OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Product Innovation Management is 2. 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Digital Transformation and Innovation Management: A Synthesis of Existing Research and an Agenda for Future Studies	203
Innovation and Design in the Age of Artificial Intelligence	196
Big Data for Creating and Capturing Value in the Digitalized Environment: Unpacking the Effects of Volume, Variety, and Veracity on Firm Performance*	140
A Self‐Tuning Model for Smart Manufacturing SMEs: Effects on Digital Innovation	121
The Digital Transformation of Search and Recombination in the Innovation Function: Tensions and an Integrative Framework*	98
The Transformation of the Innovation Process: How Digital Tools are Changing Work, Collaboration, and Organizations in New Product Development*	97
Smart Products: Conceptual Review, Synthesis, and Research Directions*	89
Digital Transformation Through Exploratory and Exploitative Internet of Things Innovations: The Impact of Family Management and Technological Diversification*	69
The origin and evolution of Stanford University’s design thinking: From product design to design thinking in innovation management	67
Framing the microfoundations of design thinking as a dynamic capability for innovation: Reconciling theory and practice	63
The Gordian Knot of Practicing Digital Transformation: Coping with Emergent Paradoxes in Ambidextrous Organizing Structures*	59
Accelerating innovation: Some lessons from the pandemic	57
Technology Push or Market Pull? Strategic Orientation in Business Model Design and Digital Start‐up Performance*	54
From Empowerment Dynamics to Team Adaptability: Exploring and Conceptualizing the Continuous Agile Team Innovation Process	45
The more the merrier? Chinese government R&D subsidies, dependence, and firm innovation performance	45
Augmenting human innovation teams with artificial intelligence: Exploring transformer‐based language models	44
Reviewing the Field of External Knowledge Search for Innovation: Theoretical Underpinnings and Future (Re‐)search Directions	43
Team Design Thinking, Product Innovativeness, and the Moderating Role of Problem Unfamiliarity	41
Facilitating business model innovation: The influence of sustainability and the mediating role of strategic orientations	41
Nonfinancial Considerations in Eco‐Innovation Decisions: The Role of Family Ownership and Reputation Concerns	40
Digital product innovation management: Balancing stability and fluidity through formalization	37
Design thinking: Critical analysis and future evolution	35
Extrinsic Rewards, Intrinsic Motivation, and New Product Development Performance	33
The Effect of Family Involvement on Innovation Outcomes: The Moderating Role of Board Social Capital	32
Entrepreneurial ways of designing and designerly ways of entrepreneuring: Exploring the relationship between design thinking and effectuation theory	30

Digital reframing: The design thinking of redesigning traditional products into innovative digital products	28
Sustaining Complement Quality for Digital Product Platforms: A Case Study of the Philips Hue Ecosystem	28
Design thinking implementation for innovation: An organization's journey to ambidexterity	25
How experts screen ideas: The complex interplay of intuition, analysis and sensemaking	23
The effect of CEO regulatory focus on changes to investments in R&D	22
The effects of university–industry collaboration in preclinical research on pharmaceutical firms’ R&D performance: Absorptive capacity’s role	22
Mitigating the dark side of agile teams: Peer pressure, leaders’ control, and the innovative output of agile teams	22
Design thinking as sensemaking: Developing a pragmatist theory of practice to (re)introduce sensibility	20
Moving toward responsible value creation: Business model challenges faced by organizations producing responsible health innovations	19
Disrupting the Disruptors or Enhancing Them? How Blockchain Reshapes Two‐Sided Platforms	19
Innovative idea generation in problem finding: Abductive reasoning, cognitive impediments, and the promise of artificial intelligence	19
Leveraging resources for innovation: The role of synchronization	19
Post‐Failure Success: Sensemaking in Problem Representation Reformulation	17
From ego‐systems to open innovation ecosystems: A process model of inter‐firm openness	17
The effects of institutional investors on firms' green innovation	16
Strategic and cultural contexts of real options reasoning in innovation portfolios	14
The ambivalent role of monetary sales incentives in service innovation selling	14
The road ahead is digital for innovation management and there is no way back	14
Born to rebel? The owner birth order and R&D investments in Chinese family firms	14
When cultures collide: What can we learn from frictions in the implementation of design thinking?	14
Making Sense of an Interconnected World: How Innovation Champions Drive Social Innovation in the Not‐for‐Profit Context	13
Organizational antecedents to bootlegging and consequences for the newness of the innovation portfolio	13
When change is all around: How dynamic network capability and generative NPD learning shape a firm’s capacity for major innovation	13
Digital Machines, Space, and Time: Towards a Behavioral Perspective of Flexible Manufacturing	12
Front End Transfers of Digital Innovations in a Hybrid Agile‐Stage‐Gate Setting	12
Leadership in innovation communities: The impact of transformational leadership language on member participation	12
Setting contextual conditions to resolve grand challenges through responsible innovation: A comparative patent analysis in the circular economy	12
Reaching for the stars: When does basic research collaboration between firms and academic star scientists benefit firm invention performance?	11
New product advantage infused by modularity: Do resources make a difference?	11
Facing the heat: Political instability and firm new product innovation in sub‐Saharan Africa	11
The human side of innovation management: Bridging the divide between the fields of innovation management and organizational behavior	11
Narcissistic CEOs' dilemma: The trade‐off between exploration and exploitation and the moderating role of performance feedback	11
Interpersonal relationships and creativity at work: A network building perspective	11
Illuminating opposing performance effects of stressors in innovation teams	10
Converting technological inventions into new products: The role of CEO human capital	10
Innovation or entrepreneurship: Which comes first? Exploring the implications for higher education	10
