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Innovation Generating and Evaluation: The Impact of Change Management

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The advancement of technology, economic pressures, and globalization are only three of many other factors forcing companies to review the way to operate.

Innovation has nothing to do with how many R&D dollars you have … it’s not about money. It’s about the people you have, how you’re led, and how much you get it.Steve Jobs, interview with Fortune Magazine (1998); quoted after Tidd (2005), 467.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    Oakland and Tanner (2007), 1.

  2. 2.

    By (2005), 378.

  3. 3.

    Quoted after Picot et al. (1999), 1.

  4. 4.

    Krüger (2006a), 25; Vahs (2007), 267.

  5. 5.

    Daft (2004), 400.

  6. 6.

    Daft (2004), 400; Krüger (2006a), 25 pp.; Staehle (1999), 900.

  7. 7.

    DiBella (2007), 233.

  8. 8.

    DiBella (2007), 233.

  9. 9.

    Cacaci (2006), 41p.; Heberle and Stolzenberg (2006), 5; Vahs (2007), 281.

  10. 10.

    Vahs (2007), 319 and 328.

  11. 11.

    Allen, Jimmieson, Bordia, and Irmer (2007).

  12. 12.

    Christensen (2006), XV and 3pp.; Antoniou and Ansoff (2004), 275; Ansoff (1977), 77; Tidd et al. 18pp.; see subchapter 4.2.

  13. 13.

    Thom and Müller (2006), 251.

  14. 14.

    Siguaw, Simpson, and Enz (2006), 570.

  15. 15.

    Siguaw et al. (2006), 570.

  16. 16.

    Oakland and Tanner (2007), 12.

  17. 17.

    Vahs and Burmester (2005), 80p.

  18. 18.

    Seidenschwarz (2003), 54; translation by the authors.

  19. 19.

    Tidd et al. (2005), 17p.; see next subchapter and Fig. 4.2.

  20. 20.

    Stern and Jaberg (2007), 20 and 27.

  21. 21.

    Hauschildt and Salomo (2007), 206; translation by the authors.

  22. 22.

    Hauschildt and Salomo (2007), 183pp.; Vahs (2007), 329pp.

  23. 23.

    Stern and Jaberg (2007), 84.

  24. 24.

    Hauschildt and Salomo (2007), 29; Krüger (2006a), 41p.; Manimala, Jose, and Thomas (2006), 56; Stern and Jaberg (2007), 21.

  25. 25.

    Spath, Hirsch-Kreinsen, and Kinkel (2008), 11.

  26. 26.

    Krüger (2006a), 34pp.; Vahs (2007), 375pp.

  27. 27.

    Krüger (2006a), 34; translation by the authors.

  28. 28.

    Krüger (2006b), 135.

  29. 29.

    Vahs (2007), 340p.

  30. 30.

    Fugate, Kinicki, and Prussia (2008), 31.

  31. 31.

    Tidd et al. (2005), 17p.

  32. 32.

    Tidd et al. (2005), 18.

  33. 33.

    Tidd et al. (2005), 18.

  34. 34.

    Oakland and Tanner (2007), 12pp.

  35. 35.

    Atoniou and Ansoff (2004), 275; Ansoff (1977), 77.

  36. 36.

    Christensen (2006), 3p.

  37. 37.

    Christensen (2006), 4.

  38. 38.

    Christensen (2006), 3pp.

  39. 39.

    Tidd et al. (2005), 468.

  40. 40.

    Vahs and Burmester (2005), 360pp.

  41. 41.

    Tidd et. al. (2005), 468pp.

  42. 42.

    Mintzberg (2007), 25.

  43. 43.

    Seidenschwarz (2003), 60.

  44. 44.

    Tidd et al. (2005), 471.

  45. 45.

    Cooper and Kleinschmidt (2007), 57.

  46. 46.

    Cooper and Kleinschmidt (2007), 57.

  47. 47.

    Ernst (2003).

  48. 48.

    Cameron and Freeman (1991), 27.

  49. 49.

    Ernst (2003), 37pp.

  50. 50.

    Hauschildt and Salomo (2007), 111pp.

  51. 51.

    Hauschildt and Salomo (2007), 113.

  52. 52.

    Bonner et al. (2001), 233, Stern and Jaberg (2007), 8.

  53. 53.

    Tidd et al. (2005), 349pp.

  54. 54.

    Tidd et al. (2005), 405pp.

  55. 55.

