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Why is the italian furniture sector resilient to the global economic slow down?

Puasa, Ahmad Fauzi; Jean-Marc, Roda; Fui, Lim Hin; … - In: EAS Strategic Options 2009 (2009) 01, pp. 1-2

The world is in global economic crisis where all exports and imports slow downed in the first two months of 2009. In Malaysia there was a 30% drop of Sarawak logs and timber products exports compared to the same period in 2008 (NST April 15, 2009). All the countries in the world witnessed a slow...

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What does it take to achieve RM53 billion of timber product export by 2020?

Jean-Marc, Roda; Zakaria, Noor Aini; Fui, Lim Hin; … - In: EAS Strategic Options 2011 (2011) 11, pp. 14-15

The MalaysiaÕs wood-based industry is expected to contribute substantially to national income earning through value-added products such as furniture, mouldings, panel products as well as buildersÕ joinery and carpentry. During the Second Industrial Master Plan (IMP2, 1996Ð2005), it was...

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The recovery of the Malaysian economy: does the timber industry sector follow the same trend?

Jean-Marc, Roda; Puasa, Ahmad Fauzi; Fui, Lim Hin; … - In: EAS Strategic Options 2009 (2009) 02, pp. 1-2

An important indicator of the dynamics of the economy and its day to day evolutions is the performance of stock exchanges market. In the case of Malaysia, the KL Composite Index shows that since the world economic downturn in early 2008, the Malaysian economy started to recover in March 2009...

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Exploring the Structure of Complex Software Designs: An Empirical Study of Open Source and Proprietary Code

MacCormack, Alan; Rusnak, John; Baldwin, Carliss Y. - In: Management Science 52 (2006) 7, pp. 1015-1030

This paper reports data from a study that seeks to characterize the differences in design structure between complex … software products. We use design structure matrices (DSMs) to map dependencies between the elements of a design and define … purposeful managerial actions can have a significant impact in adapting a design's structure. This latter result is important …

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Design Rules, Volume 1: The Power of Modularity

Baldwin, Carliss Y.; Clark, Kim B. - The MIT Press

powerful theory of design and industrial evolution. They argue that the industry has experienced previously unimaginable levels … different approaches, as long as they obeyed the established design rules. Drawing upon the literatures of industrial …

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