Objective There is a growing interest in the customers’ innovation in the realm of tourism studies. In the new global business ecosystem where individuals, organizations, governments and economy work together as an integrated network, we need a new innovation model. The model should be set at a level in which internal, external, cooperative and co-creative ideas can converge to create organiza...

Dynamic Product-Service Business Ecosystems (DPSBEs) are collaborative forms that aim to handle product-service business actions in a business ecosystem by creating, sharing, using and reusing information across functional teams and enterprise boundaries. DPSBEs depend on the ability of their members’ information systems to interoperate. This ability is related to making their semantics explici...

New product development is indeed very important for companies. However, developing new products is a risky and uncertain process. In order to reduce the risks and uncertainties, companies need to evaluate their new product initiatives carefully and make accurate decisions. Although the outcome of a new product evaluation decision can be influenced by the environmental uncertainties that are be...

Leveraging hard solutions with business culture is an important but rarely discussed problem. The need to harmonize systems and cultures is well understood in Asia. Western researchers and managers tend to rely on reductionism and prefer to focus only those phenomena, that can be easily modeled in a quantitative manner. This paper presents initial results of an ongoing research project, which a...

As manufacturing organizations develop e-Business strategies, the product development process is also embracing electronic models where design chains, which are groups involved in sequences of related product design events, play critical roles in the overall Product Life Cycle. However, current distributed and electronic product design environments are not optimized for successful output based ...

While there is recognition that market-based capabilities contribute to a firm’s financial performance, the exposition is largely conceptual (Srivastava et al. Journal of Marketing 62:2–18, 1998; Journal of Marketing 63:168–179, 1999). Using a resource based view of the firm, the present study proposes that (1) market-based assets and capabilities of a firm impacts (2) performance in three mark...

Abstract There are a lot of risks in new product development projects. It’s very important to assess these risks accurately for the success of these projects. This paper proposed a risk assessment approach of NPD projects based on analytic network process (ANP) method. The effectiveness of the approach is tested by an actual NPD project. The results show that the approach can reflect the comple...

The paper describes the case of development of a rural technology product in a high-technology IT (information technology) environment. The product is a lowcost water filter for which there is a definite need in rural India. The case brings out how even a simplelooking concept for water filtration has to go through several well-defined steps for successful introduction into the field. These evo...