Empirical Studies on Inter-Organizational Collaborative Product Development

2006 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 179-187 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chih-Hsing Chu ◽  
Chia-Jung Chang ◽  
Han-Chung Cheng
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
Product Design ◽  
Value Chain ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Global Market ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Global Value Chain ◽  
Asia Pacific Region ◽  
Collaborative Product Development ◽  
Collaboration Process

Collaborative product development (CPD) has become an imperative for companies to strengthen their niche values and remain competitive in the global market. However, most scholars may lack knowledge of deploying CPD in current industrial settings, and their research efforts may thus fail to fulfill practical needs. This paper presents a series of empirical case studies on distributed product development in Asia-Pacific Region. Engineering collaborations among brand-owner, manufacturer, and supplier in six product design chains (desktop PC, IC substrate, LCD monitor, bicycle, mold design, and CPU cooler) are under investigation. A systematic approach is developed that categorizes CPD into three modes based on the number of engineering BOM items and the difficulty of modularization in product design. It provides a preliminary but structured template for CPD deployment by characterizing the implications and software features of each mode. The cases also reveal values which CPD creates for the downstream supplier of a global value chain and new IT technologies enabling the collaboration process. This work is one of the early studies that analyze collaborative product development from the perspective of a manufacturer. The findings complement and corroborate theoretical studies in related research.

Antecedents of work readjustment of professional returnees: evidence from Vietnam

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 58-72
Author(s):  
Hung Trong Hoang ◽  
Nga Thi Thuy Ho
Keyword(s):  
Home Country ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Subjective Norm ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Asia Pacific Region ◽  
Developed Country ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Overseas Work ◽  
Practical Implications

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the factors influencing work readjustment of Vietnamese returnees who used to study and/or work in a developed country and are currently working in different positions in their home country. Design/methodology/approach Data for this study were collected through a survey of 433 returnees using both paper-based and online surveys. Multiple regression was used to test the relationships in the model. Findings The findings show that while the length of time spent overseas, work expectations and subjective norm significantly affect work readjustment, the influences of age, gender and length of time since return on work readjustment are not supported. Practical implications The findings provide useful insights for home country government and managers of returnees developing repatriation programs that help returnees deal with the issue of poor work readjustment. Originality/value Empirical studies on cross-cultural re-entry adjustment of both self-initiated repatriates and international students are scarcely investigated. Most prior studies focused on individual factors (such as gender, age, duration in overseas and since return), research on the effect of work expectation on work readjustment is still scant. Most prior studies focused on examining the relationship between work expectation and work readjustment of company repatriates, however, this relationship in the context of returnees, especially in the Asia-Pacific region, has not been investigated. Furthermore, this study is the first to examine the influence of subjective norm on work readjustment of returnees.

scholarly journals Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank

2015 ◽  
Vol 01 (04) ◽  
pp. 667-685 ◽  
Author(s):  
Petra G. Kubalkova
Keyword(s):  
Global Market ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Infrastructure Investment ◽  
Pacific Region ◽  
Asia Pacific Region ◽  
Investment Bank ◽  
Economic Determinants ◽  
Bretton Woods ◽  
Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank ◽  
Economic Volatility

The Chinese-led Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) faces monumental challenges derived from institutional and financial accountability, as well as the ability to deliver on its promises of increased economic integration in the Asia-Pacific region. Nevertheless, China is resolute in cementing its economic position in the global market and expanding its regional influence. The main justification for instituting AIIB is to provide secured loans to underdeveloped Asia-Pacific countries ineligible to obtain funds through other global financial institutions. However, by lessening loan barriers, AIIB’s approach threatens to give rise to regional economic volatility — a vice adamantly despised under the Bretton Woods system. The pivotal element that defines AIIB’s outcome is a well-diversified cofounding member cohort insistent on implementing sound regulatory measures. AIIB needs a divergent membership that considers the socio-economic determinants of individual requestors, allowing for well-diversified and well-balanced opinions on operating principles. Without this element China might be subjugating its clients, the Asia-Pacific countries, to yet another form of manipulation that was shunned under the Bretton Woods system. Would this be another subtle attempt of Chinese influence for a stake in regional hegemony under a guise of alleviating the impoverished regions of Asia-Pacific? Transparency, emphasis on operating principles enacted with democratic accord and accountability should serve as guiding blocks of the well-diversified cofounding cohort. These measures would hold China to its vows of increased prosperity in the Asia-Pacific region, which it is attempting to deliver through AIIB. This paper examines the advantages of the AIIB as well as drawbacks that could place the Asia-Pacific countries into another “golden straitjacket” if these propositions are not taken into consideration.

