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Knowledge integration mechanisms have increasingly been considered a key predictor of product innovation, yet some central issues related to them remain ambiguous. This study draws upon the perspectives from familiarity trap to argue a curvilinear relationship between knowledge integration mechanisms and product innovativeness. A sample of 140 product development projects from manufacturing firms...
Knowledge process is the core process in new product development, and is also an organizational learning process which is affected by learning environment. In this paper, an empirical research was conducted to explore the mechanism and paths of the interaction among learning environment, knowledge process and new product development performance. The findings indicate that the learning environment...
This paper proposes a conceptual model of social capital, external organizational integration and new product development (NPD) performance, and conducts empirical study based on the investigation of domestic manufacturing enterprises. The results show that social capital has positive impact on external organizational integration, external organizational integration has positive impact on NPD performance,...
Based on a lot of related literatures, the authors suggest a model of three factors that affect new product development performance, which include market orientation, organizational learning and organizational Innovation. The empirical result tests the relationships among them. And they all have positive influence on new product development performance. Organizational innovation also serves as a partial...
Organizational learning and product innovation are two important approaches to improve product quality. Various dimensions of them may have different effects on product quality, which has received less attention from the research community. More specifically, the role of organizational learning has not been fully addressed in quality management empirical studies. To address this gap we develop a path...
This paper proposes a conceptual model of inter-organizational relationship, information sharing and new product development (NPD) performance, and conducts empirical study based on the survey of domestic manufacturing enterprises. The results show that trust, commitment and interdependence have positive impacts on information sharing, commitment and information sharing have positive impacts on NPD...
Reliability data is basic element for implementation of various reliability project, the main goal of this paper is to analyze the problems of the reliability information management in the process of product development, and discuss the definition, principle as well as information sharing mechanism. Finally, a primary suggestion and plan for future work is put forward.
Software product line engineering is an inter-disciplinary concept. It spans over the dimensions of business, architecture, process and organization. Some of the potential benefits of this approach include cost reduction, improvement in quality and a decrease in product development time. Employees' participation, organizational behavior and management contemplation play a vital role in successfully...
The successful development and market insertion of a financially successful new product requires technology, marketing, manufacturing, and luck. This paper suggests various steps in the process that are critical to success. More specifically, the paper deals with the special problems encountered by small business. The analysis is presented in light of the Small Business Innovative Research program...
At present, new product development (NPD) has become the key to company survival and development in all industries. But conventional wisdom can also threaten a companypsilas ability to compete. NPD researches, mostly dwelling on company level, were found to ignore the product users-customers. This study, however, based on transaction cost theory and from knowledge sharing perspective, is to explore...
How should a company organize a project team to develop new products? This study examined the relative effectiveness of four types of team structures by comparing the performance of 559 development projects in terms of development cost, new product development speed, and product commercial success. The results indicate that in general, autonomous team structure is superior to other team structures,...
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