{"title":"On the R&D Priority Setting in Technology Foresight: a DEA and ANP Approach","authors":"Hakyeon Lee, Changyong Lee, H. Seol, Yongtae Park","doi":"10.1109/ICMIT.2006.262375","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMIT.2006.262375","url":null,"abstract":"One of the salient objectives of technology foresight is the determination of R&D priorities. However, there have been few systematic approaches proposed for prioritization of emerging technologies in the foresight context. This study is aimed at proposing a systematic approach based on multiple criteria decision making (MCDM) methods to setting R&D priorities of emerging technologies in the technology foresight context. The proposed approach consists of two stages with two MCDM methods. At the first stage, a number of emerging technologies are screened with macro-level criteria. The socio-economic cost-benefit analysis is conducted by use of data envelopment analysis (DEA). The second stage dealt with the detailed prioritization of the emerging technologies which have passed through the first stage. Analytic network process (ANP) is employed with micro-level criteria. The derived R&D priorities of emerging technologies are expected to aid decision making on how to allocate R&D resources","PeriodicalId":431021,"journal":{"name":"2006 IEEE International Conference on Management of Innovation and Technology","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123160479","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":"Improving Employee Satisfaction on Performance Appraisal: A Case Study on Thai Companies","authors":"S. Shrestha, J. Chalidabhongse","doi":"10.1109/ICMIT.2006.262243","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMIT.2006.262243","url":null,"abstract":"A company's success often depends on its employees' performance. Performance appraisals on employees need to be conducted regularly in order to improve quality of work. Inappropriately performed appraisal can lead to employee dissatisfaction and decline in work performance. We conducted a survey on performance measurement by sending out 300 questionnaires to some government agencies and some private companies in Thailand and obtained a response rate of 48.5%. The survey was done in order to obtain information regarding the existing appraisal systems in Thailand; the criteria being used in the appraisal systems to evaluate employees; employees' level of satisfaction on job, training systems and feedback methods; and to get a better idea of what kind of appraisal system would be suitable for Thai companies. Certain hypotheses were set and data analyses were performed on the data collected from the survey. The data analysis has helped us to determine the factors which truly affect and are important to improve employee satisfaction on performance appraisal. These factors can be used to construct a computer-based performance measurement system in a quantitative way, which should result in higher satisfaction for both employers and employees","PeriodicalId":431021,"journal":{"name":"2006 IEEE International Conference on Management of Innovation and Technology","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131390321","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":"A Service Quality Management Model Based on Process Approach","authors":"W. Chiu, B. Cheng","doi":"10.1109/ICMIT.2006.262317","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMIT.2006.262317","url":null,"abstract":"In order to strive towards higher levels of customer satisfaction, managers within service industries need to increasingly construct the quality management system to improve service quality. However, there were few studies paying attention to how to implement a quality management system based on the indicators of proposed service quality scales. Moreover, it is seldom considered that the priority of the indicators maybe vary from one stage to another stage in service processes. If this fact is neglected, then customer requirements may be not met effectively. The proposed model, Quality Train Model (QTM), mainly presents three key concepts as customer focus, process approach, and Deming's wheel. The methodology of QTM consists of six steps: initiating, identifying, planning, implementing, diagnosing and recovering","PeriodicalId":431021,"journal":{"name":"2006 IEEE International Conference on Management of Innovation and Technology","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131902178","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":"Customer Asset Orientation and Its Impact on the Relationship between Market Orientation and New Product Development Performance","authors":"Yonggui Wang, Guicheng Shi, Zhong Yang, Xiao Zhang","doi":"10.1109/ICMIT.2006.262218","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMIT.2006.262218","url":null,"abstract":"While the benefits of market orientation are largely accepted and the importance of customer asset are widely recognized, a group of scholars and managers remain skeptical, and few studies have empirically examined the complexity of the effects of these constructs on firm performance. The study is to develop a valid measure of customer asset orientation and then examine its impact the relationship between market orientation and new product development performance by distinguishing responsive market orientation and proactive market orientation. Based on evidence from China firms, the moderating effect of customer asset orientation is found","PeriodicalId":431021,"journal":{"name":"2006 IEEE International Conference on Management of Innovation and Technology","volume":"197 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133752252","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":"Patterns of innovation and protection activities within service companies; Results from a German study on service-intensive companies and lessons learned for emerging Asian markets","authors":"C. Hipp, C. Herstatt","doi":"10.1109/ICMIT.2006.262180","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMIT.2006.262180","url":null,"abstract":"There is an increasing number of researchers conducting empirical and theoretical investigations to better understand innovation and protection activities of service companies. In fact, previous analyses reveal that the protection topic is difficult to study, particularly when using traditional measurement concepts like patents. Thus, a different analytical conceptual frame has been developed in order to investigate deeper knowledge about service innovation protection and corporate strategic behaviors","PeriodicalId":431021,"journal":{"name":"2006 IEEE International Conference