Heterogeneous Knowledge Integrated Management Based on Topic Maps in Collaborative Product Development

2010 ◽  
Vol 118-120 ◽  
pp. 717-721
Author(s):  
Li Yun Yan ◽  
Zong Bin Li ◽  
Xiao Chun Yang
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Product Development ◽  
Product Design ◽  
Collaborative Design ◽  
Management Approach ◽  
Collaborative Product Development ◽  
Integration Model ◽  
Engineering Knowledge ◽  
Collaborative Product Design ◽  
Heterogeneous Knowledge

. Successful collaborative product development depends on the ability to effectively manage and share engineering knowledge and experience throughout the entire development process. This paper presents a distributed heterogeneous engineering knowledge management approach for the practice of collaborative product design. Firstly, a XTM based heterogeneous knowledge integration model in collaborative product design is proposed; Then, a knowledge management framework in collaborative design process is developed; Finally, a knowledge management system in collaborative design is constructed.

scholarly journals A Road to the Recognition of Home-Workers: Transformation of POS Production Modes and Roles of Home-workers in Batik Industry in Central Java (Case Study in Cluster Batik in Central Java)

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Arianti Ina R. Hunga
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
Value Chain ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Value Added ◽  
Global Market ◽  
Production Costs ◽  
Transformation Model ◽  
Central Java ◽  
Public Areas ◽  
Home Workers

Home-work (HW) in the putting-out system (POS)-based industry is the real proof of global capitalism existence in domestic space. It utilizes house resources and manipulates the domestic area to keep production costs low in order to compete in the global market. POS and HW become paradoxical as they are widely employed and categorized as strategic commodity production, market their products to the global market, and involve certain skills, creativity and technology. Nevertheless, the facts are obscured from public eyes. Efforts to uncover the obscured facts have been done through POS and HW transformation strategies, which are described in this paper. The paper aims at promoting POS and HW into public areas. The data used were gathered through participatory action research on batik industry based on "putting-out" system in cluster batik in Central Java from gender perspectives. The transformation model was used to promote POS and HW and to seek recognition of the facts that were based on system advantages and capacity enhancement of home-workers while enhancing product values through “fair trade” market. The implemented model has four components, namely: 1) development of innovation and technology that focused on product development, production, and marketing on the alternative market; 2) innovation and technological transfer in product development for better value chain and value added; 3) engineering and strengthening of production institutionalization, which is based on POS clusters; 4) engineering and strengthening of marketing institutionalization of alternative market; and 5) development and strengthening of vocal points that are related to and in support of the implementation. This model gave out positive impact on supporting the implementation of POS and POS roles and promoting this reality. As a model, however, this transformation model needed to be developed that it might be disseminated to a larger scale.

A STUDY ON TELE-COLLABORATIVE PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT

2002 ◽  
Vol 01 (03) ◽  
pp. 441-455 ◽  
Author(s):  
JUNQI YAN ◽  
JUNYING SHEN ◽  
WEIMING SHEN
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
Process Management ◽  
Virtual Enterprise ◽  
Digital Camera ◽  
Global Market ◽  
Collaborative Product Development ◽  
File Transfer ◽  
Digital Network ◽  
Integrated Service Digital Network ◽  
Data Files

