Managing delegated search over design spaces

Management Science

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 606-623

  Erat, Sanjiv ^a   Krishnan, Vish ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Clustering; Open innovation; Product design; Research and development; Search

Indexed keywords

CLUSTERING; DESIGN PROBLEMS; DESIGN SPACES; OPEN INNOVATION; PROBLEM SPECIFICATION; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT; SEARCH; SEARCH PROCESS; SOLUTION SPACE; STRONGLY SUBLINEAR;

PRODUCT DESIGN; SPECIFICATIONS;

INDUSTRY;

EID: 84861390431     PISSN: 00251909     EISSN: 15265501     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.1110.1418     Document Type: Article

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