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The Alignment of Partnering Strategy, Governance and Management in R&D Projects: The Role of Contract Choice
MacCormack, Alan; Mishra, Anant - 2010
hypotheses that examine first, how a firm’s choice of contract—whether fixed price, time & materials, or performance …-based—is shaped by its partnering strategy; and second, how this choice subsequently affects the levels of partner integration and … partner performance observed in a project. Our results indicate that the choice of contract is a function of a firm …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009432717
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A collaboration leading to the introduction of an innovative medical device to the international market
Walsh, Ian; Clement, Marc - 2000
. Collaboration with an academic institution can assist in overcoming this dilemma. This process is not without its difficulties and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009461252
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Balancing the scales: Data on electricity supply and demand resources
Hirst, E. - 2008
In the energy arena, the greatest data needs concern the costs and performance of demand-side management (DSM) programs … utilities, and energy-efficiency and load-management programs, the need will increase for comprehensive and accurate information … between the information available on these two types of resources. 49 refs., 15 figs., 11 tabs. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009435623
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Knowledge worker #3
Drucker, Peter F. (Peter Ferdinand)
Peter Drucker lectures about the knowledge worker. During his talk, he discusses: supply as the center of today’s corporation, the change in structure and character of the workforce, the main function of a job, work as portable and specialized, the importance of making oneself understood and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009429638
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Six Sigma Programs: An Implementation Model
Chakravorty, Satya S. - 2009
Despite the pervasiveness of Six Sigma program implementations, there is increasing concern about implementation failures. One reason many Six Sigma programs fail is because an implementation model on how to effectively guide the implementation of these programs is lacking. Using a successful...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009458994
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Mother's income and child mortality in southern Nigeria
Sulaiman, Ismaila Lawal - 1987
Material resources affect the levels of mortality. In cross-sectional relationships income has been found to be positively associated with survival, both within and between countries. Preston (1975, 1976), in particular, using cross-national data for three separate decades of the 20th century,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009438517
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Increasing quality in measuring advertising effectiveness: A meta-analysis of question framing in conversion studies
Woodside, Arch; Dubelaar, Chris - 2003
requests for information about a given brand is likely to reduce interest in responding among nonbuyers of the stated brand and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009441649
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Acuity and case management: a healthy dose of outcomes, part III
Huber, Diane L.; Craig, K. - 2007
practical applications. PRIMARY PRACTICE SETTING(S): The information contained in the 3-part series applies to all CM practice …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009466078
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Exploring perceptions of "foreignness" in virtual teams: The impact on member satisfaction and turnover intention
Garrison, Gary; Harvey, Michael G.; Moeller, Miriam - 2009
This paper uses status inconsistency theory to identify factors related to satisfaction with the composition of virtual teams to predict turnover intentions. The paradox that increasing diversity maximizes the creation and use of organizational knowledge while increasing dissatisfaction and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009441741
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Creating Effective Global Virtual Teams: A Transactive Memory Perspective.
Oguntebi, Joy O. - 2009
organizational work. A consistent finding in the TMS literature is that the development of a TMS leads to improved team performance … in transactive memory system emergence within our student-teams and industry cases. These enablers are: communication … explores the relationship between 1) the group process enablers and TMS, 2) the group process enablers and team performance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009476580