One of the greatest challenges in managing product development projects is identifying an appropriate sequence of many coupled activities. The current study presents an effective approach for determining the activity sequence with minimum total feedback time in a design structure matrix (DSM)....

Shorter product life cycles in many industries impel firms to accelerate the product development process. Overlapping development stages, combined with frequent information exchange, is commonly regarded as a core technique for faster product development. However, overlapping and communication...

Testing is an important activity in product development. Past studies, which are developed to determine the optimal scheduling of tests, often focused on single-stage testing of sequential design process. This paper presents an analytical model for the scheduling of tests in overlapped design...

In recent years, information and communication technologies (ICTs) have significantly affected the outcomes of large-scale collective actions. In addition, there is a well-known theoretical proposition that ICTs can fuel collective action by increasing individuals’ social connectivity...

Local opinion heterogeneity (LOH) critically influences an individual’s choice of collective behaviors, such as voting and protesting. However, several empirical studies have presented different conclusions on how LOH affects such preference. In the current research, the effect of LOH is...

We present a robust model for determining the optimal order quantity and market selection for short-life-cycle products in a single period, newsvendor setting. Due to limited information about demand distribution in particular for short-life-cycle products, stochastic modeling approaches may not...

This paper discusses lanthanide doped luminescent materials which can modify the solar spectrum to reduce the spectral losses encountered by PV (photovoltaic) devices and enhance the conversion efficiency. High cost owing to low conversion efficiency is a limiting factor for contribution of PV...

Although scholars have studied outside executive succession for decades, there is still no clear definition of the term “outsider”. We focus on a new dimension of outsiderness, the industrial background of executives hired from outside the firm into a CEO position. This paper examines the...

Overlapping of development stages and interaction between different functions are regarded as important strategies for reducing development lead time. However, overlapping typically requires additional costs for rework and functional interaction increases communication time. This paper presents...