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- Balachandran, Appu, et al.
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Understanding the development of emerging complex intelligent systems
- 2024
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In: Journal of engineering and technology management. - : ELSEVIER. - 0923-4748 .- 1879-1719. ; 72
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This paper explores the intricate emergence of complex and increasingly intelligent systems (CoIS) in the wake of new possibilities created by integrating artificial intelligence (AI) solutions, building on an analysis of the emergence of CoIS using perspectives of development and change. The findings, based on rich qualitative data collected through key informant interviews with reflective practitioners from aviation, automotive and naval system domains, indicate that firms facing the emergence of CoIS, need to build capabilities allowing several logics to co-exist in a newly evolving hybrid CoIS management logic.
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- Flankegård, Filip, et al.
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Supplier involvement in product development : Challenges and mitigating mechanisms from a supplier perspective
- 2021
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In: Journal of engineering and technology management. - : Elsevier. - 0923-4748 .- 1879-1719. ; 60
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This article explores challenges that suppliers experience when being involved in customers’ product development projects, and how these challenges can be mitigated. It presents a framework of supplier involvement in product development involving four dimensions: People-Process-Tools/Technology-Interaction. The framework consists of 24 challenges and associated mitigating mechanisms. The article concludes that suppliers must be aware of the challenges to ensure that proper internal capabilities are in place within their organizations. It also argues that customers should be aware of the challenges to provide best possible prerequisites for suppliers to ensure successful project outcomes.
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- Kulkov, Ignat, et al.
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Navigating uncharted waters : Designing business models for virtual and augmented reality companies in the medical industry
- 2021
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In: Journal of engineering and technology management. - : Elsevier BV. - 0923-4748 .- 1879-1719. ; 59
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- New technologies are at the heart of industry transformation. Virtual and augmented reality companies provide fundamentally new ways of communication, treatment, education, and specialist training within the medical industry. However, business models for new ventures that target the medical industry have received scant attention within academic research. Using a multiple case study approach, we analyze how virtual and augmented reality firms create value for their customers in the medical industry. In all, we have studied eight companies that offer different types of solutions for their target segments. The results of the analysis are four design elements consisting of twelve positions and three design themes that define the similarities and differences between the business models for the companies. We contribute to existing research within the field by analyzing business models of the investigated companies using a design approach, classifying the virtual and augmented reality companies, and analyzing the role of new technology in the development of the medical industry.
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- Lakemond, Nicolette, et al.
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The quest for combined generativity and criticality in digital-physical complex systems
- 2022
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In: Journal of engineering and technology management. - : Elsevier. - 0923-4748 .- 1879-1719. ; 65
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The transformation from physical systems into digital-physical systems puts new engineering and technology management challenges at the foreground. This paper explores how industrial firms engaged in such systems simultaneously can address the seemingly disjunct properties of criticality and generativity in platform-based systems including the connected (inter)-organizational processes and related strategic choices. The in-depth embedded single case study of avionics, the electronics on aircraft, underline the importance of (1) considering organizational and technology aspects together, (2) the long-term gradual transition towards digitalization, and (3) openness in innovation including temporality and cross-industry aspects. Digital innovation appears as a double-edged sword as it enables mastering an increasingly complex system, facilitating its safe operation and maintenance, but at the same time requires new approaches to manage increased complexity during the development and evolution of systems.
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- Pitt, Christine, et al.
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A bibliographic analysis of 20 years of research on innovation and new product development in technology and innovation management (TIM) journals
- 2021
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In: Journal of engineering and technology management. - : Elsevier BV. - 0923-4748 .- 1879-1719. ; 61
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- In this perspectives article, we analyze 20 years of research on the topics of "innovation man-agement" and "new product development" in the technology and innovation management (TIM) domain. More specifically, we investigate the questions related to three issues: (i) Performance: Which authors, institutions, countries, journals, and papers have been most productive (number of papers) and most influential (number of citations)? (ii) Networks: What are the links between authors, between countries, between institutions, between journals and co-citation? (iii) Attention: What has been the shift in research attention (i.e., stated keywords) over time? To do this, we use the VOSViewer bibliographic method to assess the domain's performance and its changes in research attention and present maps of the knowledge structure and networks. Our study adds to and improves upon previous bibliometric reviews in terms of extensivity (i.e., data from 7,612 papers), scope, and accuracy. In addition to the descriptive evaluations of the domain, we also suggest several implications from these results. For performance, we highlight a weak link be-tween productive authors and influential authors, which could be explained by productive au-thors being part of extensive co-authorship networks, being selective and publishing less but in the highest quality journals, and working in countries with institutions that pioneer research on the topic (and conversely, less influential authors working in countries with an incentive structure that rewards quantity but not quality). Our network results help explain that collaborations are linked to research productivity rather than influential research. Further, our network results reveal collaborations based on country linkages that might create research echo chambers in which research attention is augmented or reinforced by a geographical network. From our results on research attention, we discuss how the dominant keywords are restricted to TIM topics and highly influenced by seminal papers and authors outside the TIM domain. Thus, the field is predominantly inward-looking, drawing from other cognate business and management fields, and hardly drawing from other academic fields. These findings elucidate and extend the concerns other innovation management scholars have raised, noting that the lack of varied and cooperative authorship within the TIM domain has led to stale, repeated methods and metrics in TIM papers, potentially reducing the field's future influence. We conclude by outlining some adverse impli-cations of our paper. We explain how its evaluations could further produce confirmation biases author and institution standing and motivate publication strategies and incentives that exacerbate research misconduct.
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- Arvidsson, Ala, 1983, et al.
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Social cross-functional vendor selection in technologically uncertain sourcing situations
- 2022
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In: Journal of Engineering and Technology Management - JET-M. - : Elsevier BV. - 1608-4799 .- 0923-4748. ; 65
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Based on an in-depth case study of an automotive manufacturer sourcing parts for high technology projects, this study investigates the intentions and structure of socialization within and between firms during the supplier selection process in technologically uncertain sourcing situations. Here, we aim to answer the question of how socialization can hedge against the high levels of uncertainty for manufacturers selecting suppliers of high technology resources. The case represents a major automotive manufacturer in Northern Europe, and is based on 38 semi-structured interviews with representatives of the different functions involved in the sourcing for the new development projects. Our data suggest that internal and external socialization during the supplier selection process can improve internal alignment and problem solving, and external familiarity towards the sourcing task. In this context, socialization took place on functional, cross-functional, and (inter)corporate levels, with higher functional autonomy during the assessment, and higher cross-functional integration during negotiations and decision making, adding to the debate on whether functions should be integrated or separated.
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- Persson, Magnus, 1975, et al.
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Effects of customization and product modularization on financial performance
- 2022
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In: Journal of Engineering and Technology Management - JET-M. - : Elsevier BV. - 1608-4799 .- 0923-4748. ; 65
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The need amongst customers for customized products is constantly increasing, and companies can gain competitive advantage by being able to offer a broad product assortment. This study's purpose is to investigate the financial effects of using product modularization as a strategy to manage the need for product customization The paper is based on analysis of data collected through an online survey of Swedish manufacturing firms. The results show that product mod-ularization is a mediator between the need for customization and financial performance, sug-gesting that product modularization is an efficient strategy to facilitate companies' needs for developing customized products.
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