In high diversity, Just In Time production environments, mixed-model assembly lines aim at producing a large amount of end products that use alternative variants of components used in the assembly process. Therefore, the availability of parts required at the border of the assembly line is...

Amongst the collaborative consumptions arising nowadays, sharing is one of the most widespread systems. Sharing traditionally owned objects such as cars has certainly affected the consumer-possessions relationship. This paper shows the role of design in both identity and brand community...

L'automobile a conquis le monde. Instrument de liberté, pourvoyeur d'emplois et de croissance, objet souvent statutaire, l'automobile traverse une crise en Europe notamment. Son succès est désormais planétaire mais quel est son avenir ? Sera-t-elle demain aussi désirée qu'hier ? Pour...

A radical innovation of business model changes the way organizations create value for their customers and implement it. The interplay between internal and external factors will induce the innovation’s success or failure. This article underscores the importance of organizational identity in the...

With the end of the Cold War, U.S. defence systems integrators have refocused on the core of their business, military or governmental. Boeing has been the only integrator that has maintained a dual civil-military business and that has even managed to build on this duality. The article uses the...

Based on evolutionist theories and project management knowledge, a connectionist model based on genetic algorithm is built to simulate innovation process in organizations. Transformation and selection produce micro dynamics to create macro behavior in the agents' population. Results clarify...

We can assume that for several years, online business-to-business relations have played a key part in the way firms organise their business and their relational networks. The main issue has been the emergence of new intermediaries which reorganise business and management process throughout the...