{"title":"A systems thinking approach to manage distribution channels in the Control and Instrumentation product market with multi-faceted product lines","authors":"H. G. Dirker, Leon Pretorius, J. Pretorius","doi":"10.1109/ICMIT.2008.4654574","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMIT.2008.4654574","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of this paper is to explore from a systems thinking approach ways in which to model and manage distribution channels in the Control and Instrumentation product market where multi-faceted product lines, technological know-how and the position of the product in its life-cycle play important roles in the manner in which these products are diffused into the market. The focus in this paper is more the South African market although the global context for control and instrumentation products is also considered. The research is exploratory in nature addressing the complexity from a value chain point of view intertwined with product technology. Aims of the paper include the following: to assess if driving factors identified by way of preliminary research case studies and inductive reasoning are realistic and how the identified factors could be used within a soft systems methodology approach to understand the value additions per distribution channel for the various types of product lines.","PeriodicalId":332967,"journal":{"name":"2008 4th IEEE International Conference on Management of Innovation and Technology","volume":"145 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-10-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133698216","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":"The study of the application of the Grey relation analysis on key competencies of middle-level managers in medical industries","authors":"C. Fang, S. Chang, G.L. Chen","doi":"10.1109/ICMIT.2008.4654376","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMIT.2008.4654376","url":null,"abstract":"This study provides highly practical valuable research work for helping academic and industrial world to understand the key competencies items of managers in Taiwan medical industries. It intends to take talented persons in Taiwan medical industries as research objects. It also probes into important and pivotal competencies items of managers in medical industries. This study conducts a research on middle-level managerspsila key competencies in medical industry by means of Grey relation analysis (GRA). The results indicate that personal quality is the most key competencies in five major competencies of middle managers, while the active attitude is the most important in the quality.","PeriodicalId":332967,"journal":{"name":"2008 4th IEEE International Conference on Management of Innovation and Technology","volume":"239 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-10-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121398627","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":"Meta-analysis of the relationship between product innovation and business performance","authors":"Yonggui Wang, Shanji Yao, Zhuo Sun, H. Jia","doi":"10.1109/ICMIT.2008.4654487","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMIT.2008.4654487","url":null,"abstract":"Nowadays, conflicting research findings have been concluded on the relationship between product innovation and business performance. To deep the understanding of the relationship between the two variables and resolve such inconsistent findings mentioned above, this paper uses meta-analysis which has received more and more attention in the field of management research to further analyze related studies quantitatively and comprehensively. In the process of meta-analysis, this paper synthesizes samples as many as possible, and conducts a systematic review and deep analysis of extant literatures on product innovation and its influence on business performance. Specially, the current research not only includes homogeneity test on extant studies, but also contains meta-analysis on the relationship between product innovation and business performance. Besides, this paper uses funnel plot and Egger test to analyze publication bias. Based on the results from meta-analysis, a positive and significant relationship between product innovation and business performance is found, which is followed by managerial implications, limitations, and future research directions.","PeriodicalId":332967,"journal":{"name":"2008 4th IEEE International Conference on Management of Innovation and Technology","volume":"108 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-10-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128921550","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":"R&D inputs, firm size and innovation performance: Evidence from Chinese high-tech industry","authors":"N. Cai, Meng Xu","doi":"10.1109/ICMIT.2008.4654507","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMIT.2008.4654507","url":null,"abstract":"This paper investigates the influence of R&D inputs on the innovation efficiency of Chinese high-tech industry from two aspects, including product-related innovation and knowledge-related innovation. We also test whether or not the Schumpeterian hypothesis can be applied to the innovation performance of Chinese high-tech industry when considering the interactive effects among firm size, ownership and profitability. Using a panel data of 12 industries during the period of 1996-2005, R&D expenditure is found to have a positive and significant impact on innovation performance. Besides, R&D labor makes significant contributions to product-related innovation but does not have impact on the efficiency of knowledge-related innovation. We find firm size per se has negative impact on the efficiency of product-related R&D, but its complementarities with profitability and ownership lead to positive impact on efficiency in product-related R&D. The economies of scale deriving from firm size are observed in knowledge-related innovation.","PeriodicalId":332967,"journal":{"name":"2008 4th IEEE International Conference on Management of Innovation and Technology","volume":"53 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-10-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129302783","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":"Study on risk control of ship pilotage in Shanghai harbour","authors":"Q. Fang, Shenping Hu","doi":"10.1109/ICMIT.2008.4654538","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMIT.2008.4654538","url":null,"abstract":"Based on a thorough investigation of the pilotage accidents in Shanghai harbour during last 13 years and other effective ways for getting the information about the dangers of the pilotage, the pilotage risks in various navigating areas of Shanghai harbour are presented. Through the analysis of the practical traffic situation and assessment of the pilotage risks, the detailed proposals and systematic measures for the avoidance and control of these risks have been putted out. In the paper, some detailed