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Virtual R&D Teams and SMEs Growth : A Comparative Study Between Iranian and Malaysian SMEs

Ale Ebrahim, Nader; Ahmed, Shamsuddin; Taha, Zahari - 2014

This paper explores potential advantages of using virtual teams for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) with a … to study the aspects by online survey method in Iran and Malaysia. In both countries, SMEs play an important role in … their economies, employments, and capacity building. Virtual R&D team can be one of the means to increase SMEs efficiency …

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New Product Development in Virtual Environment

Ale Ebrahim, Nader; Ahmed, Shamsuddin; Taha, Zahari - 2014

Purpose - The literature on the topic has evolved exponentially since eight years ago. Relaying on a review of studies published in recent years, this article proposes and discusses a framework which incorporates a set of virtual teams involved in a new product development initiative....

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Virtual R&D Teams : A Potential Growth of Education-Industry Collaboration

Ale Ebrahim, Nader; Ahmed, Shamsuddin; Abdul Rashid, … - 2013

-sized enterprises (SMEs) and draws conclusions, giving special attention to the structure of virtual teams required to support education … to use virtual teams for collaboration and the platform for industry-education collaboration is ready and distance …-industry collaboration. We report the relevant results of an online survey study. The online questionnaire was emailed by using a simple …

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Virtual R&D teams and SMEs growth: A comparative study between Iranian and Malaysian SMEs

Ale Ebrahim, Nader; Ahmed, Shamsuddin; Taha, Zahari - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

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Virtual R&D Teams in Small and Medium Enterprises : A Literature Review

Ale Ebrahim, Nader; Ahmed, Shamsuddin; Taha, Zahari - 2014

collaboration in SMEs. Specifying the foundation and importance of virtual teams, the relationship between virtual R & D team and …Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are the driving engine behind economic growth. While SMEs play a critical role in … development (R & D) aspect deserves particular attention to promote and facilitate the operations of SMEs. Virtual R & D team …

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Virtual R&D Teams : A Sustainable Infrastructure for Promoting SMEs

Ale Ebrahim, Nader - 2013

Small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) are a major part of the industrial economies. Their survival and growth has … competition. To survive in the global economy SMEs have to improve their products and processes exploiting their intellectual … capital in a dynamic network of knowledge-intensive relations inside and outside their borders. SMEs need to focus on core …

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Virtual R&D Teams : Innovation and Technology Facilitator

Ale Ebrahim, Nader; Ahmed, Shamsuddin; Taha, Zahari - 2014

Innovation is becoming the most important key issue for company’s success in the 21st century. In the competitive environment is necessary for the enterprises to put together different capabilities and services with the goal. It’s a widely accepted that innovation is better achieved by...

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Literature, Principle and the Basics of Network Value Creation in R&D : The Relationship with Economy

Ale Ebrahim, Nader; Ahmed, Shamsuddin; Taha, Zahari - 2011

The internationalization of R&D network is a recent phenomenon. In this knowledge based environment, the driving forces for this phenomenon are digitization, the internet, and high-speed data networks that are keys to address many of the operational issues from design to logistics and...

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Consideration of the Virtual Team Work and Disabled Citizens, as Promising Opportunity Providers for the E-Government Infrastructure's Formation

Shafia, Mohammad Ali; Ale Ebrahim, Nader; Ahmed, Shamsuddin - 2014

The Information area has revolutionized the workplace. Douglas Kruse, a professor of human resources and the director of the program for disability research at Rutgers University, states that 7% of employed persons with disabilities work 20 hours or more a week from home. While some modern...

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Virtual Teams : A New Opportunity to Develop a Business

Ale Ebrahim, Nader; Ahmed, Shamsuddin; Abdul Rashid, … - 2013

emailed by using a simple random sampling method to 356 Malaysian manufacturing small and medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs). The … findings of this study show that SMEs in Malaysia are gaining to use virtual teams, and it can be concluded that virtual teams … provide a new platform for developing the business in SMEs. Based on the study, we suggest avenues for future research that …

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