Warren B. Brown

• Professor Emeritus at University of Oregon

Managing with a green mindset seems on its way to becoming the norm in American business, ensuring better truck with society and the environment. Can improved competitiveness be far off?

This study explored the problem of compressing new product development by focusing on the specific phases of the innovation process. These phases manifest significant qualitative differences that require attention for understanding the complexities of accelerating new product development. Based on data from 35 high-technology companies, Necmi Karag...

Industrial competitiveness can be evaluated in many ways, but for high-tech firms no measure is more important than that of getting new products into their relevant markets ahead of the competition. Especially for companies with technology-driven products, where technological obsolescence compounds the problems of head-to-head competition, speed-to...

Recent concerns over national and corporate competitiveness have stimulated a renewed interest in the measurement of R&D productivity. However, the complexity of measurement problems in R&D organizations has resulted in a situation where there is a scarcity of generally accepted techniques. The authors review the major measurement issues connected...

A systems framework is developed for synthesizing the major themes of previous research of technological innovation. The focus is on two specific types of input to innovation systems: decision inputs and implementation inputs. Each of these input categories is examined in detail, and interactions among their components are investigated. Broader rel...

Over time, most corporate managements face the necessity of adapting their organizations to new environments. The style of such adaptation depends both on the original strategy of the company and its new objectives and environment. Necmi Karagozoglu and Warren Brown report the results of research which explores the changes in the organization's rat...

A growing body of research has documented the role of select users and customers in influencing the design of new products. A major impetus for this study was the observation that practitioners, as well as professionals in research and development groups, are an important source in the production and dissemination of knowledge for innovation. Nevil...

Problems of research in technological innovation are often based on limited perspectives, e.g., studies with only a macro or micro focus. This paper discusses the limitations of such approaches, and then develops a multilevel, multiphase framework for such research by utilizing five hierarchical levels: Government, industry, organization, subunit a...

A review of previous studies on the relationship between boundary spanning activity and environment indicates that the full effects of environment have not been investigated due to the restricted representation of environmental effects. In addition, we argue that the boundary spanning-environment relationship may be moderated by function, hierarchi...

This study empirically examines the relationship between perceived environmental uncertainty and the information search behavior of managers in organizational boundary-spanning positions. It tests hypotheses related to the perceived importance managers attach to external, internal, formal, and informal information sources, as environmental uncertai...

The purpose of this paper is to present the methodology and results of an experiment performed with a group of public agency executives in order to capture an agency-wide priorityutility function. A method based on the Churchman-Ackoff-Arnoff successive comparisons approach was developed for easy administration to the policy makers. The results pro...

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