OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Product Innovation Management is 4. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

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Sustainable innovation: Additive manufacturing and the emergence of a cyclical take‐make‐transmigrate process at a pioneering industry–university collaboration	131
How do different network positions affect crowd members' success in crowdsourcing challenges?	94
CEO narcissism and innovation ambidexterity: The moderating roles of CEO power and firm reputation	74
Tackling grand societal challenges: Understanding when and how reverse engineering fosters frugal product innovation in an emerging market	70
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Do external founder CEOs place strategic emphasis on innovation? An upper echelons perspective	58
From the editors: Passing the baton	53
Tackling pandemic‐related health grand challenges: The role of organizational ambidexterity, social equality, and innovation performance	52
Is proximity better? The geographical proximity of financial resources and green innovation	46
Behavioral influences on the relationship between firms' aspiration performance gap and innovation input: The moderating role of executives' vocational socialization	46
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Which effort pays off? Analyzing ideators’ behavioral patterns on corporate ideation platforms	41
The uncertainty‐handling function of project leaders' political behavior in breakthrough innovation	38
Spinning straw into gold: Innovation recycling, innovation sourcing modes, and innovation ability in Sub‐Saharan Africa	38
Co‐creating innovation ecosystems in contexts of absolute uncertainty: The case of low‐cost heart valves in India	37
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Building more entrepreneurial organizations through external innovation contests	34
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Special issue guest editorial: “Advancing broad and deep understanding in innovation management: Meta‐analyses and literature reviews”	30
Crowdsourcing for addressing grand challenges: Sponsor‐challenge fit, identified motivation, and the intention to submit	29

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

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