With the advent of the new wireless technologies allowing for higher data rates, the provision of high quality multimedia services over the upcoming wireless and mobile networks is gaining momentum. These future mobile networks are witnessed to consist of a variety of heterogeneous wireless access technologies connected to a high-speed IP datagram-based core network. The heterogeneity of these ...

Since broadband network connections are becoming ubiquitous, people expect access to multimedia content anywhere anytime. This new demand results in a need to create and develop new, powerful devices for multimedia consumption. The new devices, each having their set of network and terminal capabilities, allow transparent access to multimedia and therefore open the path to transparent mobility o...

background aging is an irreversible natural process characterized by a decline in both the physical and mental status of individuals. because of multiple factors, this process and its consequences vary greatly between individuals. a successful aging (sa) is the target of current health policies and well-being of individuals. knowing the factors that contribute to sa and its barriers would trans...

This study investigates the product development process of two small firms in the Norwegian software industry. A firm’s ability to mobilize its capabilities and align them dynamically with the changing environment is of vital importance as the firm constantly innovates to survive and create its own competitive advantage. While literature has addressed new product development process and challen...

Based on the increased demand for product customization and the intensified competition, manufacturing companies are today more than ever required to deliver product variants in an efficient manner. Research on mass customization has, up until now, primarily focused on clarifying the organizational capabilities defining successful mass customizers. Choice navigation is identified as one of the ...

Process change remains a hot topic for both business and IT departments in organizations worldwide. In this research-in-progress paper, informed by the Dynamic Capability Theory of the firm, we develop a theoretical framework that contributes to the understanding of IT-enabled business process change, and elements of the dynamic capabilities that contribute to change success. Specifically, our ...

novelty or the pure and unique creation is the profoundest item in economic development and entrepreneurship in every country. however, there is no consensus regarding the process of creation of novelty among economists so that “schumpeter” used the term “impossible” to define this unknowable process because this subject cannot be described within the theoretical framework of orthodox conceptua...

This paper seeks to compare the export and technological capabilities generated by foreign and local electronics firms in Malaysia, Philippines and Thailand, and to explain their determinants. FDI has been the key driver of electronics exports in all three economies. While the data available prevented an assessment of the role of FDI in technology diffusion to local firms, it was sufficient to ...