Gerda Gemser

Achieving Productive Contradiction: How Entrepreneurs Manage Role Identity Tension

Nico Klenner, Gerda Gemser, Ingo Karpen

Journal article  |  2022  |  Academy of Management Proceedings

Design Leadership Ignited: Elevating Design at Scale

Eric Quint, Gerda Gemser, Giulia Calabretta

Book  |  2022

Design leadership at scale requires leaders who design the design function, establish a thriving environment for the creative team..

Entrepreneurial ways of designing and designerly ways of entrepreneuring: Exploring the relationship between design thinking and effectuation theory

Nico Florian Klenner, Gerda Gemser, Ingo Oswald Karpen

Journal article  |  2021  |  JOURNAL OF PRODUCT INNOVATION MANAGEMENT

Scholars have suggested that design thinking and effectuation theory may enrich each other. However, to date, we lack deeper theor..

Designing the Future: Past and Future Trajectories for Design Innovation Research

Gerda Gemser, Gloria Barczak

Journal article  |  2020  |  Journal of Product Innovation Management

In this article, we focus on design innovation, that is, innovation in the external appearance of a product. Design has become an ..

Co-Creating Demand: Affective and Cognitive Dynamics in the Consumer Co-Innovation Process

Gerda Gemser, Giulia Calabretta, Ingo Karpen

Journal article  |  2020  |  Academy of Management Proceedings

Design Leadership Ignited

Eric Quint, Gerda Gemser, Guilia Calabretta

Scholarly Contribution to Database/Website  |  2020

"Current developments offer great opportunities to ignite design leadership and grow the impact of in-house design teams. Companie..

Track 4.b Introduction: Designerly ways of innovating

Gerda GEMSER, Fleur DEKEN, Nico KLENNER, Giulia CALABRETTA, Nermin AZABAGIC, Rebecca PRICE

Journal article  |  2019  |  Conference Proceedings of the Academy for Design Innovation Management

More and more organizations are using designerly ways of innovating to improve and transform their innovation systems and outcomes..

The influence of design thinking tools on NGO accountability

Lediaa ANDRAWES, Gerda GEMSER, Adela MCMURRAY

Journal article  |  2019  |  Conference Proceedings of the Academy for Design Innovation Management

There is continued criticism regarding the over-reliance on donor-centred accountability mechanisms in aid projects. Conversely, t..

Making design viable

N Azabagic, Gerda Gemser, I Karpen

Conference Proceedings  |  2019  |  Proceedings of the 26th Innovation and Product Development Management Conference (IPDMC)

Wayfinding in the dark: Micro-processes for co-creating directions for strategic innovation

F Deken, Gerda Gemser, M Kleinsmann,

Conference Proceedings  |  2019  |  Proceedings of the 35th EGOS Colloquium