This paper reports on the relationships between facets of integrated manufacturing–
consisting of total quality management, just in time and advanced manufacturing technology …

Insight gained in the previous two chapters, on state-of-the-art literature and state-of-the-art
practice, delivered an answer to the question asking for requirements that determine …

Industry life-cycle theory is interested in changes in key industry variables, including entry
and exit rates, firm numbers, price, performance and concentration, and in innovative activity …

Patent litigation is a visible and widespread feature of the semiconductor industry, as firms
pursue judicial mechanisms to defend, or promote, their intellectual property portfolios. This …

This research focuses on the mobile internet. Japan was successful with its mobile internet
launch already in 1999. The West has struggled and has been unable to follow Japan‟ s …

Technological progress in semiconductor chips plays a central role in enabling the
Information Technology revolution. Continual technological progress in semiconductor …

In this paper the focus is on the strategy formulation processes, specifically supportive
methods and structures, which address various managerial issues concerning …

The work of this paper centres on a study of business organisations of the former German
Democratic Republic (GDR), whose continued existence after the reunification of Germany …

It is possible to characterize the different stages of history according the type of technology
available. The last fifty years of human history have been referred to as" The Information …

There is a great variety of terms used to describe the phenomenon of technological
discontinuity and radical innovation (Green et al., 1995: 203; Garcia and Roger, 2002: 110) …