The Marketplace Variables in Successful and Unsuccessful NPD Projects in Technology Intensive Companies

We present an exploratory investigation of how managers conceptualize and perceive 'marketplace' variables in successful and unsuccessful New Product Development (NPD) projects, and explore the role that marketplace variables play in differentiating between successful and unsuccessful NPD...

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Autor principal: Haverila,Matti
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Publicado: Universidad Alberto Hurtado. Facultad de Economía y Negocios 2010
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spelling oai:scielo:S0718-272420100004000102011-03-22The Marketplace Variables in Successful and Unsuccessful NPD Projects in Technology Intensive CompaniesHaverila,Matti New product development (NPD) technology products managerial conceptualization marketplace variables We present an exploratory investigation of how managers conceptualize and perceive 'marketplace' variables in successful and unsuccessful New Product Development (NPD) projects, and explore the role that marketplace variables play in differentiating between successful and unsuccessful NPD outcomes. Limitations and future research directions are also discussed. Our findings indicate that managers perceive the marketplace in multiple ways during the NPD process and also that differences exist in metric equivalence across successful and unsuccessful NPD projects. Also, although half of the marketplace variables are positively related to NPD success, managers in Finnish technology companies appear to attach higher relative importance to market attractiveness rather than market competitiveness variables. Marketplace variables appear to be less important than in the Korean and Chinese samples, and much more important than in the Canadian sample in the Mishra et al. study (1996), and similarly much more important than in the Cooper study (1979b).info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessUniversidad Alberto Hurtado. Facultad de Economía y NegociosJournal of technology management & innovation v.5 n.4 20102010-12-01text/htmlhttp://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0718-27242010000400010en10.4067/S0718-27242010000400010
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topic New product development (NPD)
technology products
managerial conceptualization
marketplace variables
spellingShingle New product development (NPD)
technology products
managerial conceptualization
marketplace variables
Haverila,Matti
The Marketplace Variables in Successful and Unsuccessful NPD Projects in Technology Intensive Companies
description We present an exploratory investigation of how managers conceptualize and perceive 'marketplace' variables in successful and unsuccessful New Product Development (NPD) projects, and explore the role that marketplace variables play in differentiating between successful and unsuccessful NPD outcomes. Limitations and future research directions are also discussed. Our findings indicate that managers perceive the marketplace in multiple ways during the NPD process and also that differences exist in metric equivalence across successful and unsuccessful NPD projects. Also, although half of the marketplace variables are positively related to NPD success, managers in Finnish technology companies appear to attach higher relative importance to market attractiveness rather than market competitiveness variables. Marketplace variables appear to be less important than in the Korean and Chinese samples, and much more important than in the Canadian sample in the Mishra et al. study (1996), and similarly much more important than in the Cooper study (1979b).
author Haverila,Matti
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title The Marketplace Variables in Successful and Unsuccessful NPD Projects in Technology Intensive Companies
title_short The Marketplace Variables in Successful and Unsuccessful NPD Projects in Technology Intensive Companies
title_full The Marketplace Variables in Successful and Unsuccessful NPD Projects in Technology Intensive Companies
title_fullStr The Marketplace Variables in Successful and Unsuccessful NPD Projects in Technology Intensive Companies
title_full_unstemmed The Marketplace Variables in Successful and Unsuccessful NPD Projects in Technology Intensive Companies
title_sort marketplace variables in successful and unsuccessful npd projects in technology intensive companies
publisher Universidad Alberto Hurtado. Facultad de Economía y Negocios
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