Building dynamic capabilities in product development: the role of knowledge management

This paper contributes to the clarification of the connections between knowledge management and dynamic capabilities in the context of product development to see how they explain product development competences. Building on the knowledge management and dynamic capabilities literatures, the paper argues that the social side of knowledge management has a role to play as enabler of dynamic capabilities in the context of product development. Further, dynamic capabilities shape product development competences. Empirical evidence is provided by performing survey research with data collected from 80 product development projects developed in Spain.Capabilities , Knowledge management, Organizational knowledge

Organizational evolution and semiotics in complex environments: the case of the aerial safety

The effort in advanced information system that many organizations have achieved to improve performance under foreseeable situations has increased organizational complexity decreasing the capacity to deal with unforeseen situations. At this respect, our research question is: what is the limit for this model of development? Once reached, what are the alternatives to improve? An explanation can be organized around semiotic. To do this, the aerial safety learning model and its collateral effects will be analyzed.Air safety, Complex environments, Organizational evolution, Semiotics, Sense

Responsabilidad del empresario en el nuevo Código Penal

El nuevo código penal de 1995 amplia de forma importante el ámbito de los delitos económicos, amén de introducir importantes novedades en los ya existentes. Por ejemplo, la introducción de los delitos contra el orden socioeconómico (delitos societarios, delitos relativos al mercado y consumidores), de los delitos relativos a la ordenación del territorio y la protección del patrimonio histórico, y del medio ambiente, de los delitos relativos a la energía nuclear y a las radiaciones ionizantes.The new Penal Code of 1995 wides the field of economic crime, in addition introduces importants changes in previous one. For example, the introduction of offenses against the socioeconomic order (corporate offenses, offenses relating to the market and consumers), offenses relating to land use and protection of historic heritage, and the environment, offenses relating to nuclear energy and ionizing radiation.notPeerReviewe

Analysis and Quality Control from ARIMA Modeling

In this paper, we use ARIMA modelling to estimate a set of characteristics of a short-term indicator (for example, the index of industrial production), as trends, seasonal variations, cyclical oscillations, unpredictability, deterministic effects (as a strike), etc. Thus for each sector and product (more than 1000), we construct a vector of values corresponding to the above-mentioned characteristics, that can be used for data editing

Many-to-one Matching When Colleagues Matter

This paper studies many-to-one matching markets in which each agent’s preferences not only depend on the institution that hires her, but also on the group of her colleagues, which are matched to the same institution. With an unrestricted domain of preferences the non-emptiness of the core is not guaranteed. We present some conditions on agents’ preferences which determine two possible situations. In both situations, at least one stable allocation exists. The first one reflects real-life situations in which the agents are more worried about an acceptable set of colleagues than the firm hiring them. The second one refers to markets in which a workers’ ranking is accepted by workers and firms in that market.many-to-one matching, hedonic coalitions, stability.

Characterization of production in different branches of production in different branches spanish industrial activity, by means of time series analysis.

This work presents a quantitative study of the evolution of spanish industrial activity, measured by the indices of industrial production, by means of Time Series analysis. Univariate ARIMA models with intervention analysis for all the series of these indices have been constructed. The use of Univariate Time Series models to characterise economic phenomena is justified and the type of characterisation made for each industrial branch is described. The procedures for automatic modelling of series are presented. Then the characteristics of the Spanish industrial branches are shown. These results are collected in a diskette for use of researchers.ARIMA model; Intervention analysis; Univariate model; Industrial production; automatic modelling;

Economic Efficiency and Growth: Evidence from Brazil, China, and India

We compare economic efficiencies in Brazil, India, and China, where economic efficiency measures the gap between potential and actual output for a given input combination and technological factor. We use stochastic production frontier models to measure the contributions of factors of production and technology to growth and estimate non-positive error terms that capture production inefficiencies in each country. The results suggest that China and India had relatively inefficient production in the early 1980s but have since improved production efficiency substantially. In the same period, production efficiency in Brazil has declined somewhat from relatively high initial levels and the gap between production efficiency between these countries has narrowed substantially, supporting more rapid growth in China and India relative to Brazil.growth, trade, production

Antecedents and consequences of knowledge integration in product development. An empirical evidence

The purpose of this paper is to explain product development performance through the link between knowledge management and knowledge integration. When product development teams integrate knowledge about two external entities -customers and suppliers, they acquire a better understanding of the market and of each other´s needs and capabilities, which enables them to operate and innovate better than their competitors. In this context, our theoretical framework focuses on the social enablers usually associated to knowledge management, and combine them with knowledge integration as to determine product development performance.