For competitive reasons, many business organizations are becoming more flexible in their operation and crossfunctional in design. Increased emphasis on satisfying the final consumer has led businesses to recognize that value contributions, from internal and external organizational members in the...

In this research we test the generalizability of an existing model for classifying information-intensive services that can be globally disaggregated to Internet services. This categorization allows us to judge which types of Internet Initial Public Offerings (IPOs) are likely to have superior...

Traditional, single time-period models of quality cost expenditures assume static conditions and ignore the impact of the learning curve effect on a firmÕs product quality, and that of quality improvement efforts by the competitors. In this paper we incorporate both factors in a dynamic model...

For competitive reasons, many business organizations are becoming more flexible in their operation and crossfunctional in design. Increased emphasis on satisfying the final consumer has led businesses to recognize that value contributions, from internal and external organizational members in the...

Traditional, single time-period models of quality cost expenditures assume static conditions and ignore the impact of the learning curve effect on a firmÕs product quality, and that of quality improvement efforts by the competitors. In this paper we incorporate both factors in a dynamic model...