    Hauschildt and Salomo (2007), 495pp.

  56. 56.

    Cooper and Kleinschmidt (2007), 57.

  57. 57.

    Schmelzer and Sesselmann (2008), 371; translation by the authors.

  58. 58.

    Schmelzer and Sesselmann (2008), 311p.

  59. 59.

    Pendlebury, Grouard, and Meston (1998), 119; Seidenschwarz (2003), 54; Vahs (2007), 393.

  60. 60.

    Ernst (2003).

  61. 61.

    Ozer (1999), 77.

  62. 62.

    Reichwald, Meyer, Engelmann, and Welcher (2007), 15.

  63. 63.

    Thom and Müller (2006), 252.

  64. 64.

    Tidd et al. (2005), 87; Cooper (1998).

  65. 65.

    Hauschildt and Salomo (2007), 527.

  66. 66.

    Cooper (2008), 213.

  67. 67.

    Cooper (1998), 95; also see Hart et al. (2003); Birkenmeier and Brodbeck (2005), 306; Lühring (2006).

  68. 68.

    Canez (2007), 49.

  69. 69.

    Hart et al. (2003), 27; Ozer (1999), 78; Cooper (1998), 109; Cooper (2008), 213.

  70. 70.

    Cooper (1998), 107; Cooper (2008), 215.

  71. 71.

    Cooper (1998), 109p.

  72. 72.

    Cooper (1998), 108; Hart et al. (2003), 27.

  73. 73.

    Cooper (1998), 124p.

  74. 74.

    Herstatt and von Hippel (1992).

  75. 75.

    Cooper (2008), 231.

  76. 76.

    Cooper (2008), 225.

  77. 77.

    Cooper (1998), 108pp.

  78. 78.

    Cooper (1998), 116.

  79. 79.

    Cooper (1998), 108pp.

  80. 80.

    Tidd et al. (2005), 98, 362pp.

  81. 81.

    Tidd et al. (2005), 362p.

  82. 82.

    Cooper (1998), 108pp., 124p.

  83. 83.

    Tidd et al. (2005), 357.

  84. 84.

    For example Grün (2005); Apenburg (2006), 19.

  85. 85.

    Chmielewski and Guynn (2009).

  86. 86.

    Goldbrunner (2006), 31.

  87. 87.

    Cooper (2008), 224.

  88. 88.

    Cooper (1998), 98p.

  89. 89.

    Cooper (1998), 96pp.

  90. 90.

    Harmancioglu et al. (2007), 422.

  91. 91.

    Cooper (2008), 223.

  92. 92.

    Goldbrunner (2006).

  93. 93.

    Hauschildt and Salomo (2007), 568p.

  94. 94.

    Hart et al. (2003).

  95. 95.

    The first three dimensions are based on the research of Griffin and Page ((1993), 294). They did a secondary analysis of 77 published articles concerning new product success measures (Griffin and Page (1993), 292).

  96. 96.

    Hart et al. (2003), 28.

  97. 97.

    Desouza et al. (2008), Reichwald et al. (2007).

  98. 98.

    Sakkab and Huston (2006), 24.

  99. 99.

    Sakkab and Huston (2006), 30.

  100. 100.

    Innovation strategy: technological innovator, fast imitator, cost reducer; product type: line addition, improvement, completely new; new product development driver: market or technology driven (Hart et al. (2003), 26).

  101. 101.

    Hart et al. (2003), 33pp.

  102. 102.

    Hauser and Zettelmeyer (1997), 33.

  103. 103.

    Hart et al. (2003).

  104. 104.

    Tidd et al. (2005), 362p.

  105. 105.

    Tidd et al. (2005), 73.

  106. 106.

    Vahs and Burmester (2005), 365; Schoemaker and Gunther (2006).

  107. 107.

    Tidd et al. (2005), 400pp.

  108. 108.

    Cooper (1998), 128p.

  109. 109.

    Ashford, Lee, and Bobko (1989), 821.

  110. 110.

    Balmer, Invesini, Planta, and von Semmer (2000), 130.

  111. 111.

    Cooper (2008), 224.

  112. 112.

    Bonner, Ruekert, and Walker (2001), 234.

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Vahs, D., Koch, V., Kielkopf, M. (2010). Innovation Generating and Evaluation: The Impact of Change Management. In: Gerybadze, A., Hommel, U., Reiners, H., Thomaschewski, D. (eds) Innovation and International Corporate Growth. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-10823-5_10

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