The nature of lead users and measurement of leading edge status

By Pamela D. Morrison, John H. Roberts, David F. Midgley. 2004

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Subfields: Computer Science Applications, Management Science and Operations Research, Strategy and Management

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Finding commercially attractive user innovations: A test of lead user theory (2006, positive): “With respect to development of lead-user theory, Morrison, Roberts, and Midgley (2004) showed that the lead-user construct and a closely related construct developed by these authors called leading-edge status is distributed in a continuous, unimodal manner in a sample of innovating and…”
Why Do Users Contribute to Firm-Hosted User Communities? The Case of Computer-Controlled Music Instruments (2006, background): “Lead users have also been found to be willing to diffuse their state-of-the-art innovative “use knowledge” to the remaining members in the community (Morrison et al. 2004).”
Toolkits for Idea Competitions: A Novel Method to Integrate Users in New Product Development (2006, background): “While most of the existing research has focused on comparing screening and pyramiding (Morrison et al., 2004; von Hippel et al., 2005), we will explore in the following a new way for self selection.”
1 Moving Beyond Schumpeter: Management Research on the Determinants of Technological Innovation (2008, background): “Another major category of users who contribute significantly to innovation are the “Lead users” (Jeppesen & Frederiksen, 2006 ; Morrison, Roberts, & Midgley, 2004 ; von Hippel, 1986 ).”
Extending Lead User Theory: Antecedents and Consequences of Consumers' Lead Userness (2008, positive): “Second, Morrison et al. (2004) analyzed Australian libraries and found a strong relationship between the organizations' leading-edge status and their adoptive behavior regarding online database systems.”
When customers get clever: managerial approaches to dealing with creative consumers (2007, positive): “... the lead user approach to more traditional new product development techniques (Herstatt & von Hippel, 1992); the characteristics of innovation, innovators, and innovation sharing in lead user environments (Morrison, Roberts, & von Hippel, 2000); performance assessment of the lead user approach (”