Beyond cost: Product complexity and the global product development location advantage

DS 58-3: Proceedings of ICED 09, the 17th International Conference on Engineering Design

Volumn 3, Issue , 2009, Pages 25-36

  Makumbe, Pedzi ^a   Seering, Warren ^a   Rebentisch, Eric ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

Capability; Complexity; Engineering workforce; Global product development; Labor cost and market growth rate; Location advantage; Market size

Indexed keywords

CAPABILITY; COMPLEXITY; GLOBAL PRODUCTS; LABOR COST AND MARKET GROWTH RATE; MARKET SIZES;

COMMERCE; COST ACCOUNTING; EMPLOYMENT; PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT; WAGES;

PRODUCT DESIGN;

EID: 84859240057     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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