{"id":12638,"date":"2021-11-17T15:51:16","date_gmt":"2021-11-17T15:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microsites.ncl.ac.uk\/nubsstaffblog\/?p=12638"},"modified":"2021-11-17T15:56:13","modified_gmt":"2021-11-17T15:56:13","slug":"12638","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microsites.ncl.ac.uk\/nubsstaffblog\/2021\/11\/17\/12638\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating Success: Dr Robin Pesch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to Dr Robin Pesch and his co-authors Dr <span class=\"accordion-tabbed__tab-mobile accordion__closed\">Herbert Endres and Prof Dr <\/span><span class=\"accordion-tabbed__tab-mobile accordion__closed\">Ricarda B. Bouncken<\/span> for their paper entitled &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1111\/jpim.12609\">Digital Product Innovation Management: Balancing Stability and Fluidity through Formalization&#8221;<\/a> which has recently been accepted for publication in the <em>Journal of Product Innovation Management<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>A previous version of the manuscript won the <strong>Christer Karlsson Best Paper Award <\/strong>at the Innovation Product Development Management Conference in 2020.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Abstract\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>While an increasing body of research is considering the role of digital product innovation for firms\u2019 survival, there is still a dearth of studies on how firms can best pursue digital product innovations. The development of these innovations is often accompanied by uncertainty and ambiguity. Thus, firms might benefit from the greater clarity and guidance that result from formalization. However, the application of formalized procedures and structures might also lead to the suppression of fluidity, creativity, or change. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to determine if formalization at the project level can enhance digital product innovation.\u00a0A partial duality logic integrating evidence of both the positive and negative effects of formalization builds the fundament for the hypothesized model.\u00a0We use survey and patent data for a sample of 395 firms operating in the manufacturing industry to test the model.<\/p>\n<p>The results suggest the diminishing marginal utility of formalization\u2014that is, formalization enhances digital product innovation radicalness and digital product innovation performance but with decreasing positive marginal returns. These findings challenge the widespread assumptions on the relationship between formalization and innovation. This new perspective on the relationship between formalization and innovation helps identify conditions in which formalization can facilitate firms\u2019 efforts to develop profitable, innovative digital products. For example, the results demonstrate that older firms in particular can benefit from formalization. In turn, beyond providing insights for executives, this study\u00a0offers answers to persistent\u00a0research questions concerning which\u00a0organizational arrangements are optimal for enhancing digital product innovation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to Dr Robin Pesch and his co-authors Dr Herbert Endres and Prof Dr Ricarda B. Bouncken for their paper entitled &#8220;Digital Product Innovation Management:&#8230; <br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/microsites.ncl.ac.uk\/nubsstaffblog\/2021\/11\/17\/12638\/\" rel=\"bookmark\"><strong>Read more<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3560,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.ncl.ac.uk\/nubsstaffblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.ncl.ac.uk\/nubsstaffblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.ncl.ac.uk\/nubsstaffblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.ncl.ac.uk\/nubsstaffblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3560"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.ncl.ac.uk\/nubsstaffblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12638"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.ncl.ac.uk\/nubsstaffblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12640,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.ncl.ac.uk\/nubsstaffblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12638\/revisions\/12640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.ncl.ac.uk\/nubsstaffblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.ncl.ac.uk\/nubsstaffblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.ncl.ac.uk\/nubsstaffblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}