OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Product Innovation Management is 2. 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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Digital Transformation and Innovation Management: A Synthesis of Existing Research and an Agenda for Future Studies	236
Big Data for Creating and Capturing Value in the Digitalized Environment: Unpacking the Effects of Volume, Variety, and Veracity on Firm Performance*	156
A Self‐Tuning Model for Smart Manufacturing SMEs: Effects on Digital Innovation	133
The Digital Transformation of Search and Recombination in the Innovation Function: Tensions and an Integrative Framework*	109
The Transformation of the Innovation Process: How Digital Tools are Changing Work, Collaboration, and Organizations in New Product Development*	108
Smart Products: Conceptual Review, Synthesis, and Research Directions*	93
Digital Transformation Through Exploratory and Exploitative Internet of Things Innovations: The Impact of Family Management and Technological Diversification*	76
The origin and evolution of Stanford University’s design thinking: From product design to design thinking in innovation management	73
Framing the microfoundations of design thinking as a dynamic capability for innovation: Reconciling theory and practice	66
The Gordian Knot of Practicing Digital Transformation: Coping with Emergent Paradoxes in Ambidextrous Organizing Structures*	64
Augmenting human innovation teams with artificial intelligence: Exploring transformer‐based language models	63
Accelerating innovation: Some lessons from the pandemic	62
Technology Push or Market Pull? Strategic Orientation in Business Model Design and Digital Start‐up Performance*	61
The more the merrier? Chinese government R&D subsidies, dependence, and firm innovation performance	54
Reviewing the Field of External Knowledge Search for Innovation: Theoretical Underpinnings and Future (Re‐)search Directions	49
From Empowerment Dynamics to Team Adaptability: Exploring and Conceptualizing the Continuous Agile Team Innovation Process	47
Facilitating business model innovation: The influence of sustainability and the mediating role of strategic orientations	47
Team Design Thinking, Product Innovativeness, and the Moderating Role of Problem Unfamiliarity	43
Nonfinancial Considerations in Eco‐Innovation Decisions: The Role of Family Ownership and Reputation Concerns	42
Digital product innovation management: Balancing stability and fluidity through formalization	40
Extrinsic Rewards, Intrinsic Motivation, and New Product Development Performance	38
Design thinking: Critical analysis and future evolution	37
Entrepreneurial ways of designing and designerly ways of entrepreneuring: Exploring the relationship between design thinking and effectuation theory	32
Sustaining Complement Quality for Digital Product Platforms: A Case Study of the Philips Hue Ecosystem	32
Digital reframing: The design thinking of redesigning traditional products into innovative digital products	28

How experts screen ideas: The complex interplay of intuition, analysis and sensemaking	26
Design thinking implementation for innovation: An organization's journey to ambidexterity	25
The effects of university–industry collaboration in preclinical research on pharmaceutical firms’ R&D performance: Absorptive capacity’s role	25
Innovative idea generation in problem finding: Abductive reasoning, cognitive impediments, and the promise of artificial intelligence	24
Mitigating the dark side of agile teams: Peer pressure, leaders’ control, and the innovative output of agile teams	24
The effect of CEO regulatory focus on changes to investments in R&D	23
Leveraging resources for innovation: The role of synchronization	23
Design thinking as sensemaking: Developing a pragmatist theory of practice to (re)introduce sensibility	21
Disrupting the Disruptors or Enhancing Them? How Blockchain Reshapes Two‐Sided Platforms	21
Moving toward responsible value creation: Business model challenges faced by organizations producing responsible health innovations	20
From ego‐systems to open innovation ecosystems: A process model of inter‐firm openness	19
The effects of institutional investors on firms' green innovation	19
Post‐Failure Success: Sensemaking in Problem Representation Reformulation	18
The ambivalent role of monetary sales incentives in service innovation selling	17
Best practices in new product development and innovation: Results from PDMA's 2021 global survey	17
When change is all around: How dynamic network capability and generative NPD learning shape a firm’s capacity for major innovation	16
Organizational antecedents to bootlegging and consequences for the newness of the innovation portfolio	15
