TY  - BOOK
AU  - Schweisfurth,Tim
ED  - SpringerLink (Online service)
TI  - Embedded Lead Users inside the Firm: How Innovative User Employees contribute to the Corporate Product Innovation Process 
T2  - Forschungs-/Entwicklungs-/Innovations-Management
SN  - 9783658000660
AV  - HD28-70 
U1  - 658.514 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Wiesbaden
PB  - Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden, Imprint: Springer Gabler
KW  - Business
KW  - Management
KW  - Industrial management
KW  - Business and Management
KW  - Innovation/Technology Management
N1  - Lead User -- Innovation -- Firm boundaries -- Organizational behavior -- Boundary spanner
N2  - The central phenomenon of this book are embedded lead users (ELUs): employees of firms who exhibit lead user characteristics in relation to their employing firm’s products or services. Examples for this phenomenon exist amongst others in the sporting industry in which users of sporting goods are at the same time employed by manufacturers of these goods. In three consecutive studies Tim Schweisfurth explores how embedded lead users contribute to corporate innovation. He shows what factors foster the lead userness of employees and what characterizes embedded lead users’ behaviors. Various implications for firms are discussed, e.g. with respect to leveraging user knowledge for innovation.  
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-00066-0
ER  -