human problems become more complex every day. these complexities need new problem solving approaches. design for sustainability is a response to these new demands. an approach leads environment, society and economy to sustain situations. design for sustainability is a new issue for iranian industrial design society. there is a lack of studies in this field. weak interaction, poverty, illiteracy...

Management at the University of Brighton in the UK. His research interests include: strategies for mass customisation and product development; value chain analysis (including manufactures from developing countries and buyers from OECD countries); continuous improvement activities and measuring company upgrading performance. He is also developing innovation indicators at the country level using ...

In modern business environment, inter-organizational collaborative product development is very important. CPC (Collaborative Product Commerce) is a new category of software, now emerging, to support interenterprise collaboration through the product life-cycle. But, so far there are not striking solutions to support collaboration among collaborative engineering groups. In this paper, we describe...

This paper examines the effect of choice architecture on Massachusetts' Health Insurance Exchange. A policy change standardized cost-sharing parameters of plans across insurers and altered information presentation. Post-change, consumers chose more generous plans and different brands, but were not more price-sensitive. We use a discrete choice model that allows the policy to affect how attribut...

An increased quantity and quality of production data raised up a need for a better and larger data sharing as between different business software as so between companies. Engineers who use CAD programs stand at the beginning of production cycle and give basic data about product, while information systems like ERP system try to consort all data about products, resources and markets, and to help ...

The Internet combined with mobile technologies and wireless devices permit organizations to access widely distributed information that is not restricted by business-unit or organizational boundaries. Large volume and high frequency data exchange as well as a wide variety of data sources characterize the new Business-to-Business commerce environments. Supply chain management (SCM) is very import...

New product development projects are experiencing increasing internal and external project complexity. Complexity leadership theory proposes that external complexity requires adaptive and enabling leadership, which facilitates opportunity recognition (OR). We ask whether internal complexity also requires OR for increased adaptability. We extend a model of EO and OR to conclude that internal com...

Strategic business nets are increasingly important in producing economic value in the global arena. This paper examines the influence of national culture on knowledge sharing in different types of intercultural business nets. Knowledge sharing is essential for the functioning of any business network as it influences the interaction between the actors and the outcomes they can achieve. Cultural ...

The fast transformation of technologies into new products or processes is one of the core challenges for any technology-based enterprise. Within the innovation process, we believe, the early phases (“fuzzy front end”) to have the highest impact on the whole process and the result (Input-Output Process), since it will influence the design and total costs of the innovation extremely. However the ...