Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) have many potential applications virtually in wide areas ranging from engineering to management. Recently, a great deal of interest (and effort) has been directed towards using ANNs in business practice. In particular, they have been used in areas which were...

In the current global competitive environment, if an organization is to be successful, it has to be a learning organization. Organizations learn from their assertive and adaptive interaction with the environment and from their internal dynamics. Organizational learning needs to be supported as...

While product modularity is often advocated as a design strategy in the operations management literature, little is known about how customers respond to modular products. In this research we undertake several experiments to explore consumer response to modularly upgradeable products in settings...

Few terms in the recent literature on innovation management have been as widely used as the phrase disruptive technology. Yet this term is widely misunderstood. As Christensen and Raynor (2003, p. 143) note, "Many readers have equated in their minds the terms disruptive and breakthrough. It is...