Quality and Time-to-Market Trade-offs when There Are Multiple Product Generations

Manufacturing and Service Operations Management

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 89-104

  Morgan, Leslie Olin ^a   Morgan, Ruskin M ^a   Moore, William L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

Development Intensity; Development Cycle Time; New Product Development

Indexed keywords

EID: 0141909348     PISSN: 15234614     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/msom.3.2.89.9991     Document Type: Article

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