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  • Collaborative new product development and the supplier/client relationship: cases from the furniture industry
    Publication . Silva, Luís Filipe Reis; Moreira, Antonio; Carcia-Alcaraz, J. L.; Alor-Hernández, G.; Maldonado-Macias, A. A.; Sánchez-Ramírez, C.
    The main goal of this chapter is to identify the procedures and management methods used by firms of the furniture industry on collaborative new product development (CNPD) involving supplier–customer relationships. Using a qualitative methodology involving the analysis of eight firms, it is possible to conclude that: (1) the majority of the firms studied use throughout their R&D activities the principles of open innovation; (2) the wood and metallic furniture industries present divergent characteristics concerning the coordination and management of resources associated with CNPD; (3) all firms encourage the involvement of the suppliers in the CNPD process; (4) the management procedures used during the CNPD process are directly related to the size of the firms and the sub-sector they operate; (5) the CNPD process is underpinned by the business relationships between all the parties involved, as well as by the type of products, type of industry, and size of the firms; (6) there are differences in the CNPD processes between firms from the wood furniture industry and firms from the metallic furniture industry.
    2017Capítulo de livro Acesso restrito Ver mais
  • Single minute exchange of die and organizational innovation in seven small and medium-sized firms
    Publication . Moreira, Antonio; Carcia-Alcaraz, J. L.; Maldonado-Macias, A. A.; Cortes-Robles, G.
    Innovation plays a very important role in businesses competitiveness. As Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) stem for more than 95 % of the industrial fabric in the developed world, the improvement of the industrial production or the provision of a service are key to increase their productivity and competitiveness. The Single Minute Exchange of Die (SMED) is a Japanese process-based innovative methodology that involves the separation and conversion of internal setup operations into external ones. The SMED makes it possible for firms to reduce their lead times and to eliminate wastefulness during changeover activities. Although organizational innovation is a very important tool, it plays a silent role in productivity improvement, as it is less tangible than product or process innovation. Moreover, studies about SMED implementation and how teams have managed to achieve their results are still very limited among SMEs. The main objective of this chapter is to provide the results of seven projects involving business-university partnerships addressing this understudied topic: SMED implementation and organizational innovation in SMEs. The main finding of this study is that all firms managed to improve their setup times, although the results vary extensively. From the organizational innovation point of view, only one firm failed to intertwine the initiation and the implementation stages. Although all firms have initiation-implementation routines, there are clear differences among them. As a result, although it is possible to claim that all SMEs analyzed are ambidextrous organizations, their initiation-implementation routines, deserve deeper comprehension.
    2014Capítulo de livro Acesso restrito Ver mais