The NewProd System: The Industry Experience

Robert G. Cooper presents an update on the NewProd model, a new product screening, evaluation and diagnostic tool first described in this journal in 1985. He reviews the model's original development and describes subsequent modifications. Next, he presents validation results from North America and Europe, revealing a predictive ability of 73–84%. An actual case study demonstrates NewProd in use, complete with computer output graphics and analysis.     

Unions and Employment Growth: The Canadian Experience

Using panel data from the Canadian Workplace and Employee Survey, the union effect on employment growth is examined. In line with previous North American findings, private sector unions are found to slow employment growth by approximately 2.2 percent per annum. This study is modeled after two recent articles published in this journal; one using the Australian Workplace and Industrial Relations Survey and a subsequent article using the British Workplace and Industrial/Employee Relations Survey.     

The Global Textile Industry-Status and Challenges

In 2007, fiber consumption has enjoyed growth in cotton, cellulosics, polyesters and small-scale fiber types like spandex, aramid and carbon fibers . Established fibers like polyamide,     

Royalty Stacking and Validity Challenges: The Inverse Cournot Effect*

This paper shows that the well-known royalty-stacking problem is not robust to considering licensors with patents of heterogeneous strength due to the Inverse Cournot effect. The incentives for a downstream producer to challenge a weak patent in court increase when the total royalty rate is lower. The Inverse Cournot effect generates a moderation force in the royalty rate of strong patent holders forcing weak licensors to reduce their royalties to avoid litigation and causing an increase in output. This effect is mitigated when all firms have weak patents, making royalty stacking a more relevant concern in that case.     

From Experience: The Corporate Black Hole

There is a lot of creative potential lying dormant in corporations because too many managers fail to see innovation as a process to be deliberately managed. C. Joshua Abend sees innovation connected to virtually everything that happens—or doesn't happen—in an organization. He offers in this article ideas that managers can use to remove the impediments to increased innovation and productivity.     

China 5G: Opportunities and Challenges

China has become a forerunner in the global ICT ecosystem since a catching-up policy was adopted more than two decades ago. Breaking technology dependence has been a focal point over the course of the development. Before the Sino-US trade tensions began in 2018, Chinese telecom companies had been poised to take leadership in the emerging 5G industry. Now, both China and its Western counterpartsface opportunities and challenges. This special edition is aimed to encourage and integrate academic inquiries into related theoretical and policy issues.     

Asian Management Research: Frontiers and Challenges

It is an appropriate time to examine the current achievements and the potential of Asian management research in shaping the body of management knowledge. The papers in this Special Issue examine the theoretical development and conceptualization of Asian management research and identify promising areas for future research. The papers summarize key research trends in several management areas and provide a critical analysis of what has been achieved, what is lacking, and what can be done in future studies. They argue, collectively, that it is fruitful to address some Asian phenomenon and generate theory for global-relevant issues. It is also meaningful to use Asian-developed constructs to study local and global issues. However, there are urgent needs for the development and validation of new constructs, designing measures and innovative methodology for conducting empirical studies, and linking the Asian-based issues and concepts to current scholarly conversations.     

迎接挑战的利乐公司

最近，利乐包装（昆山）有限公司通过江苏省经贸委对其“外商投资先进企业”的认定，向外资企业规范化方向迈进了一步。利乐公司亚洲与美洲地区总裁博伟森先生说：“利乐公司的营销就是与客户共同成长。”在新的一年里，利乐公司正面临新的挑战与机遇，积极寻求新的发展。霸主地位位于北欧的瑞典，人口８００多万，面积近４５万平方公里，是欧洲第三大国，６２％土地覆盖着广阔的品质优良的森林，造就了欣欣向荣的造纸工业，全球十分之一的纸浆来自瑞典。发达的造纸工业促进了与其相关的包装工业的发展，以生产纸包装而著称于世的利乐包装公…     

多重时代的金融中心:领导统御新考验

主旨报告:《化解失衡的支点:多重危机时代的金融统御力》——陆红军国际金融中心协会主席、上海国际金融学院院长权威发布:世界银行2011年全球发展地平线报告《多极化:新的全球经济》——曼索尔.戴拉米世界银行发展预测局国际金融主管当今世界已进入了以多极经济为基础、多重危机为特征、多重制约为常态、多重失衡相交替的复杂时代,如何从这场全面失衡中寻求化解失     

