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Managing Supplier Involvement in New Product Development: A Multiple-Case Study
van Echtelt, van Echtelt, F.E.A.; Wynstra, Wynstra, J.Y.F. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2006
Existing studies of supplier involvement in new product development have mainly focused on project-related short-term processes and success-factors. This study validates and extends an existing exploratory framework, which comprises both long-term strategic processes and short-term operational...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010731097
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Ergonomics Contributions to Company Strategies
Dul, Jan; Neumann, Neumann, W.P. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2008
Managers usually associate ergonomics with occupational health and safety and related legislation, not with business performance. In many companies, these decision makers seem not to be positively motivated to apply ergonomics for reasons of improving health and safety. In order to strengthen...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010731140
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Can the Office Environment Stimulate a Manager’s Creativity?
Dul, Jan; Ceylan, Ceylan, C.; Aytac, Aytac, S. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2008
to an organization’s innovation. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010730933
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Currents and Sub-currents in the River of Innovations - Explaining Innovativeness using New-Product Announcements
Dolfsma, Wilfred; van der Panne, G. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2006
In their seminal paper, Acs and Audretsch (1988) analyze innovation patterns across industries and identify several … innovation; industries characterized by increased shares of skilled labor and large firms provide favorable conditions for … innovation. By analyzing a new and more consciously compiled database, we re-examine their original claims. Our results largely …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010731228
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Strategic and Operational Management of Supplier Involvement in New Product Development: a Contingency Perspective
van Echtelt, van Echtelt, F.E.A.; Wynstra, Wynstra, J.Y.F. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2007
This paper examines how firms succeed to leverage supplier involvement in product development. The paper extends earlier work on managing supplier involvement by providing an integrated analysis of results, processes and conditions both at the level of individual development projects and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010731502
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Human Factors: Spanning the Gap between OM & HRM
Dul, Jan; Neumann, Neumann, W.P. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2010
Purpose: This paper examines the claim that the application of human factors (HF) knowledge can improve both human well-being and operations system performance. Methodology: A systematic review was conducted using a general and two specialist databases to identify empirical studies addressing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010731109
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Reverse Logistics – Capturing Value in the Extended Supply Chain
Fleischmann, Moritz; van Nunen, van Nunen, J.A.E.E.; … - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2004
Product flows in today’s supply chains do not end once they have reached the customer. Many products lead a second and even third or fourth life after having accomplished their original task at their first customer. Consequently, a product may generate revenues multiple times, rather than a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011204319
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A Stochastic Dynamic Programming Approach to Revenue Management in a Make-to-Stock Production System
Fleischmann, Moritz; Quante, Quante, R.; Meyr, Meyr, H. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2009
In this paper, we consider a make-to-stock production system with known exogenous replenishments and multiple customer classes. The objective is to maximize profit over the planning horizon by deciding whether to accept or reject a given order, in anticipation of more profitable future orders....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011204322
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On the Suboptimality of Full Turnover-Based Storage
Yu, Yu, Y.; de Koster, de Koster, M.B.M. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2009
In the past thirty years the full turnover-based storage policy as described by Hausman et al. (1976, Management Science 22(6)) has been widely claimed to outperform the commonly used ABC class-based storage policy, in terms of the resulting average storage and retrieval machine travel time. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010730894
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An NPV and AC Analysis of a Stochastic Inventory System with Joint Manufacturing and Remanufacturing
van der Laan, Erwin - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2000
While the net present value (NPV) approach is widely accepted as the right framework for studying production and inventory control systems, average cost (AC) models are more widely used. For the well known EOQ model it can be veri_ed that (under certain conditions) the AC approach gives near...
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