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23 December 2025: Contribution accepted for publication

The paper “Explore or Exploit? How Explorative and Exploitative IT Capabilities Affect New Product Development Process Performance”, co-authored with Elena D. Denzer and Slawka Jordanow (Universität des Saarlandes) has been accepted for publication in the journal Technological Forecasting and Social Change. For more information, click here.

15 December 2025: Contribution accepted for publication

The article ‘Transforming Business Models for a Better Future: Investigating Effects of Sustainable Business Model Archetypes on Consumer Adoption Behaviour’, written in collaboration with Lennard Stutz (Saarland University), Franziska Janz (Saarland University) and Slawka Jordanow (Saarland University), has been accepted for publication in the Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management Journal. Further information is available here.

25 November 2025: Article accepted for publication

The article ‘Innovating for Impact: Harnessing Business Model Innovation to Tackle Grand Challenges’, co-authored with Nancy M. P. Bocken (Maastricht University), Patrick Spieth (University of Kassel), Christopher Tucci (NEOM University & Imperial College London) and Christoph Zott (IESE Business School), has been accepted for publication in the Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal. Further information is available here.

16 September 2025: JPIM Outstanding Reviewer Award 2024

Professor Heidenreich was honoured with the JPIM Outstanding Reviewer Award 2024 by the Product Development and Management Association (PDMA).

24 July 2025: Article accepted for publication

The article ‘From resistance to retention: Passive innovation resistance and post-adoption usage of digital services’, written in collaboration with Mario Schaarschmidt (University of Duisburg-Essen) and Matthias Bertram (Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences), has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Management Information Systems. Further information is available here.

23 June 2025: Contribution accepted for publication

The article ‘Measuring Lead Userness: Development and Validation of a Hierarchical Scale’, written in collaboration with Moritz Paulus (August-Wilhelm Scheer Institute), Slawka Jordanow (Saarland University) and Franziska Janz (Saarland University), has been accepted for publication in Creativity and Innovation Management. Further information is available here.

Award for Prof. Dr. Sven Heidenreich in the international ScholarGPS ranking

In the current ScholarGPS ranking 2024, Prof. Dr. Sven Heidenreich was recognised as one of the world's most prolific researchers. In the field of innovation management, he ranks 44th in the lifetime achievement ranking (Top Scholar – Lifetime), placing him among the top 0.5% of researchers worldwide.

The ranking is based on the evaluation of over 30 million scientific profiles and takes into account research productivity (publications), influence (citations) and visibility (h-index). Scientific achievements were evaluated both over the entire career and in the last five years.

Further information and individual rankings are available at www.scholargps.com.

13 December 2024: WirtschaftsWoche 2024 economist ranking

In the current WirtschaftsWoche economist ranking, Prof. Dr. Heidenreich ranks 188th in the lifetime achievement ranking (overall evaluation of all publications to date). The ranking covers the publications of 4,958 researchers in the field of business administration who work at universities, Fraunhofer Institutes or Max Planck Institutes in Germany, Austria and Switzerland (including postdocs and junior professors) and evaluates them according to the reputation of the publication. Further information can be found here.

22 October 2024: Article accepted for publication

The article ‘Do all stars shine the same? Investigating the nonlinear effects of user and critic reviews on video game sales’, co-authored with Tobias Krämer (University of Koblenz Landau) and Welf Weiger (Alfaisal University), has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Business Research. Further information is available here.

21 October 2024: JPIM Outstanding Reviewer Award 2023

Professor Heidenreich was honoured with the JPIM Outstanding Reviewer Award 2023 by the Product Development and Management Association (PDMA).

06 September 2024: Contribution accepted for publication

The article ‘Shades of Green Deception - An Empirical Examination of the Consequences of Greenwashing in Innovations’, written in collaboration with Franziska Janz (Saarland University), Slawka Jordanow (Saarland University) and Juliane Schäfer (Saarland University), has been accepted for publication in the journal Creativity and Innovation Management. Further information is available here.

23 May 2024: Finalist for Best Paper Award

The conference paper ‘When time flies – Unravelling the temporal effects of passive and active innovation resistance on new service adoption’, presented by Sven Heidenreich, Slawka Jordanow, Tobias Krämer and Martin Obschonka, was selected as a finalist for the Best Paper Award at the 18th International Research Conference in Service Management.

22 April 2024: Article accepted for publication

The article ‘Enhancing Adoption of Sustainable Product Innovations: Addressing Reduced Performance with Risk-Reducing Product Modifications’, co-authored with Jan Hendrik Schumann (University of Passau) and Christian Nagel (University of Passau), has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Business Research. Further information is available here.

