This paper presents a longitudinal case of Motorola’s R&D subsidiary in Beijing over the period 1998–2008. Through the construction of key events and changes, the paper unfolds the evolutionary process of Motorola’s R&D capability in China, and explores the mechanisms driving that evolution. We find that this R&D subsidiary evolved through four stages: from a local adaption unit performing adap...

Abstract Understanding the value of a product development project is central to a firm’s choice of project portfolio. The value of a project to a firm depends not only on the project’s properties but also on the other projects being developed by the firm. This is due to interactions with other projects in the portfolio that address the same consumer need and with other projects that require the...

Teams developing innovations work in a context ripe with uncertainty, and handling this uncertainty places special demands on the leaders of such teams. We empirically tested the role of leader personality in the success of two different types of New Product Development (NPD) teams: radical and incremental. Using the five-factor model of personality as a framework, results based on a sample of ...

Using data on listed and unlisted firms in the U.K., this study documents systematic changes of profitability with age. In their early years, firms realize substantial profitability increases, on average, while mature firms face slow declines in profitability. A model of endogenous profitability changes arising from product development captures this pattern. Investment in product development ge...

In design process of manufacturing, designers analyze the factor of phenomena and apply solutions to phenomena (such as resizing, changing electrical circuits, and modification of mass). There may be often conflicts based on chain relations among solutions which designers cannot recognize. We focus on validating these solutions. In this paper, we propose an ontology for representing chain relat...

The potential benefits of nanotechnologies in healthcare are widely expected to be enormous and a considerable amount of investment is already pouring into public research in this area. These high expectations of benefits are coupled with uncertainty surrounding the potential risks of the prospective products containing nanomaterials, in addition to concerns about the adequacy of regulatory ove...

The emerging industrial business partnerships, which feature cross-functional and cross-company development efforts, raise the barrier for the establishment of effective knowledge sharing practices in the larger organization. This chapter aims to highlight the role of knowledge as a key enabler for effective engineering activities in the light of such emerging enterprise collaboration models. K...

I describe our approach and mechanisms to support the engineering of organiza tional processes throughout their life cycle I describe our current understanding of what activities are included in the process life cycle I then go on to describe our ap proach computational mechanisms and experiences in supporting many of these life cycle activities as well as compare it to other related e orts Alo...

a Department of Organization and Management, CUNEF School of Business and Finance, C/Leonardo Prieto Castro 2, 28040 Ciudad Universitaria, Madrid, Spain b Ikujiro Nonaka Research Centre on Knowledge and Innovation, CUNEF School of Business and Finance, C/Leonardo Prieto Castro 2, 28040 Ciudad Universitaria, Madrid, Spain c Department of Business Administration, Faculty of Economics and Business...