OBJECTIVE To establish whether consensus exists among 3 diagnostic systems that outline criteria for narcissistic personality disorders (NPDs) in children (Kernberg), in adolescents (Bleiberg), and in adults primarily (DSM-IV) and to identify age-related criteria for preadolescents. METHOD A comparative analysis was used to determine the rate of concordance for the 9 DSM-IV criteria for NPD. ...

Current literature indicates a high rate of New Product Development (NDP) failure. Many believe that the main reason behind such failures is the way the NPD process is managed. This includes a lack of clear project definition, too much focus on internal processes and procedures ignoring customer needs and requirements, lack of communication and knowledge transfer among various people within the...

Successful new product development (NPD) activities need high amounts of new knowledge from a variety of different sources. When the NPD activities are seen as a process of knowledge accumulation, two knowledge processes are identified: knowledge acquisition and knowledge utilization. This study focuses on the process of knowledge acquisition from external knowledge sources in the NPD of SMEs. ...

Nano-polycrystalline diamond (NPD) [Irifune et al. (2003), Nature (London), 421, 599] has been used to obtain a glitch-free X-ray absorption spectrum under high pressure. In the case of conventional single-crystal diamond (SCD) anvils, glitches owing to Bragg diffraction from the anvils are superimposed on X-ray absorption spectra. The glitch has long been a serious problem for high-pressure re...

A well-planned and well-executed new product development (NPD) process, which produces a stream of timely and high quality products, can provide significant competitive advantage to a company. Focusing on product quality as a key measure of NPD performance, we examine the impact of technical and organizational factors on a vehicle development process. Our results indicate that centrality in a p...

Knowledge is recognized as an important weapon for new product development (NPD) performance, and many firms are beginning to manage the knowledge detained by their new product development processes. Researchers have investigated knowledge management factors such as enablers, creation processes, and performance. However, very few studies have explored the relationship between these factors in t...

INTRODUCTION Over the last twenty years new product development (NPD) has become an important aspect of competition between firms (Brown & Eisenhardt, 1995) and a growing area of research in the fields of management, strategy and marketing (Song & Montoya-Weiss, 2001). Studies have identified a number of factors that impact NPD performance, including appropriate corporate strategy and organizat...

a r t i c l e i n f o Keywords: New product development Open innovation Media richness Knowledge exchange Interorganizational communication In new product development (NPD), the buyer–supplier relationship is changing. Suppliers are becoming an integral part of the design team. This study investigates the effectiveness of computer-mediated and face-to-face communication channels on knowledge ex...

In today’s competitive world, there are several strategies to deal with the fast changing environment, among which New product development (NPD) is a common strategy. However, almost half of the resources that companies devote to NPD are spent on products that may fail. This issue is particularly highlighted in the pharmaceutical industry mainly because of a long development-time, low success r...

new product development (npd) is described in the literature as the transformation of a market opportunity into a product available for sale. in the automotive industry, within the context of iso/ts16949:2002 (the automotive quality management system international standard),  these related to the product realization process (prp) which consists of three main phases such as planning, implementat...