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, 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 exhibit lead user characteristics in relation to their employing firm’s products or services. Examples for this phenomenon exist amongst others in the sporting industry in which users of sporting goods are at the same time employed by manufacturers of these goods. In three consecutive studies TimSchweisfurth explores how embedded lead users contribute to corporate innovation. He shows what factors foster the lead userness of employees and what characterizes embedded lead users’ behaviors. Various implications for firms are discussed, e.g. with respect to leveraging 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.