One feature of concurrent engineering is the notion of distributed design, and the ability to communicate changes to all participating disciplines. However, successful engineering design is constrained by the complexities of design activity. The differences in system architectures or methodologies, the diverse knowledge and information generated by these distributed disciplines, all compounded ...

Abstract Although it is widely accepted that entrepreneurial orientation (EO) improves firm performance, scholars have advised particular attention should be paid to the context. In this research, we investigate a less explored context of franchising where business systems and procedures are usually dictated franchisees by franchisors. Therefore, whether franchisor allow pursue EO (innovativene...

Air transport in Europe is experiencing unprecedented levels of demand. Industry forecasts suggest a doubling of demand by 2020. Airport managers are under increasing pressure to provide innovative infrastructural solutions in order to meet this demand. Proactively supplying capacity to air transport users can involve a degree of risk-taking. Organic organisation structures, as opposed to mecha...

Due to the context-sensitive nature of entrepreneurial orientation (EO), it is imperative to in-depth explore the EO-performance mechanism in China at its critical, specific stage of economic reform. Under the context of "reverse internationalization" by Chinese global startup original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), this paper aims to manifest the unique links and complicated interrelationship...

Objective: To identify the configuration of dimensions entrepreneurial orientation (risk-taking, innovativeness and proactiveness), which lead to high enterprise performance; differences in this regard between micro, small medium-sized enterprises. Research Design & Methods: The study employed a fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA). This method was applied separately for three...

Innovative healthcare projects are arising in today’s society, normally presenting as major advantage the reduction of care provider’s costs. Being these advantage a legitimate one, we are trying to take it a step forward through the use of proactiveness, decision making techniques, idea generation, argumentation and quality, not only of the in transit information, but also of the provided serv...

In transformational strategy contexts such as digitalization, the entrepreneurial behavior of firm's employees is crucial. This study examines role employees’ individual-level orientation (IEO) in terms proactiveness, risk-taking, and innovativeness, their relational capital within organization, on performance achieving organizations’ digital goals. We hypothesize that all IEO dimensions are po...

The increasing use of multi-agent systems brings challenges that have not been studied yet, such as how should we adapt requirements elicitation to cope with agent properties like autonomy, sociability and proactiveness. Many methodologies were proposed adopting this new paradigm. However, most of them are still in their early phases and therefore need to be adapted. In this work ADELFE, an age...