Linking Union Density and Union Effectiveness: The North American Experience

This study considers how union performance in terms of organizing, bargaining, and political activity are related to severely declining union density (the percentage of the workforce in unions) in the United States and the higher and stable union density in Canada. Canadian unions have remained active in recruiting new members and assign a high priority to organizing, while American unions have shown diminished organizing effort and ability. Canadian unions have demonstrated superior performance in collective bargaining as measured by resistance to concession bargaining and negotiated wage gains, among other factors. Finally, although Canadian unions experienced some political setbacks, they wielded more political influence than their American counterparts in promoting union-specific as well as broad social legislation. Density is examined as both a consequence and determinant of the divergence in union performance.     

Product Development and Learning in Project Teams: The Challenges Are the Benefits*

The value of teams in new product development (NPD) is undeniable. Both the interdisciplinary nature of the work and industry trends necessitate that professionals from different functions work together on development projects to create the highest‐quality product in the shortest time. Understanding the conditions that facilitate teamwork has been a pursuit of researchers for nearly a half century. The present paper reviews existing literature on teams and team learning in organizational behavior and technology and innovation to offer insights for research on NPD teams. Building on prior work, the organizational benefits of NPD teams are summarized, and five attributes of these teams are identified that hinder attainment of their potential: (1) project complexity; (2) cross‐functionality; (3) temporary membership; (4) fluid team boundaries; and (5) embeddedness in organizational structures. It is argued here that effective management of these five attributes allows not only organization‐level benefits but also team‐level benefits in the form of new capabilities and team member resilience. The critical roles of leadership and of communication and conflict management training are then highlighted as strategies for overcoming the challenges to team effectiveness in NPD as well as for realizing five team benefits: (1) project management skills; (2) broad perspective; (3) teaming skills; (4) expanded social network; and (5) boundary‐spanning skills. The paper concludes with a discussion of the implications of these ideas for conducting future team research.     

Transitions Out of Casual Employment: The Australian Experience

This paper uses longitudinal data to examine the extent to which casual employees, who account for almost 25 percent of all Australian employees, are able to access non‐casual jobs in the future, and to contrast their experiences with that of other labor market participants. A dynamic mixed multinomial logit model of labor market states is estimated which reveals high rates of mobility from casual employment into non‐casual employment. Among men, casual employees are found to be far more likely to make the transition into non‐casual employment than otherwise comparable unemployed job seekers. For women, however, this is not the case.     

Individual Wage Growth: The Role of Industry Experience

This paper focuses on the effect of experience within an industry on wages. I use a correlated random effects simultaneous equation model that allows individual and match heterogeneity to affect wages, job tenure, and industry experience. I estimate my model separately for men and women using a large panel of young Italian workers for the years 1986–2004. Results show that wage returns to industry experience are much higher than wage returns to job seniority. The hypotheses of exogeneity of job seniority and industry experience in the wage equation are rejected: high‐wage workers and high‐wage matches last longer.     

The growing complexity of content delivery networks: Challenges and implications for the Internet ecosystem

Since the commercialization of the Internet, content and related applications, including video streaming, news, advertisements, and social interaction have moved online. It is broadly recognized that the rise of all of these different types of content (static and dynamic, and increasingly multimedia) has been one of the main forces behind the phenomenal growth of the Internet, and its emergence as essential infrastructure for how individuals across the globe gain access to the content sources they want. To accelerate the delivery of diverse content in the Internet and to provide commercial-grade performance for video delivery and the Web, Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) were introduced. This paper describes the current CDN ecosystem and the forces that have driven its evolution. We outline the different CDN architectures and consider their relative strengths and weaknesses. Our analysis highlights the role of location, the growing complexity of the CDN ecosystem, and their relationship to and implications for interconnection markets.     

电力施工企业：机遇与挑战并存

主辅分离,将电力施工企业推向了电力体制改革的前沿。电力施工企业必须不断加强自身建设,提高市场竞争意识和竞争实力,以便与主业剥离后,能够独立地适应市场竞争环境