A comparison of two lead user measures and an exploration of their nature

This research compares and contrasts two lead user measures－onefrom the field of innovation management and one from the field of consumerstudy. The first measure, Leading Edge Status (LES) was firstproposed by Morrison (1995)．The second measure, which is secondarilyreconstructed from consumer characteristics constructs, was firstproposed by Katsumata and Ichikohji (2011)．We applied both measuresto the same samples and compared the scores to assess whetherthey measured the same construct. The results showed a significantlyhigh correlation between these two measures, indicating that we can extractapproximately the same construct.田口信夫、高倉泰夫、森永春乃先生 定年退職記念