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Maintaining Project Networks in Automated Artificial Intelligence Planning

Bell, Colin E. - In: Management Science 35 (1989) 10, pp. 1192-1214

AI automated plan synthesis programs ("planners") typically represent plans as a partially ordered network whose nodes are instants in time and whose arcs are precedence constraints. Such representations are essentially PERT charts. This paper provides an introduction to AI planners and...

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The Adoption of Radical and Incremental Innovations: An Empirical Analysis

Dewar, Robert D.; Dutton, Jane E. - In: Management Science 32 (1986) 11, pp. 1422-1433

process innovations that contain a high degree of new knowledge (radical innovations) and a low degree of new knowledge … (incremental innovations). Results from a sample of 40 footwear manufacturers suggest that extensive knowledge depth (measured by … have both more technical specialists and to adopt radical innovations. The study did not find associations between the …

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Impact of Licensing on Investment and Financing of Technology Development

Kulatilaka, Nalin; Lin, Lihui - In: Management Science 52 (2006) 12, pp. 1824-1837

Technology innovations continue to be one of the greatest drivers of economic growth. Realizing the value of such … innovations, however, requires substantial follow-on investments in development and commercialization. The value of these …

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Project Scope and Project Performance: The Effect of Parts Strategy and Supplier Involvement on Product Development

Clark, Kim B. - In: Management Science 35 (1989) 10, pp. 1247-1263

This paper examines the effect on product development of project scope: the extent to which a new product is based on unique parts developed in-house. Using data from a larger study of product development in the world auto industry, the paper presents evidence on the impact of scope on lead time...

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Managing I/S Design Teams: A Control Theories Perspective

Henderson, John C.; Lee, Soonchul - In: Management Science 38 (1992) 6, pp. 757-777

The control relationship between project managers and team members is a central aspect of the working of any Information System (I/S) design team. This paper combines research on managerial control and team-member control in order to explore a range of control behaviors that can affect the...

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Parkinson's Law and Its Implications for Project Management

Gutierrez, Genaro J.; Kouvelis, Panagiotis - In: Management Science 37 (1991) 8, pp. 990-1001

Critical path models concerning project management (i.e. PERT/CPM) fail to account for work force behavioral effects on the expected project completion time. In this paper, we provide a modelling framework for project management activities, that ultimately accounts for expected worker behavior...

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Context and Antecedents of Information Utility at the R&D/Marketing Interface

Moenaert, Rudy K.; Souder, William E. - In: Management Science 42 (1996) 11, pp. 1592-1610

The objective of the present study was to develop a comprehensive empirically-based model of the communication interface between R&D and marketing. Following Moenaert and Souder (Moenaert, R. K., Souder, W. E. 1990. An analysis of the use of extra-functional information by marketing and R&D...

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Project Appraisal Methodology: A Multidimensional R&D Benefit/Cost Assessment Tool

Silverman, Barry G. - In: Management Science 27 (1981) 7, pp. 802-821

Project Appraisal Methodology (PAM) is a multidimensional, easy to use tool for assessing the relative merits of R&D projects. It requires users to estimate three vectors of economic and scoring values: energy benefits, consumer savings and societal factors. The Division of Fossil Fuel...

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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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Project Management Under Risk: Using the Real Options Approach to Evaluate Flexibility in R...D

Huchzermeier, Arnd; Loch, Christoph H. - In: Management Science 47 (2001) 1, pp. 85-101

Managerial flexibility has value in the context of uncertain R...D projects, as management can repeatedly gather information about uncertain project and market characteristics and, based on this information, change its course of action. This value is now well accepted and referred to as "real...

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