... and managers are discussed. Product development Success Time‐to‐market Quality With the dawning of the new millennium, firms find themselves in an “age of fast changes”, the likes of which the world has never known (Tomkovich and Miller, 2000). The demand for speed in the current business...

...Qingyu Zhang; William J. Doll While managers and researchers agree that the fuzzy front end of new product development (NPD) is critical for project success, the meaning of the term “front‐end fuzziness” remains vague. It is often used broadly to refer to both the exogenous causes and the internal...

...Bjarne Jensen; Hanne Harmsen This paper addresses companies’ lack of implementation of success factors in new product development. Drawing on theory in the competence perspective and an exploratory empirical study, the paper points to two major areas that have not been covered by previous studies...

...Montserrat Entrialgo; Esteban Fernández; Camilo J. Vázquez This research work uses data from 233 Spanish SMEs in order to test three alternative models regarding how psychological characteristics and strategic process affect organisational success: first, the individual model according to which...

... – is generally recognized. However, in practice, the successful conclusion of a total innovation project is by no means matter‐of‐course. Many innovations end in failure. Research in the USA raises the questions of how successful Dutch companies and their managers are in terms of innovation. How many innovation...

...Susan Hart; Nikolaos Tzokas; Michael Saren An overview of the success/failure literature in new product development points to a long list of critical success factors (CSF), which define what should be done to enhance new product success rates but not how to do it. The net result is failure rates...