Causal complexity of new product development processes : a mechanism-based approach
Sihvonen, A., & Pajunen, K. (2019). Causal complexity of new product development processes : a mechanism-based approach. Innovation: Organization and Management, 21(2), 253-273. https://doi.org/10.1080/14479338.2018.1513333
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Basic or discovery scholarshipStrategia ja yrittäjyysBasic or discovery scholarshipStrategy and EntrepreneurshipCopyright
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The outcomes of new product development (NPD) processes are
dependent on the interplay of several interdependent activities.
One product development activity can be dependent on the presence or absence of other activities, different kinds of NDP processes
may lead to the same outcome, and specific kinds of activities may
have a positive effect in one process but no effect in other processes.
However, we currently lack means to examine and explain this causal
complexity inherent in NPD processes. To address this issue, we
introduce mechanism-based approach as a way to capture conjunctural and equifinal causal relations. We build this approach on the
philosophical literature on mechanism-based explanations and the
methodological opportunities provided by the qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) to identify how the activities of entities are configured together to generate outcomes. We elaborate this approach
by presenting an in-depth historical analysis of the NPD projects of
Vaisala, a meteorological instrument company. We discover and
suggest that the company’s NPD projects were driven by three
mechanisms (ideation, evaluation and commercialisation) and that
each of them were actualised by a set of different activity configurations. Accordingly, we contribute to the NPD and innovation literature by showing how mechanism-based explanations take into
account both the abstract theorisation of NPD processes and their
inherent causal complexity.
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