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A fundamental problem in managing product development is the optimal timing, frequency, and fidelity of sequential testing activities that are carried out to evaluate novel product concepts and designs. In this paper, we develop a mathematical model that treats testing as an activity that...
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Indonesia launched Jampersal in 2011, a nationwide program to accelerate the reduction of maternal and newborn deaths. The program was financed by central government revenues and provided free and comprehensive maternal and neonatal care with an emphasis on promoting institutional deliveries....
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Product design decisions substantially affect the cost and revenue drivers. A design configuration with commonality can … lower manufacturing cost. However, such a design may hinder the ability to extract price premiums through product … differentiation. We explicitly investigate the marketing-manufacturing trade-off and derive analytical implications for three possible …
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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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for different purposes: product design and corporate communications. Links with marketing are made, essentially by … examining how design affects elements of the marketing mix. Finally, evidence is presented to support the argument that design …In our paper, design is considered briefly in different contexts – product and manufacture, service and retail – and …
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hence the craft industry is often overlooked in discourses of development. In the course of ‘bigger picture’ discourses … craft production to inner-city regeneration, local economic development, rural–urban development, and socio …-economic change by evaluating the effects of a particular craft project known as Beautiful Things, located in the inner city of …
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Politics of Patronage and Protest: The State, Society, and Artisans in Early Modern Rajasthan by Nandita Prasad Sahai, Oxford University Press, 2006; 304 pp, $35.00 (cloth), ISBN978-0-19-567896-3.
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This study presents the old cultural traditions of the Osica de Sus commune, in the context of the different events of collective life. It emphasizes the specific customs of the community and the main elements of ethnographic culture (the household and the house, popular wear, crafts, etc.) and...
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discuss learning the trade and the craft of fishmongering, the social relations of the market, and the art of buying and …
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