Despite the huge potential on both the demand and supply sides of the ÎukËk market, the current ÎukËk structures fall short of adequately meeting the market’s needs as the SharÊ’ah compliance of many of them and/or their economic efficiency are questionable. Even though...

To overcome the global economy crisis, industries must take a revolutionary step and look for modern technologies. A computer modeling and simulation process has brought about dramatic innovation in the field of engineering. In the process of product design and performance verification, computer...

Market position and long-term competitive advantages are dependent on companies’ ability to innovate and their capacity to launch new product or services. This paper aims to highlight the features of product development processes in business to business markets. The research method consisted...

Purpose – Despite the growing pressure to encourage new ways of thinking about research methodology, only recently have interview methodologists begun to realize that “we cannot lift the results of interviewing out of the contexts in which they were gathered and claim them as objective data...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the ways in which management control is enacted in a product development setting, to provide new insights into the different roles that control can play in this context. Design/methodology/approach – A nine-month, in-depth field study was...

This paper proposes and empirically investigates two strategies that companies can employ to involve indirect suppliers in new product development (NPD): supply network delegation; and supply network intervention. The implications of the two strategies are explored. The paper brings together the...

Purpose – This study purports to examine the effects of a joint reward system (JRS) under a new product development (NPD) setting by identifying four neglected aspects of JRS that contains a procedural view (participation of reward decision and reward contingent on NPD phases) and a monetary...

This paper addresses the challenge of striking a balance between, on one hand, mitigating uncertainty through the existence of systematic processes and structures and, on the other, stimulating creativity through allowable variation in work processes and structures. Both objectives are...

Consumers often choose products by first forming a consideration set and then choosing from among considered products. When there are many products to screen (or many features to evaluate), it is rational for consumers to use consider-then-choose decision processes and to do so with heuristic...

This paper is a modified version of an academic study conducted as part of a post graduate dissertation in Management during 2010. The researchers attempted to explore the potential of the tourism sector in Bahrain and to evaluate the feasibility of developing a new tourism product in the...