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Embedded lead users—The benefits of employing users for corporate innovation

Research Policy, 2015
While most of the literature views users and producers as organizationally distinct, this paper studies users within producer firms. We define "embedded lead users" (ELUs) as employees who are lead users of their employing firm's products or services.
Tim G Schweisfurth, Christina Raasch
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Embedded lead users and market-directed dispositions

2012
In part I of this dissertation I have focused on the phenomenon of embedded lead users in general. Evidence was presented that embedded lead users not only contribute toinnovation in the early phases of the innovation process, but also help to deliver information to other users and span boundaries to external customers.
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A framework for studying embedded lead users

2012
The main focus in the following two studies(parts V and VI) is on embedded lead users’ contributions to corporate innovation.
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Embedded lead users – how are they different and why does it matter

2012
In this chapter,I study the organizational behavior of embedded lead users. Anecdotal evidence (Chouinard 2005; Levitt 2009) and findings from the previous chapters indicate that embedded lead users abound in firms across different industries. Yet there exists hardly any quantitative evidence on this phenomenon.
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Sustainability innovation by integrating employees: the potential of sustainable embedded lead users

International Journal of Innovation and Sustainable Development, 2019
Ulf Schrader
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Embedded Lead Users inside the Firm

2013
Tim G Schweisfurth
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When Passion Meets Profession: How Embedded Lead Users Contribute to Corporate Innovation

2016
Cornelius Herstatt, Tim Schweisfurth, Christina Raasch   +2 more
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Embedded (Lead) Users as Catalysts to Product Diffusion

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2013
Firms can harness social user networks not only for ideation, but also to accelerate and facilitate diffusion of new product introductions. They select individuals whose own product adoptions and opinions influence adoption decisions of others. In this paper we transfer this rationale to firm employees. We focus on ‘embedded users’ who are employees of
Schweisfurth, Tim, Herstatt, Cornelius
openaire   +1 more source

Embedded lead shots in birds of prey: the hidden threat

European Journal of Wildlife Research, 2017
Philippe Berny
exaly