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Product development benchmarking versus customer focus in applications of quality function deployment
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 1994-04)
The study explores the tradeoff between efforts to benchmark on product-development practices and be customer focused in the implementation of a quality-improvement method. The results of a survey of thirty-three firms' ...
Examining the Market Orientation-Performance Relationship: A Context-Specific Study
(Sage Publications, 1998)
This study developed a comprehensive measure of market orientation and examined the market orientation-performance relationship in the health care industry. A survey of 159 hospitals yielded a strong positive relationship ...
Reading the wind: how middle managers assess the context for selling issues to top managers
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 1997-05)
Issue selling is an important mechanism for creating change initiatives in organizations. This paper presents two studies that examine what middle managers think about as they decide whether or not to sell strategic issues ...
Interactive computer modules for undergraduate chemical engineering instruction
(John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1992)
Interactive computer modules have been developed for four of the core courses in the Chemical Engineering curriculum: Introduction to Chemical Engineering, Fluids/Transport, Separations, and Kinetics. These modules generally ...
Work–family conflicts of women in the Air Force: their influence on mental health and functioning
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 1999-11)
This paper examined the effects of work and family stressors and conflicts on Air Force women's mental health and functioning. We analyzed data from a 1993 survey of representative stratified samples of 525 Air Force women ...
Economic incentives in software design
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 1993-11)
I examine the incentives for software providers to design appropriate user interfaces. There are two sorts of costs involved when one uses software: the fixed cost of learning to use a piece of software and the variable ...
Thermal error modelling for real-time error compensation
(Springer-Verlag; Springer-Verlag London Limited, 1996-07)
A modelling strategy for the prediction of both the scalar and the position-dependent thermal error components is presented. Two types of empirical modelling method based on the multiple regression analysis (MRA) and the ...
Market segmentation with choice-based conjoint analysis
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 1995-03)
Choice-based conjoint analysis has increased in popularity in recent years among marketing practitioners. The typical practice is to estimate choice-based conjoint models at the aggregate level, given insufficient data for ...
The effects of excise taxes and regulations on cigarette smoking
(Elsevier, 1991-05)
We estimate a generalized linear model to examine adult and teenage cigarette demand. Our analysis focuses on the extent to which exice taxes and regulations restricting smoking in public places affect cigarette consumption. ...