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D-Index
52
Citations
17999
World Ranking
855
National Ranking
28

Frank T. Piller publication distribution in Business and Management in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Business and Management in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Frank T. Piller sits on this spectrum.

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35 publications 436+

This scientist: 359 publications — 95th percentile

95% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 436 publications or more.

Frank T. Piller D-index placement in Business and Management in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Business and Management scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Frank T. Piller sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 89+

This scientist: 52 D-Index — 72nd percentile

72% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 89 D-Index or more.

Overview

Frank T. Piller is affiliated with RWTH Aachen University in Germany and has contributed extensively to the fields of Business, Management and Accounting, Engineering, and Social Sciences. The scientist's research spans several subfields including Strategy and Management, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Management of Technology and Innovation, Marketing, and Sociology and Political Science.

Their work focuses on diverse topics such as Service and Product Innovation, Digital Platforms and Economics, Digital Transformation in Industry, Open Source Software Innovations, Product Development and Customization, Innovation and Knowledge Management, and Business Strategy and Innovation.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Frank T. Piller include:

  • From product to platform: How incumbents' assumptions and choices shape their platform strategy, 2023, Research Policy
  • How open is innovation research? - An empirical analysis of data sharing among innovation scholars, 2021, Industry and Innovation
  • How spatial proximity facilitates distant search - a social capital perspective on local open innovation, 2022, Industry and Innovation
  • Ten Propositions on the Future of Digital Business Models for Industry 4.0 in the Post-Corona Economy, 2020, SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Positioning Strategies in Emerging Industrial Ecosystems for Industry 4.0, 2021, Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Frank T. Piller include:

  • Dirk Lüttgens
  • Marc Van Dyck
  • Patrick Pollok
  • Kathleen Diener
  • Verena Nitsch

Publications appear often in the following venues:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Academy of Management Proceedings
  • Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
  • Industry and Innovation
  • Journal of Product Innovation Management

Frank T. Piller has also authored books published by Interdisciplinary Excellence Accelerator Series and Springer Nature. Titles include Internet of Production (2023) with multiple citations and Forecasting Next Generation Manufacturing (2022).

Best Publications

  • Toolkits for idea competitions: a novel method to integrate users in new product development

    Frank Thomas Piller;Frank Thomas Piller;Dominik Walcher

  • The open innovation research landscape: established perspectives and emerging themes across different levels of analysis

    Marcel Bogers;Ann Kristin Zobel;Allan Afuah;Esteve Almirall

  • Value Creation by Toolkits for User Innovation and Design: The Case of the Watch Market

    Nikolaus Franke;Frank Piller

  • Economic implications of 3D printing: Market structure models in light of additive manufacturing revisited

    Christian Weller;Robin Kleer;Frank T. Piller

  • Reducing the risks of new product development

    Frank T. Piller;Ogawa Susumu

  • Mass Customization: Reflections on the State of the Concept

    Frank T. Piller

  • Product Variety Management

    H. ElMaraghy;G. Schuh;W. ElMaraghy;F. Piller

  • Cracking the Code of Mass Customization

    Fabrizio Salvador;Pablo Martin de Holan;Frank T. Piller

  • The Customer Centric Enterprise

    Mitchell M. Tseng;Frank T. Piller

  • Does mass customization pay? An economic approach to evaluate customer integration

    Frank T. Piller;Kathrin Moeslein;Christof M. Stotko

  • Predicting the future of additive manufacturing: A Delphi study on economic and societal implications of 3D printing for 2030

    Ruth Jiang;Robin Kleer;Robin Kleer;Frank T. Piller

  • Interaktive Wertschöpfung kompakt : Open Innovation, Individualisierung und neue Formen der Arbeitsteilung

    Frank Thomas Piller;Kathrin Möslein;Christoph Ihl;Ralf Reichwald

  • Overcoming Mass Confusion: Collaborative Customer Co-Design in Online Communities

    Frank Thomas Piller;Petra Schubert;Michael Koch;Kathrin M. Möslein

  • Key research issues in user interaction with user toolkits in a mass customisation system

    Nikolaus Franke;Frank Thomas Piller

  • From Social Media to Social Product Development: The Impact of Social Media on Co-Creation of Innovation

    Frank Piller;Alexander Vossen;Christoph Ihl

  • Linking strategic flexibility and operational efficiency: the mediating role of ambidextrous operational capabilities

    Sebastian Kortmann;Carsten Gelhard;Carsten Zimmermann;Frank T. Piller

  • Opening the Black Box of “Not Invented Here”: Attitudes, Decision Biases, and Behavioral Consequences

    David Antons;Frank Thomas Piller

  • The Customer Centric Enterprise: Advances in Mass Customization and Personalization

    Mitchell M. Tseng;Frank T. Piller

  • Augmenting human innovation teams with artificial intelligence: Exploring transformer‐based language models

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  • Interaktive Wertschöpfung

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  • A new marketing approach to mass customisation

    Frank Thomas Piller;Melanie Müller

  • Firms, Users, and Innovation

    Frank Piller;Joel West

Frequent Co-Authors

Mitchell M. Tseng
Mitchell M. Tseng Feng Chia University
Malte Brettel
Malte Brettel RWTH Aachen University
Marcel Bogers
Marcel Bogers Eindhoven University of Technology
Iring Koch
Iring Koch RWTH Aachen University
Ann Majchrzak
Ann Majchrzak University of Southern California
Nikolaus Franke
Nikolaus Franke Vienna University of Economics and Business
Annabelle Gawer
Annabelle Gawer University of Surrey
Kathryn E. Stecke
Kathryn E. Stecke The University of Texas at Dallas
Satish Nambisan
Satish Nambisan Case Western Reserve University
John Bessant
John Bessant University of Exeter

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