Managing innovation successfully [Elektronische Ressource] : the value of contextual fit / vorgelegt von Ronald Bledow

Managing Innovation Successfully: The Value of Contextual Fit Inaugural-Dissertation zur Erlangung des Doktorgrades der Philosophie des Fachbereiches 06 der Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen vorgelegt von Ronald Bledow aus Gießen 2009 Dekan/in: Prof. Dr. Joachim Stiensmeier-Pelster 1. Berichterstatter: Prof. Dr. Michael Frese 2. Berichterstatter: Prof. Dr. Hans-Georg Gemünden Acknowledgements First of all, I would like to thank my mentor Michael Frese for providing me with support, freedom, and trust. I would also like to thank Hans-Georg Gemünden for serving as the second examiner of my dissertation and for supporting an ambitious time schedule. Many ideas of this dissertation were stimulated through discussions with and feedback from scholars in different countries and disciplines. I would like to thank Neil Anderson, Andreas Bausch, Miriam Erez, James Farr, David Hofmann, Julius Kuhl, Filip Lievens, Robert Lord, and Shaker Zahra. I would like to thank Jana Kühnel for her support as a friend and colleague and my mother, Sylvia Bledow, for proofreading this manuscript. Moreover, I would like to thank my colleague Kathrin Rosing for the great teamwork and for valuable comments on my dissertation.