information, methods and ideas about the pilotage risk control in Shanghai Harbour have been introduced and discussed.","PeriodicalId":332967,"journal":{"name":"2008 4th IEEE International Conference on Management of Innovation and Technology","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-10-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128415847","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":"Reflective review of relationship between Total Quality Management and organizational performance","authors":"N. Zakuan, S.M. Yusof, T. Laosirihongthong","doi":"10.1109/ICMIT.2008.4654406","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMIT.2008.4654406","url":null,"abstract":"In operation management/strategy research field, Total Quality Management (TQM) has been considered as infrastructural strategy. Both manufacturing and service organizations trend to implement this strategy in order to maintain their competitive advantages. The purpose of this study is to develop the conceptual model of TQM implementation. Authors review updated literature on TQM research organized along two main themes: evolution of TQM considering as a set of practice, and its impacts to organizational performance. Two research questions are proposed in order to re-validate TQM constructs: (a) Is the set of practices associated with TQM valid as a whole? (b) What performance measures should be considered to exhibit an effectiveness of its implementation?","PeriodicalId":332967,"journal":{"name":"2008 4th IEEE International Conference on Management of Innovation and Technology","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-10-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128463428","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":"Open source software publishers’ business models: the strategic role of licenses","authors":"L. Muselli","doi":"10.1109/ICMIT.2008.4654535","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMIT.2008.4654535","url":null,"abstract":"This article aims to examine the strategic role of licenses in software publisherspsila business models. It shows how licenses can be used as a strategic tool to both create value and capture revenues by modifying a given regime of appropriability. It also shows how open source software publishers manage to capture revenues through various business models, according to the type of software they provide.","PeriodicalId":332967,"journal":{"name":"2008 4th IEEE International Conference on Management of Innovation and Technology","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-10-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129125613","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":"Equipment risk management assessment in the petrochemical industry","authors":"R. Huang, C. Yang, C. Kao","doi":"10.1109/ICMIT.2008.4654568","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMIT.2008.4654568","url":null,"abstract":"This study examines quantization and quality factors to construct an assessment model for equipment risk management in the petrochemical industry. The procedure is divided into three stages: 1. setting up a preliminary indicator construct, 2. revising assessment indicators and 3. setting up assessment models. This model is based on five major dimensions, including financial performance, logistic support, service level, learning and innovation and risk control. It further develops thirteen strategy subjects and seventy-seven performance-measurement indicators. Performance assessment indicators are initially established and revised after collecting expert opinions by questionnaire. Further, Analysis Network Process (ANP) is used to calculate the weighted values of indicators at each layer and to construct assessment models with applicable and valuable references.","PeriodicalId":332967,"journal":{"name":"2008 4th IEEE International Conference on Management of Innovation and Technology","volume":"86 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-10-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117076562","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":"The E-tailer’s performance, pricing ability and the e-market attributes","authors":"Yida Wang","doi":"10.1109/ICMIT.2008.4654416","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMIT.2008.4654416","url":null,"abstract":"E-tailers play an important role in peoplepsilas daily life. This paper, through an empirical approach and quantitative data analysis, investigates the relationship between the E-tailerpsilas performance, its pricing ability, and the attributes of e-market. A survey done in East China, Shandong, Jiangsu and Zhejiang. The results leads to a conceptual model of successful e-business, showed that e-tailing in China is becoming maturity, the E-tailerpsilas pricing ability has positively related with the companypsilas performance, and the e-marketpsilas attributespsila, the number of E-tailers, the popularity of the products, the viewing frequency of the website, the degree of the e-market turbulence, influence the E-tailerpsilas pricing ability. The paper closes with the advice to the E-tailers pricing strategy and business operations.","PeriodicalId":332967,"journal":{"name":"2008 4th IEEE International Conference on Management of Innovation and Technology","volume":"81 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-10-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117230700","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":"Approaches on evaluating industrialization potentiality of Olympic technology projects based on interpretive structural modelling","authors":"Feifei Wu, Lucheng Huang","doi":"10.1109/ICMIT.2008.4654342","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMIT.2008.4654342","url":null,"abstract":"In order to hold a ldquohigh-techrdquo Olympics in 2008, the Chinese government puts forward the concept of ldquoTechnology for Olympicsrdquo, and implements ldquoTechnology for Olympics (2008) Action Planrdquo which have fund many researches projects. How to select the industrialization potential projects from all of the research projects pool is an important issues for technology industrialization. The paper proposes an thought on the industrialization potential evaluation of ldquoTechnology for Olympicsrdquo based on ISM aiming at solving the conflict of ldquoreality and reliabilityrdquo and ldquotime and resources limitationrdquo. The proposed methodology concludes two steps on the evaluation: one is to realize ldquoreality and reliabilityrdquo by selecting investigator triangulation according to evaluation content, and the other is to reduce the expending of ldquotime and resourcesrdquo by logistic processing of the evaluation steps.","PeriodicalId":332967,"journal":{"name":"2008 4th IEEE International Conference on Management of Innovation and Technology","volume":"68 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-10-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117353677","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}