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innovation and technological change when undertaking new product development. Focusing on the management of technology, it will … straightforward. Innovation is a complex process shaped not only by the firm's internal environment, but also by the interactions that … appreciate the value of these interactions in promoting innovation. However, for those involved in innovative new product …
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This paper empirically shows that innovation in Information Technology (IT) has become increasingly dependent on and … intertwined with innovation in software. This change in the nature of IT innovation has had differential effects on the …’s contribution in IT innovation and the differential innovation performance of US and Japanese electronics, semiconductors, and …
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Product innovation has transformed the minds of business people because of its ability to increase productivity. Other … lowering the prices consumers have to pay. Product innovation if managed correctly will create wealth and reward risk-taking by … means of technological development throughout organisational processes. SMEs fail to manage product innovation because they …
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Firms collaborate to develop and deliver new products. These collaborations vary in terms of the similarity of the competencies that partnering firms bring to the alliance. In same-function alliances, partnering firms have similar competencies, whereas in cross-function alliances, partners have...
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Changes in the global economy and technological advances are stimulating an increasing geographic distribution of new product design and development efforts. For large organizations that design and develop complex products, this geographic distribution has added a new layer of complexity to...
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provide companies with an innovation strategy and enable designers to achieve their potential. …
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New product development is central to many firms’ future success. Not only as a means to continue to maintain their piece of the market, but product development can also be a strategic means for a company to diversify, and/or alter focus to adapt to changing market conditions. Most of the...
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This paper traces the new product development of Hyundai MotorCompany, Korea, which, since its foundation in 1967, has maintained theself reliance strategy, particularly in new product development. Businessstrategy of Hyundai contrasts sharply with other auto makers in developingcountries as...
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Distributed innovation processes are considered as a new option to handle both the complexity and the speed in which … new products and services need to be prepared. Indeed most research on innovation processes was focused on multinational … companies with an intra-organisational perspective. The phenomena of innovation processes in networks - with an inter …
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The objective of this paper is to analyze sources of labor productivity growth in the Kansas farm sector over the period 1993-2006 for a sample of 668 farms. The nonparametric production frontier method is used to decompose labor productivity growth into three components: (1) technological...
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