Design for location? The impact of manufacturing offshore on technology competitiveness in the optoelectronics industry

Management Science

Volumn 56, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 2323-2349

  Fuchs, Erica ^a   Kirchain, Randolph ^b  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Design for manufacturing; International; Product development; Technology choice

Indexed keywords

COMPETING DESIGNS; COMPUTING MARKETS; COST EFFECTIVE; DESIGN FOR MANUFACTURING; EAST ASIA; ECONOMIC CONSTRAINTS; EMPIRICAL DATA; INTERNATIONAL; LOCATION DECISIONS; LONG TERM; MOORE'S LAW; OPTOELECTRONIC COMPONENTS; OPTOELECTRONICS INDUSTRY; PERFORMANCE CHARACTERISTICS; PRODUCTION ECONOMICS; PRODUCTION ENVIRONMENTS; PRODUCTION LOCATIONS; SIMULATION MODELING; TECHNOLOGY CHOICE; TELECOM MARKET;

COMMERCE; COMPETITION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; INDUSTRY; LOCATION; MANUFACTURE; PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT; TECHNOLOGY;

DESIGN;

EID: 78650402375     PISSN: 00251909     EISSN: 15265501     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.1100.1227     Document Type: Article

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