Implementation Dynamics (ID): Recent submissions
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Drive Out Fear (Unless You Can Drive It In):The role of agency and job security in process improvement
(1998-11)Understanding the wide range of outcomes achieved by firms trying to implement TQM and similar process improvement initiatives presents a challenge to management science and organization theory: a few firms reap sustained ... -
Understanding Fire Fighting in New Product Development
(2001-03)Despite documented benefits, the processes described in the new product development literature often prove difficult to follow in practice. A principal source of such difficulties is the phenomenon of fire fighting the ... -
Why Firefighting Is Never Enough: Preserving High-Quality Product Development
(2000)Understanding the wide range of outcomes achieved by firms trying to implement TQM and similar process improvement initiatives presents a challenge to management science and organization theory: a few firms reap sustained ...