18 February 2024: Article accepted for publication

The article ‘Together forever? How customer co-creation affects the adoption of digital service innovations over time’, written in collaboration with Slawka Jordanow (Saarland University), Tobias Krämer (University of Koblenz-Landau) and Martin Obschonka (University of Amsterdam), has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Product Innovation Management. Further information is available here.

10 January 2024: Contribution accepted for publication

The article co-authored with Tobias Röth (University of Kassel), Fiona Schweitzer (Grenoble Ecole de Management) and Patrick Spieth (University of Kassel), "Navigating through Learning Tensions at the Front-End: How Firms can Motivate Paradoxical Thinking when Screening the Creativity of Ideas" has been accepted for publication in the R&D Management Journal. For more information, click here.

27 October 2023: Contribution accepted for publication

The article co-authored with Markus Gröber (EBS Business School), Elena Freisinger (TU Ilmenau) und Sven Henkel (EBS Business School), "How Valuable are Personal Values? Investigating Personal Values and Their Effect on Entrepreneurial Performance" has been accepted for publication in the International Journal of Entrepreneurial Venturing. For more information, click here.

18 April 2023: Contribution accepted for publication

The article co-authored with Franziska Handrich (Saarland University) und Tobias Krämer (University of Koblenz-Landau), "Flawless Victory! Investigating Search and Experience Qualities as Antecedent Predictors of Video Game Success" has been accepted for publication in the International Journal of Entrepreneurial Venturing. For more information, click here.

16 December 2022: Economists ranking of WirtschaftsWoche 2022

In the current economist ranking of WirtschaftsWoche, Prof. Dr. Heidenreich is ranked 93st among the most research-intensive business economists from German-speaking countries (2018-2022), as well as 196th in the lifetime achievement ranking (total assessment of all publications to date). As part of the ranking, the publications of 4500 researchers in the field of business administration working at chairs, Fraunhofer Institutes or Max Planck Institutes in Germany, Austria and Switzerland (including post-docs and junior professors) were recorded and evaluated according to the reputation of the publication organ. Further information can be found here.

19 April 2022: Contribution accepted for publication

The paper "The Dark Side of Business Model Innovation - An Empirical Investigation into the Evolvement of Customer Resistance and the Effectiveness of Potential Countermeasures", co-authored with Elena Freisinger (TU Ilmenau) and Christian Landau (EBS Business School), has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Product Innovation Management. For more information, click here. 

22 February 2022: Contribution accepted for publication

The article co-authored with Pascal Vermehren (EBS Business School) and Katrin Burmeister-Lamp (EBS Business School), "I am. Therefore, I will? Predicting customers' willingness to co-create using five-factor theory" has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Service Management. For more information, click here. 

05 January 2022: Contribution accepted for publication

The paper co-authored with Franziska Handrich (SICK AG) and Tobias Krämer (University of Koblenz-Landau) "Innovate or Game Over? Examining Effects of Product Innovativeness on Video Game Success" has been accepted for publication in the journal Electronic Markets. For more information, click here.

08 October 2021: Contribution accepted for publication

The paper "If at first you don't adopt - Investigating determinants of new product leapfrogging behavior", co-authored with Jan Killmer (Saarland University) and Jan Millemann (Eindhoven University of Technology), has been accepted for publication in the journal Technological Forecasting and Social Change. For more information, click here.

08 October 2021: Contribution accepted for publication

The paper, co-authored with Julian Bauer (Grenoble Ecole de Management), Fiona Schweitzer (Grenoble Ecole de Management) and Tobias Roeth (University of Kassel), "The value of experience-based simulation in garnering support for radically new concepts" has been accepted for publication in the International Journal of Innovation Management. For more information, click here.

01 October 2021: DFG application approved

The Chair of Business Administration, in particular Technology and Innovation Management has been granted the research project "TRIP: The Right Consumer for Integration in New Product Development - An Empirical Investigation into the Effectiveness of Lead Users, Passive Resistors and Emergent Nature Consumers" by the German Research Foundation (DFG). Further information can be found here.

26 September 2021: Contribution accepted for publication

The paper, co-authored with Carolin Stockkamp (Saarland University), Juliane Schäfer (Saarland University), and Jan Millemann (Eindhoven University of Technology), "Identifying Factors Associated with Consumers' Adoption of e-Mobility - A systematic Literature," has been accepted for publication in the Journal Sustainability. For more information, click here.

