Networking for global new product innovation
DOI: 10.1504/IJBIR.2006.011086 | Edward F. McDonough III, Nicholas Athanassiou, Gloria Barczak | The competitive advantage of companies that successfully develop new products globally lies in their ability to effectively manage knowledge across national boundaries. When it comes to global innovation, it is the dynamic creation, accessi... | 9 - 26 |
Strategic integration of knowledge in Indian pharmaceutical firms: creating competencies for innovation
DOI: 10.1504/IJBIR.2006.011086 | Kalpana Chaturvedi, Joanna Chataway | Trade liberalisation and changes in the Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) have fashioned new dynamics in the pharmaceutical industry across the globe. Firms are forced to bring changes to their research, innovation, technology and marketin... | 27 - 50 |
Innovation of e-procurement: a case study
DOI: 10.1504/IJBIR.2006.011086 | L.R. Foulds, M. West | Many organisations are increasingly searching for innovative processes and methods to achieve competitive advantage and to more fully take advantage of what they have in order to improve. This article is an illustration of this in a particu... | 51 - 72 |
Entrepreneurial education in Poland for the new millennium: a social capital perspective
DOI: 10.1504/IJBIR.2006.011086 | Shahid Yamin, Janusz K. Tanas | This paper examine entrepreneurial education from a social capital perspective. Extant literature in both social capital and entrepreneurial education is reviewed. A more philosophical approach is undertaken to determine entrepreneurial mea... | 73 - 91 |
A generic framework for analysing product cannibalisation
DOI: 10.1504/IJBIR.2006.011086 | Sundara Raghavan Srinivasan, Sreeram Ramakrishnan, Scott E. Grasman | This paper contributes a generic framework for analysing product cannibalisation. Although the factors affecting product cannibalisation in mature product portfolios have been well studied, issues regarding the performance of a new product ... | 92 - 110 |
Integration TRIZ with problem-solving tools: a literature review from 1995 to 2006
DOI: 10.1504/IJBIR.2006.011086 | Zhongsheng Hua, Jie Yang, Solomani Coulibaly, Bin Zhang | This paper surveys Theory of Inventive Problem Solving (TRIZ) integration into other creativity tools, methods and philosophies using a literature review of publications from 1995 to 2006. After explaining the motivation of the integrations... | 111 - 128 |
A path to mature market: logistic regression approach to delineate between emerging, transition and developed markets
DOI: 10.1504/IJBIR.2006.011086 | Omar J. Khan, Taewon Suh, Ik-Whan G. Kwon | Whereas conceptual guidelines exist to identify where along a continuum of market emergence a country may fall, researchers need a quantitative tool with which they can better delineate countries into the existing groupings. This study inco... | 129 - 143 |
A cultural artefact |show-and-tell|: a paedagogical tool for teaching cross-cultural management
DOI: 10.1504/IJBIR.2006.011086 | Ken I. Kim | This paedagogical tool was developed for an international management course of which the concept of country culture was a prominent element. Each team (or each individual, if teams are not utilised) identifies and brings to class a cultur... | 144 - 148 |
Redesigned quality function deployment process to ensure customer satisfaction
DOI: 10.1504/IJBIR.2006.011086 | Cheol Hwoan Yoon, Yong Pil Kim, Deok Kyun Yun | Quality Function Deployment (QFD) provides a systematic approach to product enhancement and has been widely implemented in modern enterprises. Despite its wide implementation, however, customer dissatisfaction continues to be an issue in QF... | 149 - 169 |
Informational exchanges and dynamics of internet pornography in an e-commerce environment
DOI: 10.1504/IJBIR.2006.011086 | Alan D. Smith | Pornography is the most widely searched topic on the internet today, and is becoming an increasingly controversial topic in society. Through research and surveys, we have found that internet pornography has become an increasing burden and t... | 170 - 190 |
Perceptions of a UK university as a knowledge-intensive business service enhancing organisational and regional service innovation
DOI: 10.1504/IJBIR.2006.011086 | John Sparrow, Michele Mooney, Nick Lancaster | Much of the thinking concerning the role of universities| contribution to industry within the UK has focused upon science research, technology transfer, and policy-level deliberations. There is clear evidence that innovation occurs beyond t... | 191 - 203 |
Design and implementation study of innovative total quality function deployment and its financial accounting system
DOI: 10.1504/IJBIR.2006.011086 | S. Vinodh, S.R. Devadasan, D. Rajanayagam | Quality Function Deployment (QFD) is used for translating customers| vague languages into technical languages. Of late, researchers and theoreticians have been contributing advanced QFD models. In this context, this paper reports a research... | 204 - 232 |
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