Economic perspectives on the development of complex products for increasingly demanding customers

Research Policy

Volumn 39, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1122-1132

  Earl, Peter E ^a   Wakeley, Tim ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Behavioural; Capabilities; Characteristics; Heuristics; Hierarchical; Preferences

Indexed keywords

BOUNDED RATIONALITY; COMPLEX PRODUCTS; ECONOMIC PERSPECTIVE; EVOLUTIONARY ECONOMICS; PRODUCT CHARACTERISTICS; PRODUCTION THEORY;

PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT; SALES;

ECONOMICS;

EID: 77955425329     PISSN: 00487333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.respol.2010.05.006     Document Type: Article

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