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Managing sequential innovation: Prod...

Ramachandran, Karthik.

Managing sequential innovation: Product design, sourcing and distribution decisions.

紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : 單行本
正題名/作者:	Managing sequential innovation: Product design, sourcing and distribution decisions./
作者:	Ramachandran, Karthik.
面頁冊數:	190 p.
附註:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 68-09, Section: A, page: 3955.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International68-09A.
標題:	Business Administration, Management. -
電子資源:	Download PDF (下載PDF全文)
ISBN:	9780549171782

Managing sequential innovation: Product design, sourcing and distribution decisions.
Ramachandran, Karthik.

Managing sequential innovation: Product design, sourcing and distribution decisions. - 190 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 68-09, Section: A, page: 3955.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Texas at Austin, 2007.

Sequential Innovation involves the serial commercialization of improving products based on technologies that improve over time. In many industries such as semiconductors, electronics and computers, fundamental advances have presented firms with opportunities to substantially improve their product's capabilities in very short periods of time. Customers who invest in these products may, however, react adversely to rapid improvements that obsolete their previously purchased products. In the case of breakthrough products that create categories of their own, potential consumers might even be unaware of their own valuation for new products. In this dissertation, I identify and analyze some means by which a firm can engage in sequential innovation in the face of such apprehensions. In particular, I focus on three aspects of product development that have important implications for its eventual success in the market: product design, sourcing of components and distribution channels.

ISBN: 9780549171782Subjects--Topical Terms:

1000005542
Business Administration, Management.

Managing sequential innovation: Product design, sourcing and distribution decisions.
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