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Managing Communication in New Product Development Process : Virtual R&D Teams and Information Technology

Ale Ebrahim, Nader; Ahmed, Shamsuddin; Abdul Rashid, … - 2014

Literature proves the importance of the role of information technology in increasing the effectiveness of virtual R&D teams’ communication for new product development. However, the factors that make information technology construct in a virtual R&D team are still ambiguous. Managers of virtual...

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The Effectiveness of Virtual R&D Teams in SMEs : Experiences of Malaysian SMEs

Ale Ebrahim, Nader; Abdul Rashid, Salwa Hanim; Ahmed, … - 2011

the experts’ recommendations regarding the effectiveness of virtual teams for the growth and performance of SMEs. The …

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Envisages of New Product Developments in Small and Medium Enterprises Through Virtual Team

Ale Ebrahim, Nader; Ahmed, Shamsuddin; Taha, Zahari - 2013

New product development (NPD) in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) virtual team has not been systematically investigated in developing countries. Literatures have shown no significant differences between traditional NPD and virtual NPD in general. New product development especially for...

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SMEs and Virtual R&D Teams : A Motive Channel for Relationship between SMEs

Ale Ebrahim, Nader - 2013

This paper explores potential advantages and barriers of virtual teams toward making an interrelation between small and medium-sized firms (SMEs) with a comprehensive review on different aspects of virtual teams in SMEs based on authentic and reputed publications. The purpose of the...

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Effective Virtual Teams for New Product Development

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

At present, the existing literature shows that the factors which influence the effectiveness of virtual teams for new product development are still ambiguous. To address this problem, a research design was developed, which includes detailed literature review, preliminary model and field survey....

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The Biggest Experience to Reduce Environmental Pollutants by Substitute Fuel CNG in the Middle East & the Middle Asia

momeni, Ali - 2011

Automobile industry is an exhaustive industry bringing development for any country. The industrial capabilities needed for development rest in this branch of industry. The Iranian automobile making companies move in line with this aim. But in recent decades, in addition to development of...

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Virtual R&D Teams for NPD in SMEs : Past, Present and Future Trend

Ale Ebrahim, Nader - 2010

This paper provides a comprehensive review on different aspects of virtual teams based on authentic and reputed publications. The purpose of the state-of-the-art literature review is to provide an overview of what is known about the structure and dynamics of R&D collaboration in SMEs. SMEs are...

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Challenges and Trade-Offs in Corporate Innovation for Climate Change

Pinkse, Jonatan; Kolk, Ans - 2014

The international debate on addressing global climate change increasingly points at the role that companies can play by using their innovative capacity. However, up till now companies have been rather cautious in taking decisive steps in facilitating an innovation-based transition towards a...

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Competence Resource Specialization, Causal Ambiguity, and the Creation and Decay of Competitiveness : The Role of Marketing Strategy in New Product Performance and Shareholder Valu...

Hansen, Jared M.; McDonald, Bob; Mitchell, Ronald K. - 2012

lead to competitiveness and thus performance. However, competence causal ambiguity, which helps create competitiveness, is … also implicated in competitiveness decay. In this study we test a model of specialization-competitiveness-performance using … product performance, and an increased differential focus on marketing versus operations in the organization strengthens the …

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

Ale Ebrahim, Nader; Ahmed, Shamsuddin; Taha, Zahari - 2012

With the advent of the global economy and high-speed Internet, online collaboration is fast becoming the norm in education and industry [1]. Information technology (IT) creates many new inter-relationships among businesses, expands the scope of industries in which a company must compete to...

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