02 September 2021: Contribution accepted for publication

The paper, co-authored with Elena Freisinger (TU Ilmenau), Christian Landau (EBS Business School) and Patrick Spieth (University of Kassel), "Business Model Innovation through the Lens of Time: An Empirical Study of Performance Implications across Venture Life Cycles," has been accepted for publication in the Schmalenbach Journal of Business Research. For more information, click here.

05 July 2021: Contribution accepted for publication

The paper "Do opposites attract in New Product Development?", co-authored with Matthias Handrich (Pforzheim University of Applied Sciences) and Christoph Munck (EBS University of Economics and Law), was accepted for publication in the International Journal of Innovation Management. Investigating the role of innovation-management control cooperation across the NPD process" has been accepted for publication in the International Journal of Innovation Management. For more information, click here.

08 April 2021: Contribution accepted for publication

The paper, co-authored with Riza Casidy (Macquarie University), Marius Claudy and Efe Camurdan (University College Dublin), "The role of brands in overcoming consumer resistance to autonomous vehicles," has been accepted for publication in Psychology & Marketing. For more information, click here. 

19 December 2020: Contribution accepted for publication

The paper "Facilitating Business Model Innovation: The Influence of Sustainability and the Mediating Role of Strategic Orientations", co-authored with Sascha Klein and Patrick Spieth (University of Kassel), has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Product Innovation Management. For more information, click here. 

12 December 2020: Economists ranking of WirtschaftsWoche 2020

In the current economist ranking of WirtschaftsWoche, Prof. Dr. Heidenreich is ranked 51st among the most research-intensive business economists from German-speaking countries (2016-2020), as well as 8th among the most research-intensive business economists from German-speaking countries under the age of 40 (total number of all publications) and 240th in the lifetime achievement ranking (total assessment of all publications to date). As part of the ranking, the publications of 3346 researchers in the field of business administration working at chairs, Fraunhofer Institutes or Max Planck Institutes in Germany, Austria and Switzerland (including post-docs and junior professors) were recorded and evaluated according to the reputation of the publication organ. Further information can be found here.

19 October 2020: Contribution accepted for publication

The paper, co-authored with Thomas Spanuth (Horvath and Partners) and Andreas Wald (University of Adger), "Temporary Organizations in the Creation of Dynamic Capabilities: Effects of Temporariness on Innovative Capacity and Strategic Flexibility," has been accepted for publication in the journal Industry and Innovation. For more information, click here.

16 September 2020: Contribution accepted for publication

The paper, co-authored with Ulf Diefenbach (Berlin School of Economics and Law) and Benedikt Schnellbächer (Saarland University), "Using regulatory fit in cost reduction announcements" has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Accounting & Organizational Change. For more information, click here.

01 August 2020: Contribution accepted for publication

The paper co-authored with Fabian Futterer (EBS Business School) and Patrick Spieth (University of Kassel), "Is New Always Better? How Business Model Innovation Affects Consumers' Adoption Behavior" has been accepted for publication in the journal IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management. For more information, click here.

18 June 2020: Contribution accepted for publication

The paper co-authored with David An (EBS Business School) and Markus Kreutzer (EBS Business School), "Always Play Against Par? The Effect of Inter-Team Coopetition on Individual Team Productivity" has been accepted for publication in the journal Industrial Marketing Management. For more information, clickhere.

16 May 2020: Contribution accepted for publication

The paper "The Performance Effects of Management Control Instruments in Different Stages of New Product Development," co-authored with Jan Munck, Alexander Tkotz, and Andreas Wald, has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Accounting & Organizational Change. For more information, please click here.

08 March 2020: Contribution accepted for publication

The paper, co-authored with Benedikt Schnellbächer (Saarland University), "The role of individual ambidexterity for organizational performance - Examining ambidextrous knowledge seeking and offering" has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Technology Transfer. For more information, click here.

18 February 2019: Contribution accepted for publication

The paper "Antecedents and effects of individual ambidexterity - A cross-level investigation of exploration and exploitation activities at the employee level", co-authored with Benedikt Schnellbächer (Saarland University) and Andreas Wald (University of Agder), has been accepted for publication in the European Management Journal. For more information, please click here. 

31 January 2019: WirtschaftsWoche Economists Ranking 2018

In the current economist ranking of WirtschaftsWoche, Prof. Dr. Heidenreich is ranked 60th among the most research-intensive business economists from German-speaking countries (2014-2018), as well as 43rd among the most research-intensive business economists from German-speaking countries under the age of 40 (total number of all publications). As part of the ranking, the publications of 2824 researchers in the field of business administration working at chairs, Fraunhofer Institutes or Max Planck Institutes in Germany, Austria and Switzerland (including post-docs and junior professors) were recorded and evaluated according to the reputation of the publication organ. Further information can be found here.