Embedded Lead Users inside the Firm: How Innovative User Employees contribute to the Corporate Product Innovation Process - Couverture souple

Schweisfurth, Tim

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 3658000651 ISBN 13 : 9783658000653

Editeur : Springer Gabler, 2012

Synopsis

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 Tim Schweisfurth 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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Springer Gabler
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 3658000651
• ISBN 13: 9783658000653
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 244
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