This paper investigated the critical role of knowledge sharing (KS) in leveraging manufacturing activities, namely, integrated supply management (ISM) and new product development (NPD), to improve business performance (BP), within the context of Taiwanese electronic manufacturing companies. The research adopted a sequential mixed method research design, which provided both quantitative empirica...

In modern large new product development (NPD) organisations the embedded software teams do not work in isolation but develop software in complex interrelationships with the other teams of the product development. Specifically the software team must interface with the system and hardware developments. Ambitious industrial product development programs require typically concurrent engineering of t...

Empirical research has demonstrated that a market orientation has in general a positive effect on organizational performance. The potential benefits of a market orientation have, however, not been realized because academics and practitioners do not yet understand the modus operandi that transform market orientation into superior organizational performance. Recent research has demonstrated that ...

0957-4174/$ see front matter 2009 Elsevier Ltd. A doi:10.1016/j.eswa.2009.02.019 * Corresponding author. Tel.: +852 2788 8306. E-mail address: [email protected] (K.-S. Chin New product development (NPD) is a crucial process to keep a company being competitive. However, because of its inherent features, NPD is a process with high risk as well as high uncertainty. To ensure a smooth operation...

Although the benefits of involving suppliers in new product development (NPD) under technological uncertainty are not unambiguously affirmed, many firms need to involve suppliers under these circumstances anyway as not all technological knowledge resides within the firm. Previous research argues that purchasing fulfils an important role in involving the suppliers in NPD. However, purchasing’s r...

In rapidly changing market environment, firms are investing a lot of time and resources into new product development (NPD) projects to make profit and to obtain competitive advantage. However, failure rate of NPD projects is becoming high due to various internal and external risks which hinder successful NPD projects. To reduce the failure rate, it is critical that risks have to be managed effe...

This paper takes two perspectives on the interface between marketing and manufacturing: a strategic perspective and a functional perspective. The former addresses the strategic links between the two functions, whereas the latter focuses on the more operational aspects of co-ordination between the two functions. While integration of marketing and manufacturing strategies is important, it can onl...

The purpose of this paper is to analyse the link between adoption sustainability practices and new product development (NPD) in manufacturing companies. From a triple bottom line (TBL) perspective considering different theoretical approaches, study hypothesises on effect both internal external practices, distinguishing collaborative controlling initiatives, success products. Using unique databa...

Project Based Learning (PBL) is a powerful tool for teaching that helps students to get the best out of their effort in terms of the learning results obtained, even more in studies like university degree studies in engineering. A way of getting even more of this is by means of the adaptation of methodologies from different knowledge areas, because this allows the launch of innovative ways of wo...