Purpose – Did the Soviet development strategy of according high priority to firms in heavy industry give these firms an advantage during Russia's transition to a market-oriented economy? This paper seeks to answer this question. Design/methodology/approach – To document industry variation in...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide an empirical evaluation of the impact of infrastructure development on industry-level productivity, output and efficiency in India over the period 1994-2006. Design/methodology/approach – The first stage, estimated total factor productivity...

The article offers a scheme of the process of calculation of a standard price for consideration. This scheme includes three stages. The first stage - the task of price aggregation. The article describes a model for aggregation of calculation of standard prices with the help of analysis of...

В данной статье предложена к рассмотрению схема процесса подсчета стандартной цены. Эта схема включает четыре этапа. Первый этап – задача агрегации цен. С...

A product often requires inspection on more than one characteristic. The traditional method determines inspection specifications for each characteristic independently. This practice ignores the interactions among characteristics in determining the disposition of an item, and prohibits tradeoffs...

The author analyzes in the paper the role of creativity and design in innovations, with emphasis on three theoretical models linking creativity, design and innovations. The effective use of design is linked to design management. The concept of design management relates to certain management...

The author analyzes in the paper the role of creativity and design in innovations, with emphasis on three theoretical models linking creativity, design and innovations. The effective use of design is linked to design management. The concept of design management relates to certain management...

The need for design managers to understand service characteristics as well as their business types has been unexplored in the literature of design management. The paper focuses on the identification of the design practice in the service industry. Particularly, it aims to answer the following...

This paper considers the role of lean product development (LPD) as part of a company's overall innovation strategy. Our discussion contends that the value-concept in LPD is too strongly tied to product features, and that this may lead to: (i) overemphasis on utilitarian value, (ii) preference...

In this article, we are interested in managing engineering design of ad hoc wireless network. We have to design topology of such networks to guarantee all nodes cover. So, spanning tree concept is applied to design and optimise the tree with the constraint of the degree (d-MSTP) of the...