Marketing Topics

• Reports

  Interpretive Barriers to Successful Product Innovation

  Jan 1, 1989 Deborah Dougherty, 1989, 89-114

  Identifies specific organizational and social factors that impede interdepartmental collaboration on new products and suggests ways of overcoming them.

• Reports

  Leapfrogging Behavior and the Purchase of Industrial Innovations

  Jan 1, 1989 Allen M. Weiss and George John, 1989, 89-110

  Attempts to understand and explain leapfrog behavior, or the practice of deferring the purchase of available technology in anticipation of future improvements.

• Reports

  Central Problems in the Management of Innovation

  Jan 1, 1985 Andrew H. Van De Ven, 1985, 85-109

  Discusses basic problems most general managers face in managing innovation; proposes a number of solutions for managing innovation within organizations.