While recent literature underlines the importance of collaborations in product development,
and many studies analyse its applications, this subject is constantly developing and has the …

Concerns about sustainability matters have been growing significantly during the last
decades. The triple bottom line approach–an often applied operationalization of …

Collaboration between buyer and the supplier has been widely studied in the contemporary
research to enhance the efficiency of the product development process. Early involvement of …

The fuzzy front end (FFE) of new product development (NPD), ie the phase preceding the
formal product development, is characterized by ill-defined processes, ad-hoc decisions …

This study investigates the temporal structural transitions of automobile supply networks
where, under situations with various possible risks such as economic crises and market …

Efficient new product concept screening plays an important role in new product development
(NPD). Due to the inherent complexity, incompleteness and ambiguity in NPD, fuzzy …

This study aims to examine the changing nature of automaker-supplier relationships with
special emphasis on strategic knowledge sharing. Nowadays, production increasingly …

This article presents a methodology applicable to the formation of collaborative bill-of-
materials (C-BOM), coordinating production scheduling and monitoring operational …

Firm networking is becoming more and more the most important competitive strength in
nowadays competitive environment. Such an evidence is partially neglected by the classical …

Increasing demands on the flexibility of assembly workers has led to numerous times of high
exposure rates within one workday. Inflexible processing times in synchronized assembly …