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Showing 1 to 20 of 34 for “"Product variety"”.
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Product Variety, Innovation and Growth
… the identification and classification of firm products, process and product innovations, and clean technologies at the firm level for public and private firms. Furthermore, we propose methods of aggregating these measures at the industry and economy level. We use the newly proposed measures in …
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Finite Groups Generating a Product Variety
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Asian Export Performance: Diversification, Product Variety, and Productivity
… Asian countries with an emphasis on the role of product diversification, change in product variety, and the impact of export orientation on manufacturing productivity. The developing Asian countries provide an ideal laboratory for a comparative case study of these issues for two reasons. First, …
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Asian Export Performance: Diversification, Product Variety, and Productivity
… Asian countries with an emphasis on the role of product diversification, change in product variety, and the impact of export orientation on manufacturing productivity. The developing Asian countries provide an ideal laboratory for a comparative case study of these issues for two reasons. First, …
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Structural analysis and control of flexible manufacturing systems with a performance perspective
… economies of scope, where emphasis is placed on product variety and customization, as well as the increased responsiveness of the production system to widely fluctuating demands. At the shop-floor level, this new paradigm is enabled by extensive computer driven automation. This, in turn, …
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Three papers in international economics and macroeconomics
… equilibrium model featuring skill bias in productivity and endogenous educational and occupational choices. Quantitatively, I show the relevance of this model for the case of China's entry into the WTO and use the model to examine the impact of counterfactual trade policies. The second …
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Harnessing Product Complexity: An Integrative Approach
… companies are faced with pressure to increase variety in product offerings. While increasing variety can help increase market share and sales growth, the costs of doing so can be significant. Ultimately, variety causes complexity in products and processes to soar, which negatively impacts …
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Optimal dynamic pricing for two perishable and substitutable products
… where a seller offers two types of a generic product to a random number of customers. Customers show up sequentially. When a customer arrives, he will ---depending on the prices---either purchase one unit of type 1 product or one unit of type 2 product, or will leave empty-handed. The sale …
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Demand management : a cross-industry analysis of supply-demand planning
Globalization increases product variety and shortens product life cycles. These lead to an increase in demand uncertainty and variability. Outsourcing to low-cost countries increases supply lead-time and supply uncertainty and variability. Coupled with the increase of mergers and acquisitions, …
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Product design for supply chain : quantifying the costs of complexity in Hewlett-Packard's retail desktop PC business
… division has faced pressures to increase retail product variety in response to growing customer demand. As they pursue incremental revenue and market share to meet corporate milestones, their, product portfolio grows and the overall complexity of the business increases. The holistic effects of …
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Modeling supply chain benefits of efficient assortment
… their financial results through eliminating unproductive inventory and reducing unnecessary complexity has led to an increased pressure on their suppliers. In order to adapt to the new market settings, a major manufacturer of consumer goods wanted to be able to look at its product portfolio …
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Linking modularity and cost : a methodology to assess cost implications of product architecture differences to support product design
… 'niche' markets, and create a need for greater variety. At the same time, increasing product variety in non-growing markets results in decreasing production volumes per model, which tends to increase costs. Modularity as a design concept has been suggested to be able reconciling these opposing …
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"To integrate or to differentiate?" - Towards resolving a multi-channel dilemma investigation of the effects of channel integration strategies on consumers' evaluations of multi-channel utility and their adoption of multi-channel shopping
… correspondence between the channels in terms of product variety and assortment, pricing, and promotion. Using choice-based conjoint analysis, this dissertation shows that consumers prefer greater fulfillment integration and moderate levels of merchandising similarity between the store and the …
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Commercial gas turbine engine platform strategy and design
Product development challenges companies to produce designs that meet customer requirements yet, that are within their technological and financial means to do so. The proliferation of customized or unique designs may tax the resources of a firm if product variety cannot be achieved in a …
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A global perspective of the wine supply chain : the case of Argentinean wineries and the U.S. market
Consumers are constantly demanding better products, at lower prices, along with better overall services and customer support. Organizations, on the other hand, are struggling with shorter product life cycles, increased product variety and lower profit margins due to fierce global competition and …
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A system complexity approach for the integration of product development and production system design
… system cannot be viewed without considering the products produced in the system. Lack of understanding in this relationship may lead to difficulties in product portfolio design and manufacturing system design. In this thesis, it is shown that by designing a manufacturing system properly, we can …
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Product family architecture modularity using function and variety heuristics
… market and functional aspects of developing a product portfolio architecture. Product use based market analysis of customer needs and product features is performed to determine the set of portfolio target values. The variation in these target values among and within customers is interpreted to …
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Improving Manufacturing Systems Using Integrated Discrete Event Simulation and Evolutionary Algorithms
High variety and low volume manufacturing environment always been a challenge for organisations to maintain their overall performance especially because of the high level of variability induced by ever changing customer demand, high product variety, cycle times, routings and machine failures. All …
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A methodology to assess cost implications of automotive customization
… that are not individualized and demand a greater variety and individuality. Consequently the automakers are moving towards custom-made cars by customizing the shape and style of components; and this at a certain price. While product variety enables the firm to charge higher prices, automotive …
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Effects of content marketing on attitude formation in the South African energy drink market
… that of the consumer. More precisely, the huge product variety and the access to non-commercial information in terms of user-generated content gives the consumer incredible autonomy. Facing these circumstances, marketing practitioners are adjusting their strategies in producing informative or …
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