The importance of green innovation management is growing in practice and academia likewise. To our knowledge, a recent and comprehensive literature review is lacking. In this paper we contribute to a clarification of the concept “green innovation” and provide an overview of the existing body...

Technological advancements, especially in Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) have enhanced greatly the competition spurred by the globalization of the world economies. Even small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are no more immune to the challenges that the globalization brings...

The internationalization of corporate research and development (R&D) is an increasing trend with implications for both R&D managers and policy makers. In this research, 62 foreign-owned R&D facilities from information and communication technology (ICT) industries as well as life sciences...

Im Fahrzeugbau und im Verkehrswesen hat die praktische Umsetzung von Ubiquitous Computing Technologien einen hohen Grad erreicht. Unter diesem Begriff ist die Ausstattung unterschiedlicher Gegenst?nde mit Prozessoren und Sensoren zu verstehen, welche in der Lage sind, Daten ?ber ihren eigenen...

Eine hohe Informationsverfügbarkeit und sich schnell wandelnde Produkt- und Produktionstechnologien dominieren die Wettbewerbsumgebung des 21. Jahrhunderts. Neben der Senkung von Kosten entwickelt sich insbesondere die schnelle und individuelle Umsetzung von Kundenanforderungen in neue Produkte...

The Product Life Cycle (PLC) concept is a well-known marketing strategy and planning tool. The concept is based on a simple biological analogy of stages over a product's "life," which is intuitively appealing, but unfortunately has limited utility in practice. For such a prominent marketing...

Maximizing potential revenue and profitability performance continues to be a key objective for Direct Checks as the company’s core product - personal checks - moves through the decline stage of the product life cycle; and, the department with the most potential to positively impact the...

Due to increasing interest in sustainable development, today s engineer is often tasked with designing systems that are environmentally benign over their entire life cycles. Unfortunately, environmental assessments commonly suffer from significant uncertainty due to lack of information,...

Environmental costs of products are closely related to their environmental impacts incurred at all life cycle stages of a product. Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and Life Cycle Costing (LCC) methods are often used to estimate these environmental costs and impacts. However, LCA analysis is known to...

Traditional macroeconometric models of the Australian economy estimate the behaviour of wage and price inflation separately, thereby ignoring the possibility that there is a contemporaneous relationship between these two variables. This thesis follows a recent trend emerging in other small open...