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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

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Sustainable innovation: Additive manufacturing and the emergence of a cyclical take‐make‐transmigrate process at a pioneering industry–university collaboration	127
How do different network positions affect crowd members' success in crowdsourcing challenges?	92
Tackling grand societal challenges: Understanding when and how reverse engineering fosters frugal product innovation in an emerging market	67
CEO narcissism and innovation ambidexterity: The moderating roles of CEO power and firm reputation	62
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Behavioral influences on the relationship between firms' aspiration performance gap and innovation input: The moderating role of executives' vocational socialization	50
Is proximity better? The geographical proximity of financial resources and green innovation	47
Do external founder CEOs place strategic emphasis on innovation? An upper echelons perspective	46
Tackling pandemic‐related health grand challenges: The role of organizational ambidexterity, social equality, and innovation performance	44
From the editors: Passing the baton	42
Spinning straw into gold: Innovation recycling, innovation sourcing modes, and innovation ability in Sub‐Saharan Africa	40
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The uncertainty‐handling function of project leaders' political behavior in breakthrough innovation	39
Co‐creating innovation ecosystems in contexts of absolute uncertainty: The case of low‐cost heart valves in India	36
Building more entrepreneurial organizations through external innovation contests	34
Which effort pays off? Analyzing ideators’ behavioral patterns on corporate ideation platforms	33
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Crowdsourcing for addressing grand challenges: Sponsor‐challenge fit, identified motivation, and the intention to submit	29

Special issue guest editorial: “Advancing broad and deep understanding in innovation management: Meta‐analyses and literature reviews”	29
Too much incentive to innovate? CEO stock option exercise and myopic R&D management	28
The combined impact of direct and indirect ties on innovation: The moderating role of similarity in alliance subtypes	26
How does failure normalization foster product innovativeness in new product development? The role of passion and learning	26
Augmenting human innovation teams with artificial intelligence: Exploring transformer‐based language models	26
The ambivalent role of monetary sales incentives in service innovation selling	25
Reaching for the stars: When does basic research collaboration between firms and academic star scientists benefit firm invention performance?	25
Atypical package design and product category prestige	24
How firms realign to tackle the grand challenge of climate change: An innovation ecosystems perspective	24
CEOs' marital status and corporate innovation	22
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Mitigating the dark side of agile teams: Peer pressure, leaders’ control, and the innovative output of agile teams	21
A good neighbor, a found treasure: Do local neighbors affect corporate innovation?	21
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A time to consider, a time to deliver: The independent and interactive effects of regulatory mode on innovative work behavior	21
Global eco‐innovation and its local impact in emerging economies: Boundary conditions of environmental regulations and pollution intensity	20
Distinguishing digitization and digitalization: A systematic review and conceptual framework	20
Innovation in the sharing economy: Examining Uber's transformation	20
When necessity is the mother of disruption: Users versus producers as sources of disruptive innovation	19
The role of innovation in for‐profit firms' tackling of grand challenges: Special issue editorial	19
Absorptive capacity in a more (or less) absorptive environment: A meta‐analysis of contextual effects on firm innovation	19
Related and unrelated product diversification and collaboration strategies: Comparison between the pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical industries	19
Translating agile management practices into a traditional industry context	19
Marketing innovations and digital technologies: A systematic review, proposed framework, and future research agenda	19
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When cultures collide: What can we learn from frictions in the implementation of design thinking?	19
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Using technology broadcasting to explore market applications: The moderating role of a firm's domain‐specific and general knowledge	18
Another day, another chance: Daily workplace experiences and their impact on creativity	18
Changing the geographic scope of collaboration: Implications for product innovation novelty and commercialization	17
This is what you came for? University–industry collaborations and follow‐on inventions by the firm	17
Opening thoughts from the new Editors	16
“Distance” in intellectual property protection and MNEs’ foreign subsidiary innovation performance	15
Entrepreneurial ways of designing and designerly ways of entrepreneuring: Exploring the relationship between design thinking and effectuation theory	15
Play and psychological safety: An ethnography of innovative work	15
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Telling (mis)fitting new product stories: The role of consumer orientations, product innovativeness, and message framing on new product evaluations	15
The professionalization of innovation management: Evolution and implications	14
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Framing the microfoundations of design thinking as a dynamic capability for innovation: Reconciling theory and practice	14
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Innovation or entrepreneurship: Which comes first? Exploring the implications for higher education	13
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Innovation is not entrepreneurship, nor vice versa	13
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Moving toward responsible value creation: Business model challenges faced by organizations producing responsible health innovations	12
Inside the technology showroom: Sequence of technology demonstrations and willingness to collaborate	12

