Innovation management research methods: embracing rigor and diversity

Research methods in innovation management (IM) is not a topic that has attracted much scholarly attention – at least not in published articles in top-ranked innovation and technology management journals. Indeed, very few articles to date have addressed methods-related issues in IM, either to review existing methods and their use or to develop new methods (Antons et al., 2016). While certain methods have prompted lively debate in many management...