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Dear List Members,
I thought the following call would also be relevant for those of you working on areas that concern the Business Model Canvas, Lean Start-Up Approaches, and similar new paradigms.
Please free to contact me if there any questions as they are related to the call.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Christian
What do we know about the implicit assumptions, theoretical foundations, and intellectual history of more traditional development approaches such as Stage-Gate® and more agile development approaches? How could the theoretical foundations of both be strengthened?
Are Stage-Gate® and agile development approaches complementary or substitutive? Are hybrid approaches feasible and promising?
What are the distinctive features of agile approaches especially relative to widely established concepts such as the learning through experimenting, incremental learning, or effectuation? Is agile development merely a management fashion or a sustained trend?
EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE
What is the empirical track record of Stage-Gate® and other traditional development approaches and agile development approaches with regards to fit-to-market, cost-to-market, and time-to-market in both software and conventional product development? What are contingencies explaining variations in performance?
What are the social effects of agile development approaches, for instance, on employee well-being and turnover as well as on team cohesiveness?
What are possible downside risks of agile development approaches for stakeholders involved in – or affected by – new product development?
Under which circumstances are more traditional and agile development approaches most suitable? Can agile approaches be the panacea for new product development in the digital age?
IMPLEMENTATION CHALLENGES
What are the microfoundations of agile development? What are the individual practices required to succeed and which specific training needs can be identified?
What are some of the challenges organizations are likely to encounter when transitioning towards agile development? How can they master them and build organizational readiness for agile development?
How can agile development approaches be compatible with the safety requirements of so-called high-reliability contexts such as transportation, energy, or healthcare?
What are the social and ethical responsibilities of organizations adopting or transitioning to agile development approaches vis-à-vis all stakeholders (i.e., employees, customers, public)?
SUBMISSIONS
We welcome conceptual as well as empirical submissions either adopting a comparative approach or focusing on the inquiry of agile development concepts. We also value theoretical and methodological pluralism and are open to qualitative, experimental, econometric as well as text and data mining methods.
Inquiries should be sent by email to the coordinating JBR Guest Co-Editor Professor Stefanie Paluch (agiledevelopment@time.rwth-aachen.de).
Manuscript submission for the review process will be done in the Elsevier Editorial system at the following website:
http://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-business-research/call-for-papers
When preparing your submission, please check the JBR website for guidelines on style and paper length: http://www.elsevier.com/journals/journal-of-business-research/0148-2963/guide-for-authors.
Submission deadline: 1 March 2017
First revisions due: 1 July 2017
Final revisions due: 1 October 2017
Expected publication date: 1 January 2018
We look forward to receiving your contribution!
Guest Co-Editors: Stefanie Paluch, Malte Brettel, Christian Hopp, Frank Piller, Torsten-Oliver Salge and Daniel Wentzel, RWTH Aachen University, TIME Research Area (www.time.rwth-aachen.de)
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