This paper deals with modern industrial development processes of new technologies. It focuses an in-creasing complexity and interdependence of the different actors combining different knowledge assets.

This paper is concerned with the question when to preannounce the introduction of a future product when a company whishes to maximize profits across product life cy-cles. Based on a model proposed by Lilly and Walters (1997) an extended framework is developed to identify the determinants of new...

Regarding the growing task distribution in the area of design and product development (engineering) the idea of communities gets more importance next to the creation of classical development partnerships in engineering. Communities are known as a new organizational kind for users of electronic...

Bereits 1987 erarbeitete die Gartner Group ihre erste Studie zur Bestimmung der Kosten eines PC-Arbeitsplatzes und weckte damit erhebliches Interesse. Dabei war es ihr Ziel, nicht nur die Anschaffungskosten eines Rechners, sondern sämtliche Kosten (wie z. B. für Software und Wartung) zu...

ein Unternehmen wxistiert nicht im luftleeren Raum. Im Umfeld von fortschreitender Globalisierung, der gesellschaftliche Dynamik und der Vernetzung zischen gesellschaftlichen und wirtschaftlichen Verpflichtungen und individuellen Zielen ist der Entscheidungsfindungsprozess der Unternehmer sehr...

Durch die Verkürzung der Produktlebenszyklen und die damit verbundene steigendeAnzahl hochkomplexer Produktneuanläufe wird dem Anlaufmanagement künftig einewachsende Bedeutung zuteil. Diese Aussage wird durch die steigende Anzahl anAufsätzen und diversen Monographien zu diesem Themenkomplex...

We study the effects of policy reforms in the South on the decisions of intrafirm and arm’slength production transfers by Northern firms. We show theoretically that relaxing ownershipcontrols and improving contract enforcement can induce multinational companies to expandproduct varieties to...

This paper argues that globalization has led to a shift in developed countries from an industrial to an entrepreneurial model of production. Globalization is interpreted as a level shock in the supply of unskilled labor to the world economy, a decrease in the level of political risk associated...

Skill-biased technical change has occupied empirical economists for much of the 90s. However, the empirical literature has not progressed much beyond observing a positive correlation between technology indicators and demand shifts. Two hypotheses on the root causes of skill biases in technical...