The tele-collaborative product development (TeleCo-PD) is an important technology for modern enterprises to win in the 21st century global market. It concerns how to utilize distributed product development resources to design and manufacture a new product. This paper presents a series of tools developed to construct a TeleCo-PD platform, which provides small and middle size enterprises with the ability to collaborate with each other. The proposed platform is based on an Integrated Service Digital Network (ISDN), with a Client/Server based process management system for defining and assigning tasks, a whiteboard for sharing engineering drawings, and a File Transfer Protocol server for transferring product data files. The platform has been deployed in a virtual enterprise in developing a new digital camera.

scholarly journals Financial Constraints, Trade Mode Transition, and Global Value Chain Upgrading of Chinese Firms

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (17) ◽  
pp. 4527 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lin Chen ◽  
Sumei Luo ◽  
Tian Zhao
Keyword(s):  
Value Chain ◽  
Financial Constraints ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Value Added ◽  
Economic Transformation ◽  
Global Value Chain ◽  
Firm Level ◽  
Chinese Enterprises ◽  
Chinese Banks ◽  
Level Production

China is facing the serious problem of ‘low-end locking’ in the global value chain as it becomes deeply integrated into world trade. Deciphering how to upgrade Chinese enterprises’ positions in the global value chain is crucial to China’s economic transformation and sustainable development. This study explores the feasibility of upgrading China’s global value chain from the perspective of financial constraints. Based on a theoretical framework, this study applies firm-level production data and trade data, using a documented method of measuring domestic value added at the firm level. Besides, we apply three methods to comprehensively measure the financial constraints faced by enterprises. In our study, we verify the findings of previous empirical studies that reducing financial constraints can significantly increase enterprises’ domestic value added, and this conclusion remains valid after considering various robustness tests. Our heterogeneity analysis indicates that easing financial constraints can significantly contribute to Chinese private enterprises’ upgrade in the global value chain, which could be related with “ownership discrimination” of Chinese banks. Finally, this study analyses the two mechanisms by which relaxing financial constraints could promote global value chain upgrading: (i) directly transfer enterprises’ trade mode from processing trade to general trade and (ii) allowing enterprises to climb up in the global value chain.

Adaptive market hypothesis and investor sentiments: global evidence

2020 ◽  
Vol 46 (11) ◽  
pp. 1407-1436
Author(s):  
Abhinava Tripathi ◽  
Vipul Vipul ◽  
Alok Dixit
Keyword(s):  
Financial Markets ◽  
Market Efficiency ◽  
Global Market ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Momentum Effect ◽  
Return Distribution ◽  
Asia Pacific Region ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Reversal Effect ◽  
Global Evidence

PurposeThe purpose of this study is to investigate the adaptive market hypothesis (AMH) for 21 major global market indices for the period 1998–2018. These market indices cover the 16 largest global financial markets.Design/methodology/approachQuantile-regression methodology is employed to examine the market efficiency of a large number of financial markets from America, Europe and the Asia–Pacific region.FindingsThe results show that the returns in higher quantiles are negatively autocorrelated, and those in lower quantiles are positively autocorrelated. This evidence is stronger for the tails of return distribution. The positive autocorrelation (momentum effect) suggests market underreaction, and the negative autocorrelation (reversal effect) suggests overreaction. Overall, market efficiency appears to be time-varying and conditioned to the state of the market.Originality/valueThis study offers considerable evidence in favor of the AMH, for a large number of financial markets. These markets are substantially different from each other in terms of geography, nature of operation and size of the economy. The results from this study would be helpful to the academics, regulators and practitioners interested in financial markets.

scholarly journals Integration Processes in the asia-Pacific Region with the Participation of China and the Position of Russia

2018 ◽  
Vol 22 (6) ◽  
pp. 95-105
Author(s):  
A. V. Kuznetsov
Keyword(s):  
Value Chain ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
World Order ◽  
Political Support ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Pacific Region ◽  
Asia Pacific Region ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
The World

