Peer Evaluation : Critical Factors for New Product Developments in SMEs Virtual Team

Critical Factors for New Product Developments in SMEs Virtual Team

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Title : Critical Factors for New Product Developments in SMEs Virtual Team
Author(s) : Nader Ale Ebrahim

Abstract : Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are considered as an engine for economic growth all over the world and especially for developing countries. During the past decade, new product development (NPD) has increasingly been recognized as a critical factor in ensuring the continued survival of SMEs. On the other hand, the rapid rate of market and technological changes has accelerated in the past decade, so this turbulent environment requires new methods and techniques to bring successful new products to the marketplace. Virtual team can be a solution to answer the requested demand. However, literature have shown no significant differences between traditional NPD and virtual NPD in general, whereas NPD in SME’s virtual team has not been systematically investigated in developing countries. This paper aims to bridge this gap by first reviewing the NPD and its relationship with virtuality and then identifies the critical factors of NPD in virtual teams. The statistical method was utilized to perform the required analysis of data from the survey. The results were achieved through factor analysis at the perspective of NPD in some Malaysian and Iranian manufacturing firms (N = 191). The 20 new product development factors were grouped into five higher level constructs. It gives valuable insight and guidelines, which hopefully will help managers of firms in developing countries to consider the main factors in NPD.

Keywords : Survey findings, new product development, factor analysis, virtual team

Subject : Technology Management
Area : Management
Language : English
Year : 2010

Affiliations :

Research Support Unit, Centre of Research Services, Institute of Research Management and Monitoring (IPPP), University of Malaya, Malaysia

Journal : African Journal of Business Management
Volume : 4
Issue : 11
Publisher : Academic Journals
Pages : 2247-2257
Isbn : 1993-8233

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Peer Evaluation : Critical Factors for New Product Developments in SMEs Virtual Team