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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

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Sustainable innovation: Additive manufacturing and the emergence of a cyclical take‐make‐transmigrate process at a pioneering industry–university collaboration	140
Tackling grand societal challenges: Understanding when and how reverse engineering fosters frugal product innovation in an emerging market	81
How do different network positions affect crowd members' success in crowdsourcing challenges?	81
CEO narcissism and innovation ambidexterity: The moderating roles of CEO power and firm reputation	75
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Do external founder CEOs place strategic emphasis on innovation? An upper echelons perspective	66
From the editors: Passing the baton	51
Tackling pandemic‐related health grand challenges: The role of organizational ambidexterity, social equality, and innovation performance	51
Is proximity better? The geographical proximity of financial resources and green innovation	48
Behavioral influences on the relationship between firms' aspiration performance gap and innovation input: The moderating role of executives' vocational socialization	45
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Spinning straw into gold: Innovation recycling, innovation sourcing modes, and innovation ability in Sub‐Saharan Africa	43
The uncertainty‐handling function of project leaders' political behavior in breakthrough innovation	42
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Building more entrepreneurial organizations through external innovation contests	34
Which effort pays off? Analyzing ideators’ behavioral patterns on corporate ideation platforms	34
Co‐creating innovation ecosystems in contexts of absolute uncertainty: The case of low‐cost heart valves in India	33
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Too much incentive to innovate? CEO stock option exercise and myopic R&D management	28
Special issue guest editorial: “Advancing broad and deep understanding in innovation management: Meta‐analyses and literature reviews”	28

Augmenting human innovation teams with artificial intelligence: Exploring transformer‐based language models	28
Crowdsourcing for addressing grand challenges: Sponsor‐challenge fit, identified motivation, and the intention to submit	28
Decentralization, Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence (AI): Challenges and Opportunities	27
How does failure normalization foster product innovativeness in new product development? The role of passion and learning	27
How firms realign to tackle the grand challenge of climate change: An innovation ecosystems perspective	26
The combined impact of direct and indirect ties on innovation: The moderating role of similarity in alliance subtypes	25
The ambivalent role of monetary sales incentives in service innovation selling	25
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Reaching for the stars: When does basic research collaboration between firms and academic star scientists benefit firm invention performance?	24
A good neighbor, a found treasure: Do local neighbors affect corporate innovation?	23
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A time to consider, a time to deliver: The independent and interactive effects of regulatory mode on innovative work behavior	23
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Related and unrelated product diversification and collaboration strategies: Comparison between the pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical industries	22
CEOs' marital status and corporate innovation	22
When necessity is the mother of disruption: Users versus producers as sources of disruptive innovation	22
Distinguishing digitization and digitalization: A systematic review and conceptual framework	22
Innovation in the sharing economy: Examining Uber's transformation	22
Marketing innovations and digital technologies: A systematic review, proposed framework, and future research agenda	22
Global eco‐innovation and its local impact in emerging economies: Boundary conditions of environmental regulations and pollution intensity	22
Absorptive capacity in a more (or less) absorptive environment: A meta‐analysis of contextual effects on firm innovation	21
When cultures collide: What can we learn from frictions in the implementation of design thinking?	20
The role of innovation in for‐profit firms' tackling of grand challenges: Special issue editorial	19
Translating agile management practices into a traditional industry context	19
An Empirical Study of AI Financial Advisor Adoption Through Technology Vulnerabilities in the Financial Context	19
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Using technology broadcasting to explore market applications: The moderating role of a firm's domain‐specific and general knowledge	18
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Telling (mis)fitting new product stories: The role of consumer orientations, product innovativeness, and message framing on new product evaluations	17
“Distance” in intellectual property protection and MNEs’ foreign subsidiary innovation performance	17
Play and psychological safety: An ethnography of innovative work	16
This is what you came for? University–industry collaborations and follow‐on inventions by the firm	16
Opening thoughts from the new Editors	16
