Several shortcomings of traditional innovation diffusion research create major impediments to the ‘holistic’ understanding of diffusion of innovations as well as to the development of effective strategies of policy intervention to facilitate diffusion process. Among the major...

In the recent times, India has emerged as one of the fastest growing telecom markets in the world and witnessed a telecommunication revolution brought about by a collaboration of government, industry, and the scientific community. It has truly been a success story of indigenous technology...

This paper shows the utility of systems approach by extending the traditional innovation models and incorporating and integrating into them selective critical structural variables to map their interaction and explain the inherent dynamism. Conventionally, the approaches in explaining the...

Melbourne Pathology, a subsidiary of Sonic Health Care, provided a comprehensive range of pathology services as an aid in the diagnosis and treatment of patients in Melbourne and Central Victoria. In a capped funding and highly regulated market such as the pathology service market in Australia,...

In this paper, we consider a generic product line design and positioning problem in the context of variety creation using a core product and add-on services. While the functional output of the core product is identical across the products, product variety is created using add-on services that do...

Stability is essential for long term sustainability of supply chain networks. The literature on supply chain coordination focuses on enhancing network efficiency, and stability issues are largely unexplored. In this paper, we consider a two-tier supply chain network with a marketing agent...