Browsing MIT Sociotechnical Systems Research Center (SSRC) by Title
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Collaborative Systems Thinking: Uncovering the Rules of Team-level Systems Thinking
(2009-03-25)IEEE International Systems Conference presentation -
Committee Jurisdiction and Internet Intellectual Property Protection
(2002-07-22)This paper examines the impact of increasingly common congressional committee jurisdictional turf wars on policy outcomes. It develops a theoretical model that shows how legislators balance the benefits of expanded ... -
Commonality in complex product families : implications of divergence and lifecycle offsets
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)Commonality, or the sharing of components, processes, technologies, interfaces and/or infrastructure across a product family, represents one of many potential tools for increasing corporate profitability. Industrial interest ... -
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A comparative analysis of supply chain management practices by Boeing and Airbus : long-term strategic implications
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)The goal of this research is to develop an improved understanding of supply chain management strategies and practices being pursued by Boeing and Airbus in the 787 Dreamliner and the A380 Navigator programs, respectively, ... -
Comparative Analysis of Supply Chain Management Practices by Boeing and Airbus: Long-Term Strategic Implications
(2007-04-18)Research Goals and Approach: Goals - • Develop an improved understanding of emerging supply chain management strategies and practices in the commercial aerospace industry • Explore the longer-term implications of the ... -
Comparative Deregulation of Far Eastern Telecommunications Markets: Economic Incentives and International Competitive Strategies
(1997-09)The deregulation of telecommunications has taken a major step with the WTO agreements in February of this year. Namely, each of the major Far Eastern countries has agreed to open their market in some form of planned ... -
Competing in a Lean World: Responding to the Pressures of Free Trade and Lean Production
(1996-04-16)Much of the literature on free trade in North America as dealt with two issues: first, the details of the Canada-US Free Trade Agreement(CAFTA) and the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and the processes through ... -
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Complementary and Cost Reduction: Evidence from the Auto Supply Industry
(2002-07-11)Over the last 20 years, the success of Japanese manufacturing firms has brought renewed attention to the importance of cost reduction on existing products as a source of productivity growth. This paper uses survey data ...