More and more manufacturing companies are talking about what’s often called the circular economy—in which businesses can create supply chains that recover or recycle the resources used to create their products. Shrinking their environmental footprint, trimming operational waste, and using expensive resources more efficiently are certainly appealing to CEOs. But creating a circular business …
This study examines sales channel strategies for international expansion as a means of compensating for constantly decreasing unit prices and margins in the personal computer (PC) industry operation in the European Union market. The development from single (direct or indirect) to multiple (dual or hybrid) sales channel strategy for international expansion is described and analyzed on the basis …
The diffusion patterns of the adjacent generations of technology and its relation to the time that elapses between them - intergeneration time - is discussed. Forty-five new technologies in 15 industries are analyzed, and it was found that the adoption curves systematically vary across generations from 2 years for dynamic random-access memory chips to more than 30 years for steelmaking. The lon…
Innovative industries are often characterized by rapid product turnover. Product longevity may be driven by both a product's position within a market as well as its position within a firm's larger product portfolio. However, we have little understanding of the relative importance of these factors in determining product turnover and how they interact as an industry evolves. Although researchers …
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