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New Product Development in Virtual Environment
Ale Ebrahim, Nader; Ahmed, Shamsuddin; Taha, Zahari - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
Purpose - The literature on the topic has evolved exponentially since eight years ago. Relaying on a review of studies published in recent years, this article proposes and discusses a framework which incorporates a set of virtual teams involved in a new product development initiative....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008753052
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Concurrent Collaboration in Research and Development
Ale Ebrahim, Nader; Ahmed, Shamsuddin; Taha, Zahari - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
Integration is the essence of current research and development (R&D) activity in many organizations. Integration can be established in various ways depending on the type, size and intricacy in organizational functions and products. Nevertheless, research and development (R&D) has become an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008756290
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From Export Promotion To Import Substitution; Comparative Experience of China and Mexico
Shafaeddin, Mehdi; Pizarro, Juan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
Abstract Both Mexico and China have started export orientation in some industries, through assembly operations, based … development of export oriented industries started, following a period of pursuing import substitution strategy , more or less, at … develop comparative advantage in many industries initiated through import substitution; but China has been more successful …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836937
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Climate Change, Trade, and Competitiveness: Climate Trade Performance of India, SAARC and Asia Pacific Region
Dinda, Soumyananda - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
friendly goods and technologies. The Comparative advantage analyses indicate that Hong Kong, China, and Japan have comparative … China, Hong Kong and Japan, and Asia Pacific region are major exporter of CFG during 2002-2008. Competitiveness of India …, China and South Korea has improved in 2008. Pakistan, Sri-Lanka, and India prefer to trade in CFG regionally and have shown …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011113190
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Being rich in energy resources – a blessing or a curse
Schubert, Samuel R. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
“Being rich in energy resources – a blessing or a curse” finds that an energy resource curse plagues many EU supplier states. This in turn directly affects Europe’s energy supply security and threatens to engulf Europe in unwanted hostilities at home and abroad. The study addresses seven...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005835694
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Volunteering at the extensive margins in Developing Countries: Extrinsic or Intrinsic Motives?
Dayé, Modeste - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
The goal of this paper was to identify the reasons behind the supply for free of labor in a world where rationality requires people to avoid resource misallocation and to care mainly for their own welfare. We based the identification strategy on simple consumption and investment models with a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011112135
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Trade Openness, Conflict Risk and Income Inequality
Oloufade, Djoulassi K. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
This paper investigates the effect of trade openness on income inequality, and shows how this effect is shaped by the presence of conflicts. I argue that income-generating activities controlled by the rich expand during conflicts, whereas those controlled by the poor contract. I find that trade...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011111914
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Measuring Poverty and Human Capital Development in Sudan
Mohamed, Issam A.W. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Catastrophes in Sudan are of many dimensions. Food security is a chronic and intrinsic problem in Sub Saharan Africa which is a fact recognized by the international society. Political instability, civil wars and finally recent secession of its Southern part is another fact which may be taken as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009220659
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Institutionalising Performance Management in R&D Organisations: Key Concepts and Aspects
Yawson, Robert M.; Sutherland, Alistair J. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
In an era in which accountability, cost effectiveness and impact orientation are at premium, Research and Technological Organisations are under pressure not only to improve their performance but also to be able to demonstrate this improvement. This pressure is particularly hard-felt by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009295268
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Ordres contradictoires et coordination destructive: le malaise iranien
Vahabi, Mehrdad - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
United States, and in Post Socialist economies such as Russia and China. Historically, colonialism, the ‘primitive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005790476