Flourishing of the East Asian Tigers has led to unparalleled growth in trade in the Asia-Pacific region (APR). The crises of the multilateral trading system and the need to move to a polycentric model of the world order have become the pivotal motives to enhance cooperation in the Asia-Pacific region. Expected to be signed by the end of 2018, a Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) agreement can be the institutional framework for integration processes in the Asia Pacific region. The Asia-Pacific region is one of the most prospective regions in the world in terms of consuming natural gas and oil. Successful integration processes in Asia depend significantly on the foreign policy priorities of Russia, the key geopolitical player and energy producer. The objective of the article is to reveal the nature of China’s participation in building a new global economy model on the example of the RCEP as well as the position of Russia regarding the integration processes in the Asia-Pacific region. The methods of scientific abstraction, comparative analysis and logical generalization have been used. The main theoretical approaches have been systematized and summarized the analysis of the role of China in the integration processes in the Asia-Pacific region in the context of the polycyclic transformations of the global economy dominant paradigm. China regards the uSA as its main competitor and the usurper of global resources. In recent decades, China has demonstrated undeniable economic achievements based on the success of the industrial policy. China is leading the creation of the world largest trade bloc to be able to determine independently the future agenda of the global economy. However, with no political support, intellectual and raw materials resources of Russia, it will be difficult for China to achieve parity with the West in the world economic arena. It has been concluded that in order to take advantage of the integration processes in the APR, Russia should take an active position in a constructive dialogue with China and other Asia-Pacific countries on numerous unresolved issues of bilateral and multilateral cooperation. Asian investors and consumers should be admitted to Russian oil and gas resources simultaneously with the introduction of Russia in the regional value chain in the Asia-Pacific region on mutually beneficial terms.

scholarly journals Understanding key drivers of attitudes toward income inequality in the Asia Pacific region

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Vo Hong Duc ◽  
Nguyen Cong Thanh ◽  
Pham Ngoc Thach ◽  
Vo The Anh ◽  
Vu Ngoc Tan
Keyword(s):  
Income Inequality ◽  
Family Income ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Demographic Factors ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
World Values Survey ◽  
Pacific Region ◽  
Asia Pacific Region ◽  
Key Drivers

Attitude toward income inequality and its drivers have attracted great attention from policymakers around the globe. Nevertheless, it appears that there is a shortage of empirical studies on the issue, at least in the context of the Asia-Pacific region – the World’s most dynamic economic region. This study is conducted to determine key drivers of attitude toward income inequality from various demographic factors, including Gender, Age, Political party, Education, Supervision, Family income, and Class. Available data for 19 countries at a different level of economic growth and development in the region are collected from the World Values Survey in 2016. The findings from this empirical study suggest that the role of each demographic factor as a significant explanation of variation in the attitude toward income inequality is different across nations in the study. In addition, a set of demographic factors, significantly contributing to the variation in attitude toward income inequality, varies across selected countries in the study. Among the demographic factors, Supervision and Class tend to be dominant factors in explaining variation in the attitude toward income inequality.

scholarly journals The entry of Brazilian fresh fruit small and medium producers into the global market

2010 ◽  
Vol 48 (3) ◽  
pp. 521-538 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roberta de Castro Souza ◽  
João Amato Neto
Keyword(s):  
Value Chain ◽  
Financial Support ◽  
Global Market ◽  
Dynamic Capability ◽  
Global Value Chain ◽  
Local Economies ◽  
New Techniques ◽  
Conceptual Background ◽  
Multiple Case ◽  
Multiple Case Studies

The objective of this paper is to identify some elements which contribute to the entry of small and medium producers into the global market. Specifically, it analyses the case of the greatest Brazilian mango and grape exported region - the Petrolina-Juazeiro (P-J). The conceptual background consists of two approaches. The first conceptual framework is the Global Value Chain (GVC) approach which is mainly concerned with the entry of local economies, from developing countries, into the global market. The second approach is the dynamic capability which is mainly concerned with the way the firm could acquire capabilities. The method selected for the empirical part was the multiple-case studies which were made viable by means of semi-structured questionnaires conducted with mango and grape producer agents from P-J Region in Brazil and European buyers. This study indicates that some institutions have been supporting the export activities in terms of irrigation techniques, new techniques of cultivation, financial support and the introduction of some certificates such as EurepGap. Lastly, the mango and grape producers have been undertaking upgrading of product, process and functional.

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