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The Relation Between Research and Development Project Performance and Technical Communication in a Developing Country---Afghanistan

Ebadi, Yar M.; Dilts, David A. - In: Management Science 32 (1986) 7, pp. 822-830

This study examines the effects of frequency and centrality of communication on research and development project success. The data used in this study are from 49 government funded R & D projects in Afghanistan during 1979. The results of the multivariate analyses show that frequency of...

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Optimal Sequencing and Resource Allocation in Research and Development Projects

Granot, Daniel; Zuckerman, Dror - In: Management Science 37 (1991) 2, pp. 140-156

The main purpose of this study is to construct a suitable research and development (R&D) model which would facilitate the analysis of activity sequencing and resource allocation in R&D projects. In the proposed model, essential characteristics of R&D projects are incorporated. Namely, the...

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The Role of Team and Task Characteristics in R&D Team Collaborative Problem Solving and Productivity

Daley, Robert C. - In: Management Science 24 (1978) 15, pp. 1579-1588

Antecedents of collaborative problem solving in R&D teams have received little attention. Furthermore, the relationship between this form of problem solving and R&D team productivity remains unarticulated. This lacuna is addressed in the present study be analyzing the relationships between task...

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Uncertainty, Social Location and Influence in Decision Making: A Sociometric Analysis

Tushman, Michael L.; Romanelli, Elaine - In: Management Science 29 (1983) 1, pp. 12-23

This research investigates the relative impacts of formal status and informal communication roles on influence in administrative and technical decision making. While external information enters the organization via boundary spanning individuals, the exercise of influence at lower levels of the...

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Pioneering Inventors or Thicket Builders: Which U.S. Firms Use Continuations in Patenting?

Hegde, Deepak; Mowery, David C.; Graham, Stuart J. H. - In: Management Science 55 (2009) 7, pp. 1214-1226

Why do firms use continuations in the prosecution of their patents? Motivated by the widespread use of continuations by U.S. firms and the prominence of this procedure in U.S. patent policy debates, we investigate the influence of corporate and patent characteristics on the use of continuations....

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Erratum to "The Adoption Time Period for Some Transportation Innovations"

Ettlie, John E. - In: Management Science 26 (1980) 12, pp. 1285-1286

Erratum to the author's paper "The Adoption Time Period for Some Transportation Innovations," Management Sci., Vol. 25, No. 5 (1979), pp. 429--443.

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Parallel Funding of R&D Tasks with Probabilistic Outcomes

Bard, Jonathan F. - In: Management Science 31 (1985) 7, pp. 814-828

This paper addresses the problem commonly faced by R&D managers of funding redundant R&D tasks across several stages or components of a project. In the proposed methodology it is assumed that task outcomes are random, but that their distribution can be determined from engineering inputs. In...

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Retail Channel Structure Impact on Strategic Engineering Product Design

Williams, Nathan; Kannan, P. K.; Azarm, Shapour - In: Management Science 57 (2011) 5, pp. 897-914

We examine, in a strategic setting, the broad issue of how retail channel structures--retail monopoly versus retail duopoly--impact a manufacturer's optimal new product design, both in terms of engineering design specifications as well as manufacturer and retailer profits. Our strategic...

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The Effects of Communication on Technological Innovation

Ebadi, Yar M.; Utterback, James M. - In: Management Science 30 (1984) 5, pp. 572-585

This study examined the relationship between communication and technological innovation. It focused on the patterns of … technological innovation. The objectives were to: (1) investigate the effects of communication on technological innovation at an … individual level, and (2) study the effects of interorganizational communication on technological innovation. Data were gathered …

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Price Indexes for R and D Inputs, 1969--1983

Mansfield, Edwin - In: Management Science 33 (1987) 1, pp. 124-129

This paper presents the first R and D price indexes based largely on actual prices and expenditures reported by firms. The results, based on a carefully designed sample of about 100 firms, show that the GNP deflator, which is used in the official government R and D statistics, has tended to...

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