The concept of this paper is based on the framework in which the research is situated within the social structure that constitutes people, activity, context and culture. It explores industrial(product) design’s and artifact’s contribution to knowledge generation and its utilisation by...

The Exploring Design and Innovation booklet was developed as a curriculum resource to disseminate information about Millennium Products and the Design Council's Sharing Innovation web site. The Sharing Innovation project examined over 80% of the 1000 plus Millennium Products, looking at their...

As we are about to enter both a new century and new millennium the human race appears to be engaging in universal stock taking. Auditing the past seems to be a means of coming to terms with the future.Design is not exempt from these phenomena. Both designers and design educationists are...

Engineers and product designers have developed sophisticated models to predict the technical performance of their designs, yet they seldom quantify how performance affects the desirability of the resulting products to consumers. Without this information, managers have difficulty judging which...

While conjoint analysis has been applied in a wide variety of different contexts in Marketing, most applications fail to explicitly consider retaliatory reactions from competitors. In this paper, a methodological extension is developed for conjoint analysis by explicitly modeling competition in...

Bucket pricing entails a prepaid price and a maximum consumption limit, which requires consumers to make advance purchase decisions before their consumption needs are fully revealed. We propose a dynamic model that involves how consumers form expectations of future consumption needs, learn to...

The past few years have witnessed the increasing ubiquity ofuser-generated content on seller reputation and product condition inInternet based used-good markets. Recent theoretical models of tradingand sorting in used-good markets provide testable predictions to use toexamine the presence of...

One bank that is committed in managing Islamic banking services is Bank Syariah Mandiri.Bank Syariah Mandiri, a bank run business based on Islamic Sharia principles. This principle is poured into a pillar muamalah based on the value of fairness, trust, partnership, transparency, and mutual...

This paper assesses International Joint Venture (IJV) marketing performance in the Republic of Thailand, as opposed to general business performance. Furthermore, the paper develops an objective measure to assess IJV marketing performance and compares two different types of measures for measuring...

The Linder hypothesis states that countries of similar income per capita should trade more intensely with one another. This hypothesis has attracted substantial research over decades, but the empirical evidence has failed to provide consistent support for it. This paper shows that the reason for...