Product Champion for Successful Innovation- A Review of the Previous Literature and Challenge for the Future

Abstract

Background: This paper aims to provide discussions on product champions that are indispensable for the implementation of innovation through reviews of previous studies, and to present the issues from previous studies and the direction of future studies. Studies on product champion (hereinafter abbreviated as PC) were pioneered by Schon in the 1960s. Although the results from many researchers have been accumulated afterwards, the analysis targets have not been unified, and various analysis results tend to be handled randomly.

Champions of IS Innovations

“…• Using a more in-depth assessment of content, based on the Step 4 criteria, an additional eleven sources were excluded: seven for being non-empirical papers (Mohi Uddin, 2000;Howell, 2005;Sipior, 2005;Coakes and Smith, 2007;Molloy and Kriz, 2012;Renken and Heeks, 2013;Renken and Heeks, 2014), one due to lack of evidence of peer review (Appolis and Alexander, 2013), three because the focus was on the championing of non-technological innovations (Lichtenthaler and Ernst, 2009;Bankins et al, 2017;Fujii, 2017). • A final collection of 22 sources was yielded and formed the basis of analysis.…”