on Management of Innovation and Technology","volume":"106 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114931463","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 External Knowledge Sources for Firms' Technology Capabilities Accumulation","authors":"Zhao Xiaoqing, Xu Qingrui","doi":"10.1109/ICMIT.2006.262397","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMIT.2006.262397","url":null,"abstract":"This paper handles two questions: Do external technology sources have determined technology capability accumulation in Chinese firms? If so, which sources are more important, foreign technologies or Chinese institutions and customers? To deal with these questions, according to our research on some Chinese firms, we select some types of technological change and the stage of firms' technology capabilities evolution as explanatory variables of external knowledge sources. Basing on the survey data administered to six manufacturing firms of four industries in China, we have found that they all view external knowledge sources as important forces to accumulate technology capabilities. Furthermore, through data analysis, we discover that the six firms can be divided into two types: one type consists of five firms, their primary external sources are foreign firms. The second type consists of two firms, their primary external knowledge sources are Chinese universities and the institutes of scientific research and customers. This result is consistent with our theory analysis","PeriodicalId":431021,"journal":{"name":"2006 IEEE International Conference on Management of Innovation and Technology","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115042568","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":"Business and Scientific Forms of Argumentation in Commercialization: Dictators and Chinwaggers","authors":"K. Hayes, A. Fitzgerald","doi":"10.1109/ICMIT.2006.262250","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMIT.2006.262250","url":null,"abstract":"Commercialisation activities combining the discoveries of one occupational group, such as scientists, with the commercial skills of engineers and managers involve interactions across occupational cultures. This paper considers how dissent can be interpreted as a sign of dysfunction or cause for concern. The context of the study is Australian hybrid research organisations comprised of academic, government and industry personnel. Semi-structured interviews of a total of twenty scientists, engineers and managers focussed on their experiences and perceptions of occupational norms, including styles of debate, and the potential of these norms to facilitate or obstruct commercialization. Distinctive patterns of argumentation were identified as typical of commercial and research occupations. In addition, the interviewees confirmed that occupational forms of argumentation could influence the outcomes of commercialization","PeriodicalId":431021,"journal":{"name":"2006 IEEE International Conference on Management of Innovation and Technology","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117331954","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":"Role of Emotional Intelligence in Virtual Project Management","authors":"Shazia Nauman, M. Elahi, Z. A. Bhatti, U. Khalid","doi":"10.1109/ICMIT.2006.262298","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMIT.2006.262298","url":null,"abstract":"In today's competitive global environment, projects in organizations consist of cross-functional teams that are formed to utilize individual expertise. A project manager whose primary responsibility is to achieve project objectives deals these individuals. Since the rational and emotional aspects of a project vary in complexity, the role of the project manager is critical to project success. The objective of this study was to demonstrate linkages between emotional intelligence and the challenges faced by virtual project managers. The study also shows that there exists a multi tier relationship between emotional intelligence (EI) and challenges/elements of VPM","PeriodicalId":431021,"journal":{"name":"2006 IEEE International Conference on Management of Innovation and Technology","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123505997","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":"Nationalization or Privatization? ---- Present and Future of China's Steel Industry","authors":"P. Tao, Y.J. Wang, H.X. Xue","doi":"10.1109/ICMIT.2006.262170","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMIT.2006.262170","url":null,"abstract":"With the continually deepening of the China's industrialization process, as the fundamental industry, the steel industry has become more and more important, but its international competition power is not strong enough, which is the reason of the release of \"Chinese Steel Industry Policy\". By analyzing the status quo of Chinese steel industry, this paper chiefly analyzes the crucial problems, which exists in the process of Chinese steel industry developing, and explains the path dependence phenomena thereof; then by comparing the advantages between SOEs and the private steel mills, the privatization potential of Chinese steel sector is studied further","PeriodicalId":431021,"journal":{"name":"2006 IEEE International Conference on Management of Innovation and Technology","volume":"61 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117199385","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":"Influencing Factors of Continuous Improvements and Tendency of Change","authors":"Cheng Yanjiang, W. Dan, X. Lang","doi":"10.1109/ICMIT.2006.262259","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMIT.2006.262259","url":null,"abstract":"Continuous improvement (CI) is an important means of establishing competitive advantages. Therefore, it is necessary that companies choose CI measures according to their competitive strategy. However, the actual selection of CI measures is influenced by many factors. This paper makes an empirical study about the influencing factors of CI using 2003 data of the Global Continuous Innovation Network. Structural equation models (SEM) are used to analyze the importance of the influencing factors of CI activities. The influence of the external environment changes on CI is proved and issues to be considered in CI implementation are analyzed. The paper concludes by offering some suggestions on the implementation of CI activities","PeriodicalId":431021,"journal":{"name":"2006 IEEE International Conference on Management of Innovation and Technology","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124721546","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}