Organizational integration for product development: The effects on glitches, on-time execution of engineering change orders, and market success

Decision Sciences

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 49-80

  Koufteros, Xenophon A ^a   Rawski, Greg E ^b   Rupak, Rauniar ^c  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EVANSVILLE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ST THOMAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Customer integration; Market success; Organizational integration; Product development; Product glitches; Structural equation modeling; Supplier integration

Indexed keywords

EID: 77950327652     PISSN: 00117315     EISSN: 15405915     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-5915.2009.00259.x     Document Type: Article

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