Born to rebel? The owner birth order and R&D investments in Chinese family firms	15
Strategic and cultural contexts of real options reasoning in innovation portfolios	14
When cultures collide: What can we learn from frictions in the implementation of design thinking?	14
Making Sense of an Interconnected World: How Innovation Champions Drive Social Innovation in the Not‐for‐Profit Context	14
Customer heterogeneity and innovation‐based competitive strategy: A review, synthesis, and research agenda	14
Narcissistic CEOs' dilemma: The trade‐off between exploration and exploitation and the moderating role of performance feedback	14
The road ahead is digital for innovation management and there is no way back	14
Front End Transfers of Digital Innovations in a Hybrid Agile‐Stage‐Gate Setting	13
Envisioning innovation opportunities through science fiction	13
The double‐edged sword of CEO narcissism: A meta‐analysis of innovation and firm performance implications	13
Which effort pays off? Analyzing ideators’ behavioral patterns on corporate ideation platforms	13
Digital Machines, Space, and Time: Towards a Behavioral Perspective of Flexible Manufacturing	13
Interpersonal relationships and creativity at work: A network building perspective	13
Leadership in innovation communities: The impact of transformational leadership language on member participation	13
Microfoundations of dynamic design capabilities: An empirical analysis of “excellent” Italian design firms	12
Hybrid innovation logics: Exploratory product development with users in a corporate makerspace	12
The human side of innovation management: Bridging the divide between the fields of innovation management and organizational behavior	12
Reaching for the stars: When does basic research collaboration between firms and academic star scientists benefit firm invention performance?	12
Innovation is not entrepreneurship, nor vice versa	11
Enhancing innovation via the digital twin	11
Converting technological inventions into new products: The role of CEO human capital	11
Innovation or entrepreneurship: Which comes first? Exploring the implications for higher education	11
New product advantage infused by modularity: Do resources make a difference?	11
CEOs' marital status and corporate innovation	11
Facing the heat: Political instability and firm new product innovation in sub‐Saharan Africa	11
The dark side of business model innovation: An empirical investigation into the evolvement of customer resistance and the effectiveness of potential countermeasures	11
Setting contextual conditions to resolve grand challenges through responsible innovation: A comparative patent analysis in the circular economy	10
Illuminating opposing performance effects of stressors in innovation teams	10
Reviewing the intellectual structure of product modularization: Toward a common view and future research agenda	10
Distinguishing digitization and digitalization: A systematic review and conceptual framework	10
How are We Faring? Reflections on Coronavirus and its Effects on the Innovation Management Scholarly Community	9
Supply chain innovation: Conceptualization, instrument development, and influence on supply chain performance	9
Play and psychological safety: An ethnography of innovative work	9

Designing the Future: Past and Future Trajectories for Design Innovation Research	8
Grand challenges and emerging market small and medium enterprises: The role of strategic agility and gender diversity	7
Artificial intelligence in innovation management: A review of innovation capabilities and a taxonomy of AI applications	7
Rapid validity testing at the front end of innovation	7
Brokerage that works: Balanced triads and the brokerage roles that matter for innovation	7
Configurations of social media‐enabled strategies for open innovation, firm performance, and their barriers to adoption	7
Crowdfunding performance, market performance, and the moderating roles of product innovativeness and experts' judgment: Evidence from the movie industry	7
Entrepreneurship and innovation in a metropolis: Education and policy implications in Hong Kong	7
Interconnected digital twins and the future of digital manufacturing: Insights from a Delphi study	7
Tackling grand societal challenges: Understanding when and how reverse engineering fosters frugal product innovation in an emerging market	6
When firms embrace science: University alliances and firm drug development pipeline	6
Paradoxes of implementing digital manufacturing systems: A longitudinal study of digital innovation projects for disruptive change	6
Tackling pandemic‐related health grand challenges: The role of organizational ambidexterity, social equality, and innovation performance	6
Grand challenges and platform ecosystems: Scaling solutions for wicked ecological and societal problems	6
