Purpose – IThe purpose of this paper is to focus on manufacturers and suppliers who engage in strategic relationships for quality improvement and new product development. Depending on the balance of bargaining power in the relationship, each partner's resource commitment to the activities such...

Without effective performance evaluation, R&D organizations will find it hard to motivate their R&D scientists and engineers: 'How should R&D managers design the performance measurement system most suitable to their own organization?' is a critical question. Based on a large-scale survey...

In order to enhance R&D performance, R&D managers make sure that R&D personnel are satisfied with their compensation, both economic and non-economic. An R&D compensation scheme would consist of many complex factors. In this research, we focus on "compensation composition" as such a factor for...