IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/eee/eurman/v21y2003i3p273-284.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Organizing Innovative Projects to Interact with Market Dynamics:: A Coevolutionary Approach

Author

Listed:
  • Van den Ende, Jan
  • Wijnberg, Nachoem
  • Vogels, Rianne
  • Kerstens, Michiel

Abstract

This paper is about the coevolutionary processes that take place between the way firms organize their innovative activities and the dynamics of the relevant markets, especially those having to do with bandwagon and network effects. We focus on the decision-making actors and propose a categorization of causes of increasing returns and definitions of bandwagon and network effects that are consistent with this aim. We investigate the extent of internal autonomy of the unit, the extent of the integration of R&D, production and other activities in the product development process, and the extent of external autonomy. Based on three cases of projects creating software products, two of them in the same firm, we develop hypotheses concerning the relation between the organization of innovation and bandwagon and network effects. Also, on the basis of the discussion of the cases and the coevolutionary framework, a number of research questions are formulated dealing with the relation between the organization of innovative activities by firms, bandwagon and network effects and long-term dynamics, especially of industry life-cycles.

Suggested Citation

  • Van den Ende, Jan & Wijnberg, Nachoem & Vogels, Rianne & Kerstens, Michiel, 2003. "Organizing Innovative Projects to Interact with Market Dynamics:: A Coevolutionary Approach," European Management Journal, Elsevier, vol. 21(3), pages 273-284, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:eurman:v:21:y:2003:i:3:p:273-284
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0263237303000513
    Download Restriction: Full text for ScienceDirect subscribers only
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Niemann, Christoph Constantin & Mai, Robert & Dickel, Petra, 2022. "Nurture or nature? How organizational and individual factors drive corporate entrepreneurial projects," Journal of Business Research, Elsevier, vol. 140(C), pages 155-169.
    2. Mónica Martínez-Gómez & Eliseo Bustamante & César Berna-Escriche, 2022. "Development and Validation of an E-Learning Education Model in the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Case Study in Secondary Education," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(20), pages 1-28, October.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:eee:eurman:v:21:y:2003:i:3:p:273-284. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Catherine Liu (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/115/description#description .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.