Changing the geographic scope of collaboration: Implications for product innovation novelty and commercialization	16
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Innovation or entrepreneurship: Which comes first? Exploring the implications for higher education	14
The professionalization of innovation management: Evolution and implications	14
Moving toward responsible value creation: Business model challenges faced by organizations producing responsible health innovations	14
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Innovation is not entrepreneurship, nor vice versa	14
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Inside the technology showroom: Sequence of technology demonstrations and willingness to collaborate	13
Board political ideological diversity and information exposure as antecedents to value creation and value appropriation	13
The evolution and disintegration of innovation narratives during scaling in science‐based ventures	13
When firms embrace science: University alliances and firm drug development pipeline	13
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Your innovation or mine? The effects of partner diversity on product and process innovation	12
Fueling innovation management research: Future directions and five forward‐looking paths	12
Illuminating opposing performance effects of stressors in innovation teams	12
Employee acceptance of digital transformation strategies: A paradox perspective	12
The innovator's media dilemma: How journalists cover incumbents' adoption of discontinuous technologies	11
Recognize your audience: Stakeholders' coaptation work to improve political representation in innovation programs	11
From the Editors: Engaging with generative artificial intelligence technologies in innovation management research—Some answers and more questions	11
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Customers driving a firm's responsible innovation response for grand challenges: A co‐active issue‐selling perspective	10
Digital manufacturing and innovation	10
The human side of innovation management: Bridging the divide between the fields of innovation management and organizational behavior	10
Understanding older consumers' new product‐related information behaviors—A life‐span theory perspective	9
Are you judging me or my idea? How feedback impacts future idea success in web‐based idea management systems	9
The creative process of problem framing for innovation: An integrative review and research agenda	9
Building design as a dynamic capability: A model for design integration	8
Orchestrating resources with suppliers for product innovation	8
Innovation's domain: The need for a sharper yet broader focus	8
The contagious nature of pre‐release consumer buzz: How observing other consumers' anticipation for a new product influences adoption	8
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Innovative idea generation in problem finding: Abductive reasoning, cognitive impediments, and the promise of artificial intelligence	8
Do you need a chief technology officer? The effect of appointing a CTO on innovation activities in high‐tech new ventures	7
Envisioning innovation opportunities through science fiction	7
AI Platforms as Cooperation Enablers Favoring the Development of Strategic Situating Capabilities Within Solution Delivery Ecosystems	7
Do business customers perceive what salespeople believe? Perceptions of salesperson adoption of innovations	7
Managing digital transformation with blockchain: Distributed ledger innovation platforms	7
Different settings, different terms and conditions: The impact of intellectual property arrangements on co‐creation project performance	7
How do grand challenges determine, drive and influence the innovation efforts of for‐profit firms? A multidimensional analysis	6
Microfoundations for business model innovation: Exploring the interplay between individuals, practices, and organizational design	6
The AI‐augmented crowd: How human crowdvoters adopt AI (or not)	6
Stakeholder engagement with AI service interactions	6
Preparing a successful submission for JPIM	6
A tale of two distractions: How institutional forces influence R&D‐based problemistic search in transition economies	6
From the Editors: Looking Forward and Looking Back: Guidelines for the Catalyst and Review Articles in JPIM	6
Board gender diversity, feminine culture, and innovation for environmental sustainability	6
Design thinking implementation for innovation: An organization's journey to ambidexterity	5
Facing the heat: Political instability and firm new product innovation in sub‐Saharan Africa	5
Narcissistic CEOs' dilemma: The trade‐off between exploration and exploitation and the moderating role of performance feedback	5
Co‐creating the future through design thinking: Deconstructing the consumer co‐creation process	5
Overcoming the negative role of nostalgia in consumer reactions to automated products	5
Direct and indirect effects of degree of interdisciplinarity on firms' innovation performance: The moderating role of firms' capabilities	4
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
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Reviewing the intellectual structure of product modularization: Toward a common view and future research agenda	4
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The effects of institutional investors on firms' green innovation	4
Same model, same data, but different outcomes: Evaluating the impact of method choices in structural equation modeling	4