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Small and medium-sized enterprises ("SMEs") around the world are attracting attention as sources of employment and economic growth because, amid the economic downturn after the recession stemming from the financial crisis of 2008, SMEs - medium-sized companies in particular-revealed their resistance to economic shocks. Among SMEs, there is a group of companies that has maintained the top...
Globalization of software work has become common in today's market. As part of cost-reduction strategies, many product-focused software companies started shipping their product development to insourcing and outsourcing offshore locations. Unfortunately, moving software products from one site to another isn't always a good business strategy for either the organization or the product. In this article,...
Globalization has significantly changed the way the market operates today. In particular, it motivated many software companies expand through acquisitions and utilize skillful resources regardless of their location around the globe. Global software engineering endeavors have been widely explored in the research literature for the past decade and associated with many challenges caused by geographic,...
Globalization leads to the movement of companies towards international cooperation in manufacturing. Manufacturing strategy (MS) is one of the most important issues for manufacturing companies to secure sustainable advantage. It is imperative for companies to understand the manufacturing strategy of their international cooperators to ensure cooperation success. In the last decades, more and more Sino-German...
Due to globalization, rapid technological changes, keen competition and segmentation of market made PLM (product life cycle management) the most critical issue to hi-tech industries. Among them, such as information technology, semiconductor, photo-electronics and aerospace industries and they are sensitive to price-setting in corresponding to stages transition to lead to a precise control over PLM...
In response to recommendations provided by the Danish government, in order to meet the challenges we are facing in our globalized world, we have recently redesigned one of our courses in the global business engineering program. We are striving to make innovation as a topic even more relevant by studying how companies can innovate that are above and beyond traditional product development. This broader...
Strategic outsourcing prevails over the open market after globalization. Companies strategically outsource suppliers who have distinctive advantage to enhance their business values. This paper aims to examine the target costing practice in outsourcing partners from organizational and technique perspectives and to find out causes for dissimilarity of brand-lead target cost system differ among outsourcing...
The authors are developing a course on socially conscience innovation. The purpose of the course is to teach students to identify and evaluate opportunities for new and innovative products. The course will be divided into five modules. Each module will begin with the students selecting an academic article read and summarize for the class. The first module will cover foundation topics. The following...
The survivability of small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) has been debated heavily for past decades. Several growth theories have been introduced in attempts to guide SMEs towards achieving their goals. Globalization has rendered these theories moot, as they lack to reflect upon todaypsilas developments in innovation. We propose SMEs to ldquoleadrdquo innovation, i.e. innovation leadership,...
Since the changing business environment due to globalization, conventional process of new product development (NPD) is no more sufficient for an enterprise to ensure its original market competitiveness. Traditional strategy of NPD, which largely depends on inventory levels and market analysis, may results in ignoring factors in a supply chain. In particular, members of the business alliance require...
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