Real options: Connecting with other perspectives and exploring new frontiers

A Chintakananda, DP McIntyre… - Academy of Management …, 2024 - journals.aom.org
Real options have gained considerable traction among management scholars and
practitioners, yet some challenges remain regarding their strategic value and appropriate …

Organizational Selection of Innovation

L Böttcher, R Klingebiel - Organization Science, 2024 - pubsonline.informs.org
Budgetary constraints force organizations to pursue only a subset of possible innovation
projects. Identifying which subset is most promising is an error-prone exercise, and involving …

Skills shortage and innovation

J Horbach, C Rammer - Industry and Innovation, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Skilled labour is a key input to the innovation process. A shortage in supply may impede
innovation activities and result in lower productivity gains. While governments are …

Sequencing innovation rollout: Learning opportunity versus entry speed

R Klingebiel, J Joseph… - Strategic Management …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Research summary Our article examines the deliberate creation of learning opportunities in
the global rollout of innovations. Some firms launch in only a subset of markets at first, with …

Stage-gate escalation

R Klingebiel, P Esser - Strategy Science, 2020 - pubsonline.informs.org
In this article, we review resource allocation at former handset maker Sony Ericsson. Three
observations reveal how innovation projects can escalate through a stage-gate process that …

Exploration and the termination of inventions: the role of the structure of the firm's knowledge base and its failure experience

A Zakaryan - Industry and Innovation, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Firms manage their R&D portfolios by continuously evaluating and selecting which inventive
paths to maintain and which ones to terminate. Prior research found that the extent of …

Motivating innovation: Tunnels vs. funnels

R Klingebiel - Strategy Science, 2022 - pubsonline.informs.org
The tentative pursuit of parallel projects in an innovation funnel helps firms improve
selection under uncertainty. Yet a risk of premature project termination may make …

Sample decisions with description and experience

R Klingebiel, F Zhu - Judgment and Decision Making, 2022 - cambridge.org
Decision makers weight small probabilities differently when sampling them and when
seeing them stated. We disentangle to what extent the gap is due to how decision makers …

Turning strain into gain: leveraging manager compassion to promote team innovation and customer satisfaction in response to teams' emotional exhaustion

F Montani, C Vandenberghe, S Grenier… - European Journal of …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Although emotional exhaustion is generally regarded as a threat to individual and team
functioning, research on the effects of team emotional exhaustion is scant and inconsistent …

Innovation panel surveys in Germany: the Mannheim Innovation Panel

B Peters, C Rammer - Handbook of Innovation Indicators and …, 2023 - elgaronline.com
Surveying innovation activities of enterprises based on dedicated annual panel surveys has
a long tradition in Germany. A first effort dates back to 1979 when the Munich-based ifo …