Launching new products is a risky and expensive endeavor. Accordingly, many firms attempt to mitigate this risk by introducing new offerings under existing brand names. A great deal of academic Read More »
This paper examines customer perceptions toward the potential of self-service technologies in the Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) industry. The technology acceptance model (TAM) was utilised to Read More »
Under fierce market competition, firms are accelerating the pace of product innovation, which may bring extremely incongruent new products. Generally, consumers are unfamiliar with extreme Read More »
Focused and defocused attention has been shown to foster novel product ideas (Ansburg and Hill 2003; Friedman, Fishbach, Förster and Werth, 2003; Nijstad, De Dreu, Rietzschel and Baas 2010) but how Read More »
Companies commonly perform pre-launch product testing. During such product testing, brands could learn that the product can deliver originally unintended benefits. We explore how brands should frame Read More »