{"title":"A Practical Model to Plan Growth","authors":"A. Fernandes","doi":"10.1109/IEMC.2006.4279916","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IEMC.2006.4279916","url":null,"abstract":"An economic model is described that helps to understand a firm's economic growth. The supporting theory states that the balance between value added and value distributed to labor is the main key to plan growth. The ratio between those two types of value is the knowledge productivity. This factor needs to increase in order to have competitive growth. The paper describes five modeled situations. In addition, a real case of a macro scenario shows approximately the same conclusion as the model.","PeriodicalId":153115,"journal":{"name":"2006 IEEE International Engineering Management Conference","volume":"87 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123117850","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Managing the Sources of Uncertainty in Technology Projects","authors":"T. Skelton, H. Thamhain","doi":"10.1109/IEMC.2006.4279912","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IEMC.2006.4279912","url":null,"abstract":"A three-year field study into the management practices and business processes of enterprise risk management (ERM) examines the organizational processes and stakeholder interactions of identifying and managing risks early in the project lifecycle and dealing with these risks in an integrated trans-functional way. The results from this field study show that effective risk management involves a complex set of variables related to task, people, and organizational environment. The study provides insight into the type of organizational environment and managerial leadership conducive to identifying and eliminating potential risks by redesigning organizational processes and the project work, and by dealing effectively with the complex social, technical and economic issues that determine the culture and value system of the enterprise.","PeriodicalId":153115,"journal":{"name":"2006 IEEE International Engineering Management Conference","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127778695","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Examining the Network Competence - Innovation Success Relationship and Its Moderating Influence: An Empirical Study in China","authors":"Jinfa Xu, Xueguang Chen, Xuefeng Liu","doi":"10.1109/IEMC.2006.4279838","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IEMC.2006.4279838","url":null,"abstract":"With the development of economic globalization, more and more Chinese firms have recognized the importance of establishing and utilizing relationships with outside organizations under the circumstance of network competition. While, how and why are firms able to set up and use these relationships to cultivate their competitive advantage and make them a good development? We use the concept of network competence, a kind of capability about developing and managing outside network relationships, to search the reason. Through an empirical analysis on the firms in Zhejiang, an east province of China, we find that network competence has a strong positive influence on a firm's product and process innovation success, which are key aspects of cultivating firm's competitive advantage. In addition, market turbulence, technological turbulence, and competitive intensity, the three environmental variables, having a moderating influence on the relationship between network competence and innovation success is identified too.","PeriodicalId":153115,"journal":{"name":"2006 IEEE International Engineering Management Conference","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126065041","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Towards some theory of technology orphaning: A retrospective exploratory study","authors":"P. A. Barbonis","doi":"10.1109/IEMC.2006.4279911","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IEMC.2006.4279911","url":null,"abstract":"This is a theoretical and quasi-empirical study of a generally obscure phenomenon called technology orphaning. Whilst much has been written on technology and innovation and their adoption and diffusion, scarcely any attention has been paid to technology orphans, which when permanently lost, is a loss to firms, countries and humanity in general. A number of propositions are derived and discussed. Careful management of technology can reduce the number of orphan technologies, which are technologies not available commercially or not commercialized at all, for a variety of reasons. The limitations of the work are discussed, and suggestions made for future work.","PeriodicalId":153115,"journal":{"name":"2006 IEEE International Engineering Management Conference","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126616299","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Factors of Knowledge Transfer in Global Production Network: In View of a Developing Country","authors":"Xiaobo Wu, Guannan Xu, Zhen Pei","doi":"10.1109/IEMC.2006.4279848","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IEMC.2006.4279848","url":null,"abstract":"At present, global production network (GPN) has become one of the new figures of the globalization tide. It opens an opportunity window for developing countries to learn from GPN. The paper proposes a 2-stage model describing the factors of knowledge transfer from global production flagships (GPF) to its participants in developing countries. In the first stage, there are two factors affecting the extent of knowledge from GPF to its participants: transfer activities and relationship between the two parties. In the second stage, knowledge from GPF, relative absorptive capacity and absorptive capacity of the local firm are considered as the three main factors affecting the efficiency of knowledge transfer. To test the model, we survey 105 manufacturing firms in China via questionnaires. Further, how the form to participate in GPN influences knowledge transfer is also examined.","PeriodicalId":153115,"journal":{"name":"2006 IEEE International Engineering Management Conference","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129445311","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Human Side of Globalisation","authors":"N. K. Kumar, S. Kumar","doi":"10.1109/IEMC.2006.4279804","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IEMC.2006.4279804","url":null,"abstract":"The advent of globalisation has led to a phenomenon in which economies of nations are increasingly interlinked due to offshoring/outsourcing. Given changed and altered paradigms and the advent of the WTO regime, we have attempted to understand the underlying factors and the effect of globalisation on people from East Asia to Latin America.","PeriodicalId":153115,"journal":{"name":"2006 IEEE International Engineering Management Conference","volume":"1990 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131110514","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Modeling the Performance in Chinese Engineering Managers","authors":"X.J. Chen, J.P. Zhu, X. Xie, Z. Lin","doi":"10.1109/IEMC.2006.4279821","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IEMC.2006.4279821","url":null,"abstract":"One of the trends in performance appraisal is about modeling the work behaviors, and considerable researches show behavior process is an important factor contributing to the employee's total performance. Based on the contextual and task performance construct, we conduct a field research in Chinese engineering managers. The result shows the performance model consists of 3 dimensions: personal motivation, organizing task and behavior performance, and managers perform better in organizing task than in other two dimensions. At last, we discuss some implications for practice.","PeriodicalId":153115,"journal":{"name":"2006 IEEE International Engineering Management Conference","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122941064","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
L. Molinaro, H. Abdalla, D. F. Garrossini, C. Arakaki
{"title":"Management Methodology Applied to Web Courses Production","authors":"L. Molinaro, H. Abdalla, D. F. Garrossini, C. Arakaki","doi":"10.1109/IEMC.2006.4279820","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IEMC.2006.4279820","url":null,"abstract":"The goal of this work is to offer a methodology to produce on-line courses on the Web, allowing an improvement on the creation process. This proposal is based on practical experiences conducted at NMI and theoretically on three main aspects: the chosen method on content creation, the way how will this production be structured -shall be defined as the product lifecycle, and how to manage it, employing in this case the concepts of project management.To understand this proposal, the associated subject are: e-learning, instructional models for course construction, project management and creation of digital content. Finally a methodology of this proposal is showed in order to create Web courses, in addition to a case of study illustrating its utility.","PeriodicalId":153115,"journal":{"name":"2006 IEEE International Engineering Management Conference","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133867363","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Evaluation of a new complex system design method on a mechatronic automotive product","authors":"J. Sitte, P. Winzer","doi":"10.1109/IEMC.2006.4279866","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IEMC.2006.4279866","url":null,"abstract":"This paper illustrates the application of the demand compliant design (DeCoDe) method, proposed recently by the authors, to a real design problem faced by a supplier to the automotive industry. The design flow of the method is detailed and the main advantages and disadvantages are pointed out. The application of the method resulted in a highly innovative design in very short time while guaranteeing the traceability of the design as required by product liability requirements.","PeriodicalId":153115,"journal":{"name":"2006 IEEE International Engineering Management Conference","volume":"95 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116153799","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}