The Water Framework Directive (WFD) proscribes specific levels of contaminates present in rivers and lakes in the UK, these contaminants come from a wide range of sources such as food additives present in faeces, agricultural runoff and drinking water additives such as iron dosing. Water...

Within this paper we explore transition paths firms can take to become product service system (PSS) innovators. Applying the dynamic capability approach we study how three firms have developed PSS innovations in the mobility sector (Car2Go by Daimler AG, Connect by Hertz by The Hertz...

The UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) is focusing on and shiftingtoward a Network Enabled Capability (NEC) approach for improved militaryeffect. This is being realised through the physical networking and coherentintegration of existing and future resources including sensors, effectors,...

Performance improvement capability isrelated to an organization’s ability to utilize afundamental asset, the knowledge that resides with itsemployees, together with learning from past projectsand having good links to external knowledge sources.Firms that develop mechanisms to...

In the emergence of a pro-patent and intellectual capital era the management of Intellectual Property (IP) is currently undergoing major changes. IP management systems are becoming increasingly complex and strategic in handling an integrated portfolio of IPRs and intellectual assets rather than...

Based on the model of consumers' variety-seeking behavior introduced by Anderson et al. (1992), this paper derives a hedonic price function for a households' consumption bundle. The price a consumer pays for her consumption bundle reflects the values of the underlying attributes of goods...