Proposing a Tool for Supply Chain Configuration: An Application to Customised Production

The full implementation of collaborative production networks is crucial for companies willing to respond to consumer demand strongly focused on product customisation. This chapter proposes an approach to evaluate the performance of different Supply Chain (SC) configurations in a customised production context. The model is based on discrete-event simulation and is applied to the case of supply chain in the fashion sector to support the comparison between mass and customised production. A prototype web-based interface is also developed and proposed to facilitate the use of the model not only for experts in simulation but for any user in the SC management field

Forget R&D – pay my coach: young innovative companies and their relations with universities

32 p., 8 tables and referencesYoung innovative companies (YICs) are attracting attention in their role of industry regenerators. However, we have little information about their relations with universities as sources of information. This paper explores university-industry interaction involving YIC in the Valencian Community, using YIC founders’ personal attributes and motivations as explanatory variables. The Valencian Community has a relatively high degree of university-industry interaction, but surprisingly little technological innovation. A survey of YICs in the region shows that, in their case, firm size does not affect the probability of contracting with universities, and that R&D intensity is not significant if we consider firm founders’ personal characteristics and motivations. YIC founders exploiting market opportunities recognized in previous business activities, and necessity entrepreneurs, are the least likely to interact with universities. We highlight the role of external advisory services to highlight the benefits of universities.Peer reviewe

New Zealand’s perfect storm of entrepreneurship and economic development

Economic development, GEM, Global Entrepreneurship Monitor, Entrepreneurship, Grounded theory, L26, L53, O11, O56,

Assessing decision quality and team performance: Perspectives of knowledge internalization and resource adequacy

[[abstract]]Drawing upon resource-based view and social cognitive theory, this work develops a model that validates the formation of team decision quality and team performance. The model is empirically tested with data obtained from IT professionals across MIS work teams from Taiwan’s banking and insurance industry. The statistical results reveal that team performance is indirectly related to collective efficacy and participatory sense making via the full mediation of team decision quality, while collective efficacy and participatory sense making are directly related to knowledge internalization and resource adequacy. At the same time, the effect of participatory sense making on collective decision quality is negatively moderated by team hypercompetition. Finally, managerial implications and limitations based on the empirical findings are provided.[[notice]]補正完