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A stricter merger control policy increases the expectation of future price competition. In response, firms increase product differentiation to sustain higher prices. Failing to account for such policy-variant prices may lead to overestimation of the increase in consumer surplus due to the stricter merger policy, rendering the policy analysis subject to the Lucas Critique. D 2004 Elsevier B.V. A...

In order to face their global competitors, one solution consists for manufacturing companies around the world to implement the Toyota Production System (TPS). Lean manufacturing evolved from TPS. The purpose of the paper is to demonstrate that lean principles and concepts can be successfully applied in a company from the retail industry, such as Seven-Eleven Japan. Lean retailing is now a reali...

Action Design Research (ADR) has been termed a new research method for generating prescriptive design knowledge through building and evaluating ensemble IT artifacts in an organizational setting. This paper demonstrates the use of the ADR methodology in a New Software Product Development (NSPD) environment. The main argument of this paper is to investigate whether ADR facilitates engaged schola...

In this paper an innovative approach is presented, which enables modeling and exchanging information about the uncertainty of product properties along the product life cycle providing improvement for product development. A system which is called “COPE” (Collaborative Ontology-based Property Engineering System) is proposed, which uses the advantages of an ontologybased approach. The proposed sys...

There is significant interest in managing IT resources as a portfolio of assets. The concept of IT portfolio management (ITPM) is relatively new, compared to portfolio management in the context of finance, new product development (NPD), and research and development (R&D). This article compares ITPM with other types of portfolio management, and develops an improved understanding of IT assets and...

A growing number of companies are using these approaches in helping to synthesize designs ... enabling the automaker to achieve a 50% improvement in product development efficiency, cost savings exceeding $10 billion, and a compression of vehicle development time by 18 months.