Structural ambidexterity in NPD processes: A firm-level assessment of the impact of differentiated structures on innovation performance

Technovation

Volumn 30, Issue 5-6, 2010, Pages 291-299

  de Visser, Matthias ^a   de Weerd Nederhof, Petra ^a   Faems, Dries ^a   Song, Michael ^b   van Looy, Bart ^c   Visscher, Klaasjan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI KANSAS CITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Breakthrough innovation performance; Cross functional structure; Derivative innovation performance; New product development process; Structural ambidexterity

Indexed keywords

BREAKTHROUGH INNOVATIONS; CROSS-FUNCTIONAL; CROSS-FUNCTIONAL STRUCTURE; INNOVATION PERFORMANCE; NEW PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT;

PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 77950019437     PISSN: 01664972     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.technovation.2009.09.008     Document Type: Article

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