	7
Atypical package design and product category prestige	7
Converting inventions into innovations to address cancer grand challenges: The role of scientific and digital search intensity	7
Business model innovation: Integrative review, framework, and agenda for future innovation management research	7
Digital manufacturing and innovation	7
How firms realign to tackle the grand challenge of climate change: An innovation ecosystems perspective	7
Accelerating innovation and protecting organizations: Pluralism in the COVID‐19 age	6
Same model, same data, but different outcomes: Evaluating the impact of method choices in structural equation modeling	6
Another day, another chance: Daily workplace experiences and their impact on creativity	6
How do grand challenges determine, drive and influence the innovation efforts of for‐profit firms? A multidimensional analysis	6
Overcoming the negative role of nostalgia in consumer reactions to automated products	5
The professionalization of innovation management: Evolution and implications	5
Capturing product/service improvement ideas from social media based on lead user theory	5
Your innovation or mine? The effects of partner diversity on product and process innovation	5
Framing innovation success, failure, and transformation: A systematic literature review	5
Spinning straw into gold: Innovation recycling, innovation sourcing modes, and innovation ability in Sub‐Saharan Africa	5
From the Editors: Engaging with generative artificial intelligence technologies in innovation management research—Some answers and more questions	5
A tale of two distractions: How institutional forces influence R&D‐based problemistic search in transition economies	5
Addressing the grand challenges of poverty with data‐driven creative service offerings	5
Changing the geographic scope of collaboration: Implications for product innovation novelty and commercialization	5
How do different network positions affect crowd members' success in crowdsourcing challenges?	5
Employee acceptance of digital transformation strategies: A paradox perspective	5
Confronting the grand challenge of environmental sustainability within supply chains: How can organizational strategic agility drive environmental innovation?	4
Enhancing subsidiary innovation capability through customer involvement in new product development: A contingent knowledge source perspective	4
Global eco‐innovation and its local impact in emerging economies: Boundary conditions of environmental regulations and pollution intensity	4
Tackling exigent grand challenges through corporate social innovation: Evidence from the COVID‐19 pandemic	4
Deflected by the tin foil hat? Word‐of‐mouth, conspiracy beliefs, and the adoption of innovative public health apps	4
The innovative work behavior of external technology experts in collaborative R&D Projects: Uncovering the role of multiple identifications and extent of involvement	4
Technology strategies in converging technology systems: Evidence from printed electronics	4
Where digital meets physical innovation: Reverse salients and the unrealized dreams of3Dprinting	3
Internationalization and innovation: A multilevel meta‐analysis of national sentiments	3
Do business customers perceive what salespeople believe? Perceptions of salesperson adoption of innovations	3
When necessity is the mother of disruption: Users versus producers as sources of disruptive innovation	3
A time to consider, a time to deliver: The independent and interactive effects of regulatory mode on innovative work behavior	3
Board political ideological diversity and information exposure as antecedents to value creation and value appropriation	3
Competition from informal firms and new‐to‐market product innovation: A competitive rivalry framework	3
Innovation's domain: The need for a sharper yet broader focus	3
Inside the technology showroom: Sequence of technology demonstrations and willingness to collaborate	3
“Do as we say and you'll be successful”: Mundane power in corporate entrepreneurship	3
This is what you came for? University–industry collaborations and follow‐on inventions by the firm	3
Customers driving a firm's responsible innovation response for grand challenges: A co‐active issue‐selling perspective	3