Network-based market knowledge and product innovativeness

Bao, Yongchuan; Sheng, Shibin; Zhou, Kevin Zheng

doi:10.1007/s11002-011-9155-0

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“…The rich information flow from outside sources broadens firms' R&D activities, enabling them to engage in out-of-the-box thinking when undertaking innovative product development. Recently, Bao et al (2012) found that market knowledge search breadth is positively related to new product innovativeness and that this positive effect increases as search breadth increases. Klingebiel and Rammer (2014) provide empirical evidence that acquiring resources from a wide variety of providers could encourage firms to embrace new product development projects with unproven futures, i.e., radical new products.…”

Section: Green Management and Product Innovationmentioning

confidence: 99%

How Green Management Influences Product Innovation in China: The Role of Institutional Benefits

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Does being green facilitate product innovation? This study examines whether green management in firms operating in China fosters radical product innovation to a greater extent than it does incremental product innovation and investigates the underlying institutional mechanisms involved in the relationship between green management and product innovation. The findings show that green management is more likely to lead to radical product innovation than to incremental product innovation. Moreover, government support as a formal institutional benefit more strongly mediates the effect of green management on radical product innovation than its effect on incremental product innovation; whereas social legitimacy as an informal institutional benefit more strongly mediates the effect of green management on incremental product innovation than its effect on radical product innovation. These findings provide important implications for explaining how firms employ green management to facilitate product innovation.

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Section: Green Management and Product Innovationmentioning

confidence: 99%

How Green Management Influences Product Innovation in China: The Role of Institutional Benefits

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“…However the term 'product innovativeness' should be clarified because a product can be new, either to the world or to the industry/market, or to the firm (Garcia & Calantone, 2002). Many studies conceptualize this term with regard to the market (Bao et al, 2012;Fang, 2008) because the most important verification of a new product is its market acceptance. Organizations develop and introduce new products in order to satisfy their customers' needs in a more effective way and thereby gain a competitive advantage as well as increased profit.…”

Section: Theoretical Background and Hypotheses Developmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Apart from customers and competitors other market entities may also serve as sources of market information (Bao et al, 2012). Kyriakopoulos (2011) argues that external sources generate more novel information than internal ones and market information from the former tends to exhibit diversity and a fresh perspective (Moorman, 1995).…”

Section: Theoretical Background and Hypotheses Developmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…However product innovations differ in terms of their innovativeness. New products bring varying degrees of novelty to the market and empirical research has shown that product innovativeness is related to commercial performance (Bao, Sheng, & Zhou, 2012). Therefore looking for the drivers of product innovativeness is an important issue because these drivers can be transmitted to the product's commercial performance through product innovativeness.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Different sources of market information and product innovativeness

Dąbrowski

2018

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: The purpose of this study is to identify whether the gathering of market information from different sources -i.e. from customers, competitors and other entities -is related to product innovativeness. The relationships proposed so far have not been empirically investigated but they can have important theoretical and practical implications for product innovation. To achieve the purpose of the paper data concerning 287 new products were used by applying confirmatory factor analysis and structural equation modelling. The findings indicate that the obtaining of market information from customers and market entities, other than customers and competitors, has a positive impact on product innovativeness, but there was no such relationship in the case of gathering information from competitors.

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“…We deleted one item from the four after the pretest because of its low correlation with other items. However, we added two additional items to further assess a firm's new product innovativeness in its industry (Bao, Sheng, & Zhou, 2012;Fang, 2008).…”

Section: Scale Developmentmentioning

confidence: 99%