Much discussion in the new product development (NPD) literature is concerned with describing blueprints for more effective systems for managing the process. Features of the emergent pattern of good practice in NPD include cross-functional team working, early involvement, effective project management arrangements and learning systems. However, there is relatively little in the literature on the ...

The growth rate of total factor productivity seems to have increased recently, at least in the United States. Higher US productivity growth may justify higher stock market valuations than in the past and thus herald an emerging New Economy. However, the size of the estimated growth rate of total factor productivity depends on an assumption about the factor-augmenting properties of technological...

INTRODUCTION ............................................................................. 219 Back to School ........................................................................... 219 A New Economy ....................................................................... 220 A New Framework .................................................................... 220 Some Caveats ..................

Since Government transparency and information open has got more attention by both academia and practitioners with the development of information technologies (IT) and Internet, The popularity of Web 2.0 application provides the government some new opportunities and challenges. Official documents exchange via microblogging (ODEM) in the Bureau of Justice, Haining is a practice case of government...

The importance of knowledge management to business increases and there are few signs that the pace would slow down. This is due to the fact that more and more of the added value companies create is built on the tacit and explicit knowledge that individuals possess and create. The purpose of a company is, by its existence, to produce more value than individual actors operating alone. One of the ...

Scholars have established that team membership has wide-ranging effects on cognition, dynamics, processes and performance. Underlying that scholarship is the assumption that team membership – who is and who is not a team member – is straightforward, unambiguous and agreed upon by all members. Contrary to this assumption, I posit that as a result of changing environmental conditions, mental mode...

cconcerning the emer gence of substantial changes in major cities within the past two decades and its relationship to a set of ideas which envisage the emergence of a new urban era, this article will try to examine the different aspects of the new urban policies as a necessary response to a new national and international economy. cconcerning the emer gence of substantial changes in major cities...

The O-Ring theory provides a framework to analyse the emergence of firms organized as partnerships. The ownermanagers of such entrepreneurial firms can benefit from ability matching within their production teams. However, they must also bear the project risk. Risk-aversion then induces a second-best solution. At the same time, integrated firms managed on behalf of risk-neutral residual-claimant...