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Elko J. Kleinschmidt

Elko J. Kleinschmidt

D-Index & Metrics

Business and Management

D-Index
58
Citations
28050
World Ranking
595
National Ranking
30

Overview

Elko J. Kleinschmidt is affiliated with McMaster University in Canada and conducts research primarily in the fields of Engineering, Business, Management and Accounting, as well as Economics, Econometrics and Finance.

Their work spans several specialized subfields, including Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality, Strategy and Management, and Economics and Econometrics.

Kleinschmidt's main research interests focus on Technology Assessment and Management, Innovation and Knowledge Management, and Innovation Policy and R&D.

Recent scholarly contributions include a paper titled Strategies to Improve Portfolio Management of New Products, published in 2024 in the journal Research-Technology Management.

  • Strategies to Improve Portfolio Management of New Products (2024), Research-Technology Management

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Kleinschmidt include:

  • Robert G. Cooper
  • Meetal Desai
  • Lee A. Green

In terms of publication venues, Kleinschmidt has contributed to:

  • Research-Technology Management

Best Publications

  • Benchmarking the Firm's Critical Success Factors in New Product Development

    Robert G. Cooper;Elko J. Kleinschmidt

  • New Products: What Separates Winners from Losers?

    R. G. Cooper;E. J. Kleinschmidt

  • An Investigation into the New Product Process: Steps, Deficiencies, and Impact

    Robert G. Cooper;Elko J. Kleinschmidt

  • Portfolio Management For New Products

    Robert G. Cooper;Scott J. Edgett;Elko J. Kleinschmidt

  • The Impact of Product Innovativeness on Performance

    E. J. Kleinschmidt;R. G. Cooper

  • Product innovativeness from the firm's perspective: Its dimensions and their relation with project selection and performance

    Erwin Danneels;Elko J. Kleinschmidt

  • New Product Portfolio Management: Practices and Performance

    Robert G. Cooper;Scott J. Edgett;Elko J. Kleinschmidt

  • Optimizing the Stage-Gate Process: What Best-Practice Companies Do—I

    Robert G. Cooper;Scott J. Edgett;Elko J. Kleinschmidt

  • Winning Businesses in Product Development: The Critical Success Factors

    Robert G. Cooper;Elko J. Kleinschmidt

  • The impact of export strategy on export sales performance

    Robert G. Cooper;Elko J. Kleinschmidt

  • Portfolio management for new product development: results of an industry practices study

    Robert Cooper;Scott Edgett;Elko Kleinschmidt

  • Success factors in product innovation

    R.G. Cooper;E.J. Kleinschmidt

  • Determinants of Timeliness in Product Development

    Robert G. Cooper;Elko J. Kleinschmidt

  • New Product Portfolio Management : Practices and Performance

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  • Benchmarking Best NPD Practices—II

    Robert G. Cooper;Scott J. Edgett;Elko J. Kleinschmidt

  • New Problems, New Solutions: Making Portfolio Management More Effective

    Robert G. Cooper;Scott J. Edgett;Elko J. Kleinschmidt

  • The Impact of Export Strategy on Export Sales Performance

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  • Portfolio Management in New Product Development: Lessons from the Leaders-I

    Robert G. Cooper;Scott J. Edgett;Elko J. Kleinschmidt

  • Benchmarking Best NPD Practices—II

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  • Major new products: What distinguishes the winners in the chemical industry?

    R. G. Cooper;E. J. Kleinschmidt

  • Corporate Culture and Commitment: Impact on Performance of International New Product Development Programs

    Ulrike De Brentani;Elko J. Kleinschmidt

  • New product processes at leading industrial firms

    Robert G. Cooper;Elko J. Kleinschmidt

  • What distinguishes the top performing new products in financial services

    Robert G. Cooper;Christopher J. Easingwood;Scott Edgett;Elko J. Kleinschmidt

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert G. Cooper
Robert G. Cooper McMaster University
Scott J. Edgett
Scott J. Edgett McMaster University

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