Embedded Lead Users inside the Firm

How Innovative User Employees contribute to the Corporate Product Innovation Process
2013
ISBN: 978-3-658-00065-3
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, 221 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 3202 g

Reihe: Forschungs-/Entwicklungs-/Innovations-Management

The central phenomenon of this book are embedded lead users (ELUs): employees of firms who experience emerging needs and profit from solutions to these needs (i.e. who exhibit lead user characteristics) in relation to one or more of their employing firm’s products or services. In three subsequent studies I explore, how embedded lead users contribute to corporate innovation. I show which factors foster the lead userness of employees and what characterizes embedded lead users’ behaviors. This holds various implications for firms, e.g. with respect to the integration of user knowledge for innovation.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Schweisfurth, Tim

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management Forschung & Entwicklung (F&E), Innovation

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Lead User.- Innovation.- Firm boundaries.- Organizational behavior.- Boundary spanner.

Über Autor(innen)

Schweisfurth, Tim
Tim Schweisfurth completed his doctoral thesis at the Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH). He is now working at the Institute for Technology and Innovation Management as a postdoctoral researcher.

Tim Schweisfurth completed his doctoral thesis at the Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH). He is now working at the Institute for Technology and Innovation Management as a postdoctoral researcher.