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Value indicators and monitoring in innovative PDM: A grounded approach
Hooge, Sophie; Hatchuel, Armand - HAL - 2008
Long-term success of firms depends on the efficiency of their management of R&D projects. However, there is a gap between standard economic and strategic indicators and the high uncertainty, complexity of commitments, and organizational issues that can be observed in the more innovative R&D...
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NPD Projects in Search of Top Management Support : The Role of Team Leader Social Capital
Chollet, Barthelemy; Brion, Sébastien; Chauvet, Vincent; … - HAL - 2012
A number of studies have found that the performance of NPD projects greatly depends on the support they get from top management. However, research into why some projects get more support than others has been limited. The present paper takes a political approach to NPD, in which top management...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011026089
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Virtual Teams for New Product Development: An Innovative Experience for R&D Engineers
Ebrahim, Nader Ale; Ahmed, Shamsuddin; Taha, Zahari - HAL - 2009
New interaction tools such as internet allow companies to gain valuable input from research and development (R&D) engineers via virtual teams. Consequently, engineers also get more expertise in diminutive timeframes. Virtual R&D teams present the key impetus to the technology acquisition...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010820792
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SMEs; Virtual research and development (R&D) teams and new product development: A literature review
Ebrahim, Nader Ale; Ahmed, Shamsuddin; Taha, Zahari - HAL - 2010
Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are indeed the engines of global economic growth. Their continued growth is a major subject for the economy and employment of any country. Towards that end, virtual research and development (R&D) could be a viable option to sustain and ease the...
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Exploration and Project Management
Lenfle, Sylvain - HAL - 2008
Project management in academic studies tends to be regarded as an adequate solution to the problems raised by innovation. This paper sets out to question this tendency to equate projects and innovation which, in our view, can lead to the improper use of projects to manage innovation. We argue...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008789012
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Creating Products in the Absence of Markets: A Robust Design Approach
Midler, Christophe; Silberzahn, Philippe - HAL - 2008
Purpose - The purpose of this study is to examine how firms deal with a situation of true uncertainty about their potential markets and technologies. Specifically, we ask how firms can create products when the corresponding market does not exist. Design/methodology/approach – This paper is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008789203
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Strategic Interactions in Environmental Regulation Enforcement: Evidence from Chinese Provinces
Renard, Mary-Françoise; Xiong, Hang - HAL - 2012
towards China's decentralization of environment policy implementation as well as its fiscal arrangements. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009651572
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Determinants of FDI into China and Vietnam: A comparative study
Pham, Thi-Hong-Hanh - HAL - 2012
Since the inception of economic reforms, China in 1978 and Vietnam in 1986, both countries have become successful … between China and Vietnam?" through a comparative study of the FDI determinants. In other words, this paper revisits the … determinants of FDI into China and Vietnam by employing an augmented gravity model and using a panel dataset containing information …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009651580
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The world upside down
Fabre, Guilhem; Grumbach, Stephane - HAL - 2012
R&D and innovation have become much more strategic than ever before for the growth of China as well as for its global … perspective explaining the legacy of the past in today's choices. In the second part, we illustrate China's catching up strategy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009654257
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Return migrants : The rise of new entrepreneurs in rural China
Démurger, Sylvie; Xu, Hui - HAL - 2011
rural household survey conducted in Wuwei county (Anhui province, China) in 2008. We apply two complementary approaches : a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009323941