Interorganizational alliances are widely recognized as critical to product innovation, particularly in high technology markets. Many new product development (NPD) alliances tend to be asymmetric, that is, they are formed between a larger firm and a smaller firm. These asymmetric alliances typically result in changes in the shareholder values of the partner firms. Are the changes in shareholder ...

There is consensus in the marketing literature that market knowledge and cross-functional collaboration are two fundamental resources for successful product innovation. However, few studies examine the dimensions or characteristics of market knowledge and how and why these resources influence product innovation performance. Drawing on contingency theory and the knowledge-based view of the firm,...

Traditionally, in software engineering, development happens for single products. This is a very inefficient approach in cases where groups of products are related. Software product line engineering [1] is about systematically developing families of related products together, as a product line. The products within a product line usually have many things in common, but also significant difference...

A cross-reactive colorimetric sensor array composed of solvatochromic dyes in semi-liquid matrices was used to successfully discriminate among eleven common solvents. The multidimensional array response is attributed to both chemical (i.e., analyte-dye interactions) and physical (i.e., spot blooming and refractive index alteration) changes in the sensor spot.

This paper presents a novel approach to speaker orientation estimation in a SmartRoom environment equipped with multiple microphones. The ratio between the high and low band energies (HLBR) received at each microphone has been shown in our previous work to be a potentially approach to estimate the direction of the voice produced by a speaker. In this work, for each microphone pair, a smoothed C...

This paper applies the construct of task uncertainty to study relationships between product development project characteristics and project outcomes. We characterize product development projects in terms of their technology novelty and project complexity levels. This characterization is based on product development literature and organizational information processing theory. We hypothesize that...

Cross-border electronic-commerce (CBEC) is growing. However, due to differences in culture, habits, history and language among other factors, consumers different regions may have perception towards the same product information on CBEC platforms, which lead their cognition of with implications for purchase intentions. Presently, little research has attempted understand whether there are such bet...

It is probably safe to say that just about everyone reading this article is familiar with the cross product and the dot product. However, what many readers may not be aware of is that the familiar properties of the cross product in three space can only be extended to R. Students are usually first exposed to the cross and dot products in a multivariable calculus or linear algebra course. Let u 6...