Jonas Rundquist

• PhD Industrial Management
• Associate professor of industrial management at Halmstad University

The purposes of this special issue were to connect Human Resource Management (HRM) research and innovation research and to contribute towards a better understanding of how HRM can be deployed to support organisations in their innovation efforts. In this commentary, we review the results from the five articles in this special issue in general and of...

This paper introduces the papers included in the thematic issue on Human Resource Management (HRM) and firm innovativeness in a European context. Furthermore it presents the results of a literature review on human resource management and firm innovativeness. The literature shows that the positive relationship between HRM and firm innovativeness has...

The goal of this research is to identify drivers that influence the brand success, in order to develop a more effective business strategy. An abductive theory approach is adopted and food managers from Italy and Sweden were questioned. The authors modeled the eight correlated first-order factors, using seven independent variables and the dependent...

Purpose The study, which compares the success factors for eco‐innovations with those factors for other innovations, is intended to improve understanding of how eco‐innovations achieve market success. Design/methodology/approach A case study design is used. Six eco‐innovations cases and six other innovations cases are compared. Data were obtained m...

New product development ( NPD ) is a knowledge‐intensive activity, perhaps even more so in recent years given the shift toward more open innovation processes, which involve active inward and outward technology transfer. While the extant literature has established that knowledge is critical for NPD performance, knowledge generated through NPD can ha...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the relationship between HRM practices and entrepreneurial orientation (EO) in large established firms. More specifically, the purpose is to add to the understanding of the influence of HRM practices on EO. Design/methodology/approach – An e-mail survey was distributed to a sample of Swedish and Ge...

Para aprovechar el conocimiento y obtener una mejor interacción entre los estudiantes, la universidad y las empresas, en la Universidad de Halmstad de Suecia se ha desarrollado durante los últimos treinta años un método que ha permitido obtener importantes resultados. Este método contiene una filosofía y una estructura que proyectan el desarrollo a...

Research has indicated that small and medium sized firms (SMEs) play an important role in the growth of the economy. However, in order to be able to compete at an international level, most SMEs are bound to work in alliances in order to gather enough knowledge and resources for product and technology development or to be able to penetrate a larger...

To take advantage of knowledge and obtain better interaction between students, universities and companies, the University of Halmstad in Sweden has developed a method over the last thirty years that has produced significant results. This method contains a philosophy and a structure that promotes the university’s academic development, while fosterin...

The construction sector is often accused of being inefficient, conservative and noninnovative, although some commentators have suggested that the construction sector is not backward, it is merely different to other industries. One of these differences is the uniqueness of construction projects, which are determined by the characteristics of the sit...

The purpose of this study is to examine the effect of a firm's ability to integrate knowledge on their innovation performance, in order to help firm's prioritise their resources, used for knowledge integration, more effectively. Data were collected from a survey mailed to R&D managers in firms with between 100–1,000 employees in a cross-section of...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to improve the understanding of outsourcing new product development (NPD), and specifically of factors affecting the outsourcing decisions, by exploring the practices of the most innovative firms. Design/methodology/approach The paper draws on an internet‐based survey sent in winter 2008 to 494 medium‐sized fir...

Malaysian manufacturing firms need New Product Development (NPD) methods as tools for boosting their ability to survive. The purpose of this study is to investigate NPD practices in Malaysia, especially practices for outsourcing and organising NPD. The objectives were achieved by using a mail survey addressing companies in the automotive, chemical,...

Recently, there has been a considerable interest for New Product Development (NPD) in Malaysian firms. The purpose of this study is to highlight the use of NPD processes and methods in Malaysian industry with focus on the formal NPD-processes, NPD Strategies, Outsourcing of NPD activities, and the Organizing of NPD. A total of 72 useful questionnai...

Information sharing is an important factor for effectiveness within the internal supply chain. In this paper we use a methodology for mapping information flows in an internal supply chain, and case studies of two Swedish multinational organisations. Eight retrospective cases were used to map, describe and analyse the information flow that supports...

Research on outsourcing normally focuses on outsourcing of production and often uses large firms as samples. Only a few studies address the outsourcing of services or knowledge-intensive activities such as new product development (NPD), and especially in the context of medium-sized firms. Our earlier research in medium-sized firms indicates that ou...

Product Development (PD) in Small and Medium-sized Firms (SMEs) is a long-neglected research area, and little cumulative work has been conducted previously. The purpose of this paper is to provide a first overview of the area of PD in SMEs. In doing so, we draw upon a sample of 149 peer-reviewed research papers selected from an initial sample of 56...

In recent years, there has been a considerable interest in Malaysian manufacturing firms in New Product Development (NPD) which is considered to be indirectly a booster for the success of a firm. The purpose of the study is to highlight the NPD processes and methods used in Malaysian industry. This paper focuses only on the formal NPD-processes and...

Product Development (PD) in Small and Medium-sized Firms (SMEs) is a long-neglected research area, and little cumulative work has been conducted previously. The purpose of this paper is to provide a first overview of the area of PD in SMEs. In doing so, we draw upon a sample of 149 peer-reviewed research papers selected from an initial sample of 56...

The purpose of the present study is to describe the process of integrating knowledge created during joint product development projects involving medium sized manufacturing firms, and to find some early factors that can promote success in the integration process. Knowledge integration can be described as spirals within the partners and the alliance...

Undervisning vid högskola eller universitet innehåller normalt ett antal olika standardformer av undervisning. Exempelvis finns det definierat vid Högskolan i Halmstad (HH) hur mycket betalning en lärare ska ha vid föreläsning, seminarie och handledning. Dessa undervisningsformer är sålunda väl etablerade i högskolesystemet, men passar inte alltid...

De projekt som misslyckas, misslyckas oftast i början av projektet (vid beställningen) eller i slutet av projektet, då projektets resultat ska överlämnas till beställaren. Detta kan bero på att beställaren och projektledaren inte samverkar på ett bra sätt före, under och efter projektet. Samspelet mellan beställaren och projektledaren har börjat be...

Este documento presenta los resultados de un estudio realizado en cuatro empresas suecas, de mediano tamaño, para entender los razonamientos detrás del outsourcing en la innovación. Se aborda especialmente el problema de integrar conocimiento desarrollado en la empresa que requiere el outsourcing, esto es analizado, evidenciando oportunidades de me...

Research often suggests that formal New Product Development (NPD) processes increase the success rate of NPD projects in a firm. However, recent studies indicate a relatively low usage of formal NPD-processes. Very few studies of NPD practices have been carried out in contexts other than that of the US, thus it is of interest to explore whether or...

Board roles in recently started firms have been of little interest in earlier research. The different context of smaller firms in relation to larger corporations makes the roles of the board different in different size of firms. This study has two purposes. The first purpose is to explore if variables in the context of the firm can explain the exis...

Malaysian manufacturing firms are interested in New Product Development (NPD) methods, due to the fact that they are competitive tools for survival. The purpose of the present study is to investigate NPD practices in Malaysia, in particular the outsourcing of NPD and the organizing of NPD. We achieved our objectives by conducting a survey of 72 com...

Information sharing is an important factor for cooperating within an integrated supply chain. This paper presents a methodology for mapping information flows in an integrated supply chain and a case study, using the mapping methodology, from two Swedish multinational organizations. Eight cases where used in a retro perspective way to map, describe...