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Embedded Lead Users inside the Firm

How Innovative User Employees contribute to the Corporate Product Innovation Process

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  • © 2013

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Authors:
  1. Tim Schweisfurth

    1. Hamburg, Germany

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Part of the book series: Forschungs-/Entwicklungs-/Innovations-Management (FEIM)

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages 1-1
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  2. Focus and scope

    • Tim Schweisfurth
    Pages 1-10

  3. Conceptual foundations of the embedded lead user phenomenon

    • Tim Schweisfurth
    Pages 11-34

  4. When passion meets profession – How embedded lead users contribute to firm innovation

    • Tim Schweisfurth
    Pages 35-68

  5. A framework for studying embedded lead users

    • Tim Schweisfurth
    Pages 69-73

  6. Embedded lead users and market-directed dispositions

    • Tim Schweisfurth
    Pages 75-111

  7. Embedded lead users – how are they different and why does it matter

    • Tim Schweisfurth
    Pages 113-153

  8. Integration of Findings, Discussion and Conclusion

    • Tim Schweisfurth
    Pages 155-173

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 9-9
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About this book

The central phenomenon of this book are embedded lead users (ELUs): employees of firms who experience emerging needs and profit from solutions to these needs (i.e. who exhibit lead user characteristics) in relation to one or more of their employing firm’s products or services. In three subsequent studies I explore, how embedded lead users contribute to corporate innovation. I show which factors foster the lead userness of employees and what characterizes embedded lead users’ behaviors. This holds various implications for firms, e.g. with respect to the integration of user knowledge for innovation.​

Authors and Affiliations

  • Hamburg, Germany

    Tim Schweisfurth

About the author

Tim Schweisfurth completed his doctoral thesis at the Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH). He is now working at the Institute for Technology and Innovation Management as a postdoctoral researcher.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Embedded Lead Users inside the Firm

  • Book Subtitle: How Innovative User Employees contribute to the Corporate Product Innovation Process

  • Authors: Tim Schweisfurth

  • Series Title: Forschungs-/Entwicklungs-/Innovations-Management

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-00066-0

  • Publisher: Springer Gabler Wiesbaden

  • eBook Packages: Business and Economics, Business and Management (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden 2013

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-658-00065-3Published: 05 October 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-658-00066-0Published: 05 October 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XX, 221

  • Number of Illustrations: 19 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Innovation/Technology Management

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