Original scientific paper The competitiveness of the economy to a large extent depends on its ability to innovate. There is a consensus between researchers and business practices on the high importance of innovation management process, particularly in the earliest stage when it is necessary to identify business opportunities and find the best possibilities for their realizations. In the process...

This paper addresses knowledge management assumptions and development visions in the following types of organisations: organic product-focused and organic service-focused organisations, mechanistic bureaucratic and mechanistic product-focused organisations that represent different models of value creation. These types of organisations are identified and examined in relation to the changing know...

The paper concerns the characteristic of conditions and processes, which permanently influence the unemployment, as the result of domestic product fluctuation. The economic reality determinates the character of the relationship between the domestic production and labour market as the system. It signals, the connection between the two variables depends not only on the domestic product change, bu...

This paper presents a new framework for comprehensively evaluating the sustainability content of a product through Product Sustainability Index (PSI) in terms of all three components of sustainability (economy, environment and society) over its total life-cycle (pre-manufacturing, manufacturing, use, post-use). This method is useful in comparing various competitive products of the same family. ...

The Canadian Information and Communication Technology (ICT) accounted for $60.6 billion to Canadian Gross Domestic Product (GDP) by 2006. In this paper, we analyze the dynamics and the key factors involved in the downfall of the ICT sector during the period of 2000-2003. In particular, we discuss factors including low-cost capital, irrational forecasts, excessive investment in innovative soluti...

Prior research suggests that supply chain collaboration has enabled companies to compete more efficiently in a global economy. We investigate a class of collaboration software for product development called collaborative product commerce (CPC), and estimate its impact on product quality, design cycle time and development cost. We develop a theoretical framework to study the impact of CPC on pro...

The study investigates the impact of taxation on the Nigerian economy for the period 1994 -2012.The dependent variables used in the model includes: Gross Domestic Product (GDP) as a parameter for measuring economic growth, Inflation and unemployment. The objective is this study is to determine how taxation affects these macroeconomic variables. To avoid spurious results, the data set collected ...

Mass customization is becoming an important agenda in industry and academia alike. This paper deals with mass customization from a product development perspective. A framework of design for mass customization (DFMC) by developing product family architecture (PFA) is presented. To deal with tradeoffs between diversity of customer requirements and reusability of design and process capabilities, D...