Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
1114326 Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences 2014 6 Pages PDF
Abstract

Existing streams of literature in service innovation and services marketing are integrated to propose a conceptual framework which describes specific team-related and interfunctional level antecedents of the fuzzy front-end (FFE) of the new service development process and discusses their role for enhancing FFE execution quality. In particular, the importance of Internal Market Orientation for role stress, motivation to participate in NSD (team-related antecedents), personalization strategy, conflict resolution and employee integration (interfunctional drivers) is discussed. Additionally, the impact of the aforementioned variables on FFE execution quality is proposed. The moderating effect of some critical contingencies of FFE (i.e. political activity) is also discussed.

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