When firms embrace science: University alliances and firm drug development pipeline	12
Your innovation or mine? The effects of partner diversity on product and process innovation	11
Board political ideological diversity and information exposure as antecedents to value creation and value appropriation	11
Illuminating opposing performance effects of stressors in innovation teams	11
The evolution and disintegration of innovation narratives during scaling in science‐based ventures	11
Fueling innovation management research: Future directions and five forward‐looking paths	10
Are you judging me or my idea? How feedback impacts future idea success in web‐based idea management systems	10
Employee acceptance of digital transformation strategies: A paradox perspective	10
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The innovator's media dilemma: How journalists cover incumbents' adoption of discontinuous technologies	9
The creative process of problem framing for innovation: An integrative review and research agenda	9
Recognize your audience: Stakeholders' coaptation work to improve political representation in innovation programs	9
Customers driving a firm's responsible innovation response for grand challenges: A co‐active issue‐selling perspective	9
Understanding older consumers' new product‐related information behaviors—A life‐span theory perspective	9
From the Editors: Engaging with generative artificial intelligence technologies in innovation management research—Some answers and more questions	8
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Building design as a dynamic capability: A model for design integration	8
Digital manufacturing and innovation	8
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The human side of innovation management: Bridging the divide between the fields of innovation management and organizational behavior	8
Innovation's domain: The need for a sharper yet broader focus	8
Orchestrating resources with suppliers for product innovation	7
Envisioning innovation opportunities through science fiction	7
The contagious nature of pre‐release consumer buzz: How observing other consumers' anticipation for a new product influences adoption	7
Do business customers perceive what salespeople believe? Perceptions of salesperson adoption of innovations	6
Managing digital transformation with blockchain: Distributed ledger innovation platforms	6
Innovative idea generation in problem finding: Abductive reasoning, cognitive impediments, and the promise of artificial intelligence	6
Do you need a chief technology officer? The effect of appointing a CTO on innovation activities in high‐tech new ventures	6
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The effects of university–industry collaboration in preclinical research on pharmaceutical firms’ R&D performance: Absorptive capacity’s role	6
Different settings, different terms and conditions: The impact of intellectual property arrangements on co‐creation project performance	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
Board gender diversity, feminine culture, and innovation for environmental sustainability	5
The effect of CEO regulatory focus on changes to investments in R&D	5
Preparing a successful submission for JPIM	5
Interpersonal relationships and creativity at work: A network building perspective	5
Stakeholder engagement with AI service interactions	5
Microfoundations for business model innovation: Exploring the interplay between individuals, practices, and organizational design	5
Rapid validity testing at the front end of innovation	4
Co‐creating the future through design thinking: Deconstructing the consumer co‐creation process	4
Facing the heat: Political instability and firm new product innovation in sub‐Saharan Africa	4
A tale of two distractions: How institutional forces influence R&D‐based problemistic search in transition economies	4
Design thinking implementation for innovation: An organization's journey to ambidexterity	4
The AI‐augmented crowd: How human crowdvoters adopt AI (or not)	4
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Together forever? How customer co‐creation affects the adoption of digital service innovations over time	3
Development of a multidimensional scale to measure organizational creative capabilities	3
Direct and indirect effects of degree of interdisciplinarity on firms' innovation performance: The moderating role of firms' capabilities	3
The effects of institutional investors on firms' green innovation	3
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Narcissistic CEOs' dilemma: The trade‐off between exploration and exploitation and the moderating role of performance feedback	3
Reviewing the intellectual structure of product modularization: Toward a common view and future research agenda	3
Same model, same data, but different outcomes: Evaluating the impact of method choices in structural equation modeling	3