Related and unrelated product diversification and collaboration strategies: Comparison between the pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical industries	6
Entrepreneurship and new product development: Exploring the “advantage of youth” and “business acumen” views	6
Paving a path for a post‐COVID‐19 innovative environment	6
Atypical package design and product category prestige	5
Transitioning additive manufacturing from rapid prototyping to high‐volume production: A case study of complex final products	5
Accelerating innovation and protecting organizations: Pluralism in the COVID‐19 age	4
Digital manufacturing and innovation	4
No innovation without entrepreneurship: From passion to practice	4
Another day, another chance: Daily workplace experiences and their impact on creativity	4
Sustainable innovation: Additive manufacturing and the emergence of a cyclical take‐make‐transmigrate process at a pioneering industry–university collaboration	4
The effects of exposure to others' ideas and their ratings on online crowdsourcing platforms on the quantity and novelty of subsequently generated ideas	4
“Distance” in intellectual property protection and MNEs’ foreign subsidiary innovation performance	4
How do different network positions affect crowd members' success in crowdsourcing challenges?	4
Board gender diversity, feminine culture, and innovation for environmental sustainability	3
Growing with smart products: Why customization capabilities matter for manufacturing firms	3
How do grand challenges determine, drive and influence the innovation efforts of for‐profit firms? A multidimensional analysis	3
CEO narcissism and innovation ambidexterity: The moderating roles of CEO power and firm reputation	3
How firms realign to tackle the grand challenge of climate change: An innovation ecosystems perspective	3
Overcoming the negative role of nostalgia in consumer reactions to automated products	3
Do business customers perceive what salespeople believe? Perceptions of salesperson adoption of innovations	3
Converting inventions into innovations to address cancer grand challenges: The role of scientific and digital search intensity	3
Capturing product/service improvement ideas from social media based on lead user theory	3
Addressing the grand challenges of poverty with data‐driven creative service offerings	3
The professionalization of innovation management: Evolution and implications	3
Spinning straw into gold: Innovation recycling, innovation sourcing modes, and innovation ability in Sub‐Saharan Africa	3
Behavioral influences on the relationship between firms' aspiration performance gap and innovation input: The moderating role of executives' vocational socialization	3
From the Editors: A Catalyst and Special Issue on Design Thinking and Innovation	3
Global eco‐innovation and its local impact in emerging economies: Boundary conditions of environmental regulations and pollution intensity	2
Framing innovation success, failure, and transformation: A systematic literature review	2
This is what you came for? University–industry collaborations and follow‐on inventions by the firm	2
Is proximity better? The geographical proximity of financial resources and green innovation	2
From the Editors: Engaging with generative artificial intelligence technologies in innovation management research—Some answers and more questions	2
How can platforms decrease their dependence on traditional indirect network effects? Innovating using platform envelopment	2
The combined impact of direct and indirect ties on innovation: The moderating role of similarity in alliance subtypes	2
Tackling exigent grand challenges through corporate social innovation: Evidence from the COVID‐19 pandemic	2
Will haste make waste: A counter‐point to the benefits of accelerating innovations	2
Business model innovation: Integrative review, framework, and agenda for future innovation management research	2
Customers driving a firm's responsible innovation response for grand challenges: A co‐active issue‐selling perspective	2
When necessity is the mother of disruption: Users versus producers as sources of disruptive innovation	2
A time to consider, a time to deliver: The independent and interactive effects of regulatory mode on innovative work behavior	2
A tale of two distractions: How institutional forces influence R&D‐based problemistic search in transition economies	2
Technology strategies in converging technology systems: Evidence from printed electronics	2
From the Editors: Introducing the new JPIM look and stimulating the conversation on accelerated innovation	2
Innovation's domain: The need for a sharper yet broader focus	2
Deflected by the tin foil hat? Word‐of‐mouth, conspiracy beliefs, and the adoption of innovative public health apps	2