Customer heterogeneity and innovation‐based competitive strategy: A review, synthesis, and research agenda	10
Microfoundations of dynamic design capabilities: An empirical analysis of “excellent” Italian design firms	10
Hybrid innovation logics: Exploratory product development with users in a corporate makerspace	9
Play and psychological safety: An ethnography of innovative work	9
How are We Faring? Reflections on Coronavirus and its Effects on the Innovation Management Scholarly Community	9
Envisioning innovation opportunities through science fiction	9
CEOs' marital status and corporate innovation	9
Which effort pays off? Analyzing ideators’ behavioral patterns on corporate ideation platforms	9
Reviewing the intellectual structure of product modularization: Toward a common view and future research agenda	9
Innovation is not entrepreneurship, nor vice versa	8
The dark side of business model innovation: An empirical investigation into the evolvement of customer resistance and the effectiveness of potential countermeasures	8
Designing the Future: Past and Future Trajectories for Design Innovation Research	8
Enhancing innovation via the digital twin	7
Brokerage that works: Balanced triads and the brokerage roles that matter for innovation	7

Configurations of social media‐enabled strategies for open innovation, firm performance, and their barriers to adoption	7
Supply chain innovation: Conceptualization, instrument development, and influence on supply chain performance	7
The double‐edged sword of CEO narcissism: A meta‐analysis of innovation and firm performance implications	7
Distinguishing digitization and digitalization: A systematic review and conceptual framework	6
Grand challenges and emerging market small and medium enterprises: The role of strategic agility and gender diversity	6
Best practices in new product development and innovation: Results from PDMA's 2021 global survey	6
When firms embrace science: University alliances and firm drug development pipeline	6
Paradoxes of implementing digital manufacturing systems: A longitudinal study of digital innovation projects for disruptive change	6
Entrepreneurship and innovation in a metropolis: Education and policy implications in Hong Kong	6
Rapid validity testing at the front end of innovation	6
Paving a path for a post‐COVID‐19 innovative environment	6
Atypical package design and product category prestige	5
Interconnected digital twins and the future of digital manufacturing: Insights from a Delphi study	5
Crowdfunding performance, market performance, and the moderating roles of product innovativeness and experts' judgment: Evidence from the movie industry	5
Continuity, Change, and New Product Performance: The Role of Stream Concentration^*	5
Entrepreneurship and new product development: Exploring the “advantage of youth” and “business acumen” views	5
Grand challenges and platform ecosystems: Scaling solutions for wicked ecological and societal problems	5
Related and unrelated product diversification and collaboration strategies: Comparison between the pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical industries	5
Tackling pandemic‐related health grand challenges: The role of organizational ambidexterity, social equality, and innovation performance	5
How do grand challenges determine, drive and influence the innovation efforts of for‐profit firms? A multidimensional analysis	4
No innovation without entrepreneurship: From passion to practice	4
The effects of exposure to others' ideas and their ratings on online crowdsourcing platforms on the quantity and novelty of subsequently generated ideas	4
“Distance” in intellectual property protection and MNEs’ foreign subsidiary innovation performance	4
Accelerating innovation and protecting organizations: Pluralism in the COVID‐19 age	4
Transitioning additive manufacturing from rapid prototyping to high‐volume production: A case study of complex final products	4
From the Editors: A Catalyst and Special Issue on Design Thinking and Innovation	3
Sustainable innovation: Additive manufacturing and the emergence of a cyclical take‐make‐transmigrate process at a pioneering industry–university collaboration	3
Another day, another chance: Daily workplace experiences and their impact on creativity	3
Tackling grand societal challenges: Understanding when and how reverse engineering fosters frugal product innovation in an emerging market	3
Will haste make waste: A counter‐point to the benefits of accelerating innovations	2
Innovation's domain: The need for a sharper yet broader focus	2
Capturing product/service improvement ideas from social media based on lead user theory	2
Board gender diversity, feminine culture, and innovation for environmental sustainability	2
The professionalization of innovation management: Evolution and implications	2
Do business customers perceive what salespeople believe? Perceptions of salesperson adoption of innovations	2
Spinning straw into gold: Innovation recycling, innovation sourcing modes, and innovation ability in Sub‐Saharan Africa	2
Converting inventions into innovations to address cancer grand challenges: The role of scientific and digital search intensity	2
How can platforms decrease their dependence on traditional indirect network effects? Innovating using platform envelopment	2
Digital manufacturing and innovation	2
How firms realign to tackle the grand challenge of climate change: An innovation ecosystems perspective	2
Technology strategies in converging technology systems: Evidence from printed electronics	2
Artificial intelligence in innovation management: A review of innovation capabilities and a taxonomy of AI applications	2
From the Editors: Introducing the new JPIM look and stimulating the conversation on accelerated innovation	2
Is proximity better? The geographical proximity of financial resources and green innovation	2
From the Editors: Engaging with generative artificial intelligence technologies in innovation management research—Some answers and more questions	2
Deflected by the tin foil hat? Word‐of‐mouth, conspiracy beliefs, and the adoption of innovative public health apps	2
A time to consider, a time to deliver: The independent and interactive effects of regulatory mode on innovative work behavior	2
Addressing the grand challenges of poverty with data‐driven creative service offerings	2
Growing with smart products: Why customization capabilities matter for manufacturing firms	2
This is what you came for? University–industry collaborations and follow‐on inventions by the firm	2