Nikolaus Franke

Nikolaus Franke publication distribution in Business and Management in 2026

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Nikolaus Franke D-index placement in Business and Management in 2026

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Best Publications

• How Communities Support Innovative Activities:An Exploration of Assistance and Sharing Among End-Users

  Nikolaus Franke;Sonali Shah

  2147
  Citations

• Finding commercially attractive user innovations: A test of lead user theory

  Nikolaus Franke;Eric A. von Hippel;Martin Schreier

  1355
  Citations

• Satisfying Heterogeneous User Needs via Innovation Toolkits: The Case of Apache Security Software

  Nikolaus Franke;Eric A. von Hippel

  1224
  Citations

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

  Nikolaus Franke;Frank Piller

  1040
  Citations

• The “I Designed It Myself” Effect in Mass Customization

  Nikolaus Franke;Martin Schreier;Ulrike Kaiser

  1020
  Citations

• Testing the Value of Customization: When Do Customers Really Prefer Products Tailored to Their Preferences?

  Nikolaus Franke;Peter Keinz;Christoph J. Steger

  900
  Citations

• Entrepreneurial Intentions of Business Students:A Benchmarking Study

  Christian Lüthje;Nikolaus Franke

  827
  Citations

• Venture Capitalists' Evaluations of Start‐Up Teams: Trade‐Offs, Knock‐Out Criteria, and the Impact of VC Experience

  Nikolaus Franke;Marc Gruber;Dietmar Harhoff;Joachim Henkel

  530
  Citations

• What you are is what you like—similarity biases in venture capitalists' evaluations of start-up teams

  Nikolaus Franke;Marc Gruber;Dietmar Harhoff;Dietmar Harhoff;Joachim Henkel;Joachim Henkel

  526
  Citations

• Product uniqueness as a driver of customer utility in mass customization

  Nikolaus Franke;Martin Schreier

  504
  Citations

• Why Customers Value Self-Designed Products: The Importance of Process Effort and Enjoyment

  Nikolaus Franke;Martin Schreier

  467
  Citations

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

  Nikolaus Franke;Frank Thomas Piller

  414
  Citations

• Complementing Mass Customization Toolkits with User Communities: How Peer Input Improves Customer Self‐Design*

  Nikolaus Franke;Peter Keinz;Martin Schreier

  323
  Citations

• “Does This Sound Like a Fair Deal?”: Antecedents and Consequences of Fairness Expectations in the Individual’s Decision to Participate in Firm Innovation

  Nikolaus Franke;Peter Keinz;Katharina Klausberger

  322
  Citations

• How Communities Support Innovative Activities: An Exploration of Assistance and Sharing Among End-Users

  Sonali K. Shah;Nikolaus Franke

  220
  Citations

• “Pyramiding: Efficient search for rare subjects”

  Eric von Hippel;Nikolaus Franke;Reinhard Wilhelm Prügl;Reinhard Wilhelm Prügl

  218
  Citations

• Integrating Problem Solvers from Analogous Markets in New Product Ideation

  Nikolaus Franke;Marion K. Poetz;Martin Schreier

  208
  Citations

• See Paris and ... found a business? The impact of cross-cultural experience on opportunity recognition capabilities

  Peter Vandor;Nikolaus Franke

  176
  Citations

• Entrepreneurial opportunities with toolkits for user innovation and design

  Nikolaus Franke;Martin Schreier

  162
  Citations

• Finding Commercially Attractive User Innovations: A Test of Lead User Theory

  Nikolaus Franke;Eric A. von Hippel;Martin Schreier

  94
  Citations