Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate effects of platforms on new product development (NPD) projects. Emphasis has been put on the following effect categories: project performance, process changes, and the use of performance measurements. Design/methodology/approach – The...

We reformulate the conditions of Blanke and Bosq (1997) for achieving the (log T)/T-rate of convergence of the kernel density estimator for a smooth process and give under slightly stronger assumptions the exact asymptotic form of the variance giving an expression for the asymptotic optimal...