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Innovation and R&D Activities in Virtual Team
Ebrahim, Nader Ale; Ahmed, Shamsuddin; Taha, Zahari - HAL - 2009
Innovation plays a central role in economic development, at the regional and national level. In the competitive … innovation and the strategic objectives that have been set, firms will regularly have to modify the way in which their R&D and … innovation are organized. Nowadays, shift from serial to simultaneous and parallel working in innovation has become more …
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Virtual Teams: a Literature Review
Ebrahim, Nader Ale; Ahmed, Shamsuddin; Taha, Zahari - HAL - 2009
In the competitive market , virtual teams represent a growing response to the need for fasting time-to- market, low-cost and rapid solutions to complex organizational problems. Virtual teams enable organizations to pool the talents and expertise of employees and non-employees by eliminating time...
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Virtual Team Collaboration: A Review of Literature and Perspectives
Karoui, Myriam; Gürkan, Ali; Dudezert, Aurélie - HAL - 2010
Along with the widespread use of information technologies (IT) and the increasing geographical span of tasks held by various organizations, Virtual Teams (VTs) rose as an alternative organizational form which has the potential to deeply change the workplace. This article provides a review of...
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The world upside down
Fabre, Guilhem; Grumbach, Stephane - HAL - 2012
R&D and innovation have become much more strategic than ever before for the growth of China as well as for its global … societal upgrade. The Chinese authorities have designed an innovation strategy to face new economic and social challenges. The …
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Industrial Energy from Water-Mills in the European Economy, Fifth to Eighteenth Centuries: the Limitations of Power
Munro, John - University of Toronto, Department of Economics - 2001
The water-mill, though known in the Roman Empire from the second century BCE, did not come to enjoy any widespread use until the 4 th or 5 th centuries CE, and then chiefly in the West, which was then experiencing not only a rapid decline in the supply of slaves, but also widespread...
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Management Matters
Alexopoulos, Michelle; Tombe, Trevor - University of Toronto, Department of Economics - 2010
New indications of managerial innovations are created and then used to show that changes in organizational technologies are an important source of economic growth. Specifically, the analysis demonstrates that, first, in response to a positive managerial technology shock, output, productivity and...
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Virtual Teams and Management Challenges
Ebrahim, Nader Ale; Ahmed, Shamsuddin; Taha, Zahari - HAL - 2011
Introduction: Collaboration is becoming increasingly important in creating the knowledge that makes business more competitive. Virtual teams are growing in popularity [1] and many organizations have responded to their dynamic environments by introducing virtual teams. Additionally, the rapid...
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Process Construct in the Virtual R&D Teams
Ebrahim, Nader Ale; Ahmed, Shamsuddin; Rashid, Salwa … - HAL - 2012
literature proves the importance of the process role in the effectiveness of virtual research and development (R&D) teams for new product development (NPD). However, the factors that make process construct in a virtual R&D team are still unclear. The manager of virtual R&D teams for NPD does not...
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Cost optimisation in freight distribution with cross-docking: the N-echelon location routing problem
Gonzalez-Feliu, Jesus - HAL - 2010
Freight transportation constitutes one of the main activities that influences economy and society, as it assures a vital link between suppliers and customers and it represents a major source of employment. Multi-echelon distribution is one of the most common strategies adopted by the...
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The importance of design for firms' competitiveness: a review of the literature
D'Ippolito, Beatrice - HAL - 2014
products, firms' understanding and formulation of strategy, or other relevant actors' approach to innovation and technology …
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