Impact of economic and technical uncertainties on dynamic new product development

IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 157-168

  Yao, Tao ^a   Jiang, Bin ^b   Liu, Hongcheng ^a  

^a The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

^b DEPAUL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

New product development (NPD); project management; repeated real options; stochastic differential equation

Indexed keywords

DECISION-MAKING RULES; DYNAMIC PROCESS; INCREMENTAL INNOVATION; INVESTMENT DECISIONS; NEW PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT; ON DYNAMICS; RADICAL INNOVATION; REAL OPTIONS; STOCHASTIC DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS;

INDUSTRY; INVESTMENTS; PROJECT MANAGEMENT;

PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 84872678673     PISSN: 00189391     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TEM.2012.2187061     Document Type: Article

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