OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Product Innovation Management is 13. 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 2020-07-01 to 2024-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Digital Transformation and Innovation Management: A Synthesis of Existing Research and an Agenda for Future Studies	264
Big Data for Creating and Capturing Value in the Digitalized Environment: Unpacking the Effects of Volume, Variety, and Veracity on Firm Performance*	170
A Self‐Tuning Model for Smart Manufacturing SMEs: Effects on Digital Innovation	156
The Transformation of the Innovation Process: How Digital Tools are Changing Work, Collaboration, and Organizations in New Product Development*	125
The Digital Transformation of Search and Recombination in the Innovation Function: Tensions and an Integrative Framework*	116
Smart Products: Conceptual Review, Synthesis, and Research Directions*	99
Digital Transformation Through Exploratory and Exploitative Internet of Things Innovations: The Impact of Family Management and Technological Diversification*	84
The origin and evolution of Stanford University’s design thinking: From product design to design thinking in innovation management	83
Augmenting human innovation teams with artificial intelligence: Exploring transformer‐based language models	74
Framing the microfoundations of design thinking as a dynamic capability for innovation: Reconciling theory and practice	69
Accelerating innovation: Some lessons from the pandemic	67
The Gordian Knot of Practicing Digital Transformation: Coping with Emergent Paradoxes in Ambidextrous Organizing Structures*	66
The more the merrier? Chinese government R&D subsidies, dependence, and firm innovation performance	56
Reviewing the Field of External Knowledge Search for Innovation: Theoretical Underpinnings and Future (Re‐)search Directions	54
Facilitating business model innovation: The influence of sustainability and the mediating role of strategic orientations	53
Nonfinancial Considerations in Eco‐Innovation Decisions: The Role of Family Ownership and Reputation Concerns	46
Digital product innovation management: Balancing stability and fluidity through formalization	45
Extrinsic Rewards, Intrinsic Motivation, and New Product Development Performance	44
Design thinking: Critical analysis and future evolution	39
Sustaining Complement Quality for Digital Product Platforms: A Case Study of the Philips Hue Ecosystem	35
Entrepreneurial ways of designing and designerly ways of entrepreneuring: Exploring the relationship between design thinking and effectuation theory	34
The effects of university–industry collaboration in preclinical research on pharmaceutical firms’ R&D performance: Absorptive capacity’s role	30
How experts screen ideas: The complex interplay of intuition, analysis and sensemaking	30
Digital reframing: The design thinking of redesigning traditional products into innovative digital products	29
Design thinking implementation for innovation: An organization's journey to ambidexterity	28

Innovative idea generation in problem finding: Abductive reasoning, cognitive impediments, and the promise of artificial intelligence	28
The effects of institutional investors on firms' green innovation	27
The effect of CEO regulatory focus on changes to investments in R&D	26
Design thinking as sensemaking: Developing a pragmatist theory of practice to (re)introduce sensibility	25
Mitigating the dark side of agile teams: Peer pressure, leaders’ control, and the innovative output of agile teams	24
Leveraging resources for innovation: The role of synchronization	23
Moving toward responsible value creation: Business model challenges faced by organizations producing responsible health innovations	22
From ego‐systems to open innovation ecosystems: A process model of inter‐firm openness	21
Disrupting the Disruptors or Enhancing Them? How Blockchain Reshapes Two‐Sided Platforms	21
Best practices in new product development and innovation: Results from PDMA's 2021 global survey	20
Post‐Failure Success: Sensemaking in Problem Representation Reformulation	18
The ambivalent role of monetary sales incentives in service innovation selling	18
Customer heterogeneity and innovation‐based competitive strategy: A review, synthesis, and research agenda	17
Organizational antecedents to bootlegging and consequences for the newness of the innovation portfolio	17
When change is all around: How dynamic network capability and generative NPD learning shape a firm’s capacity for major innovation	17
Digital Machines, Space, and Time: Towards a Behavioral Perspective of Flexible Manufacturing	16
Making Sense of an Interconnected World: How Innovation Champions Drive Social Innovation in the Not‐for‐Profit Context	16
Leadership in innovation communities: The impact of transformational leadership language on member participation	15
Which effort pays off? Analyzing ideators’ behavioral patterns on corporate ideation platforms	15
The human side of innovation management: Bridging the divide between the fields of innovation management and organizational behavior	15
Narcissistic CEOs' dilemma: The trade‐off between exploration and exploitation and the moderating role of performance feedback	15
Born to rebel? The owner birth order and R&D investments in Chinese family firms	15
When cultures collide: What can we learn from frictions in the implementation of design thinking?	15
Front End Transfers of Digital Innovations in a Hybrid Agile‐Stage‐Gate Setting	15
Strategic and cultural contexts of real options reasoning in innovation portfolios	15
Innovation or entrepreneurship: Which comes first? Exploring the implications for higher education	14
The double‐edged sword of CEO narcissism: A meta‐analysis of innovation and firm performance implications	14
Distinguishing digitization and digitalization: A systematic review and conceptual framework	14
The road ahead is digital for innovation management and there is no way back	14
Microfoundations of dynamic design capabilities: An empirical analysis of “excellent” Italian design firms	13
Envisioning innovation opportunities through science fiction	13
Hybrid innovation logics: Exploratory product development with users in a corporate makerspace	13
Enhancing innovation via the digital twin	13
Converting technological inventions into new products: The role of CEO human capital	13
Facing the heat: Political instability and firm new product innovation in sub‐Saharan Africa	13
Interpersonal relationships and creativity at work: A network building perspective	13
CEOs' marital status and corporate innovation	13