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New product development types and their relationships with performance: organizational learning and forgetting

Yoo, Jae Kyun

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Title
New product development types and their relationships with performance: organizational learning and forgetting
Author(s)
Yoo, Jae Kyun
Issue Date
2021-07-13
Director of Research (if dissertation) or Advisor (if thesis)
  • Mahoney, Joseph T
  • Schijven, Mario
Doctoral Committee Chair(s)
  • Mahoney, Joseph T
  • Schijven, Mario
Committee Member(s)
  • Somaya, Deepak
  • Michael, Steven C
  • Sakhartov, Arkadiy T
Department of Study
Business Administration
Discipline
Business Administration
Degree Granting Institution
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Degree Name
Ph.D.
Degree Level
Dissertation
Date of Ingest
2022-01-12T22:35:12Z
Keyword(s)
  • new product development
  • organizational learning
  • new product introduction
  • product redesign
  • experiential learning
  • innovation
  • automobile
Abstract
This dissertation investigates different types of a firm’s product-development experience to explain how it affects firm performance and product performance. In particular, this dissertation examines a firm’s new product introduction and its product redesign experience, as well as how they affect firm performance. In addition, this dissertation investigates how the time-lapse between a firm’s new product introductions and the time-lapse between its product redesigns affect its product performance. By examining two different types of a firm’s new product-development experience, my dissertation shows that these types of experience have differential effects on firm performance and product performance due to their relatedness with previous experiences. In my first study, I examine the effects of a firm’s new product introduction experience as well as its product redesign experience on its performance, which is measured by the two dimensions of the firm’s average owner-satisfaction rating and its average product-reliability rating. The research setting includes major (U.S. domestic and international) automobile firms competing in the U.S. market from 2006 to 2017. My analyses show empirically that increases in an automobile firm’s new product introduction experience and its product redesign experience both result in lower firm’s average owner-satisfaction rating. In addition, increases in an automobile firm’s product redesign experience shows a decrease in the firm’s average product-reliability rating. An automobile firm’s new product introduction experience, when combined with its product redesign experience, positively affects the firm’s average owner-satisfaction rating. These findings highlight the differential effects of a firm’s product-development experience (i.e., new product introduction and product redesign) on its performance and the differential effects of a firm’s product-development experience on performance depending on which dimension of performance (i.e., owner-satisfaction rating and product-reliability rating) is of concern. In my second study, I examine the effects of time-lapse between a firm’s new product introduction experiences on its product performance and the effects of time-lapse between product redesigns on its product performance. The study posits that the differences in the learning process of a firm’s new product introduction and its product redesign experience will lead to different effects of the time-lapse on product performance. The empirical results weakly corroborate the suggestion that when a new product introduction occurs, the performance in terms of owner satisfaction of the focal product is lower when there is a longer time-lapse since its previous new product introduction. The time-lapse between product redesigns does not show any statistically significant relationship with product performance. This dissertation concludes by providing its contributions to the organizational learning and product development literatures. An agenda for future research is then provided.
Graduation Semester
2021-08
Type of Resource
Thesis
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