جستجوی مقالات مرتبط با کلیدواژه "catch-up process" در نشریات گروه "مدیریت"

Possessing product technologies is an inevitable necessity for a catch-up. Latecomers must strengthen their design capabilities to enter the innovation stage. A part of the design capabilities is created by developing and applying product technologies. Despite this necessity, most methods and tools for formulating technology strategy focus on process technologies (embedded in the company's value chain) and ignore product technologies. A precise conceptualization of the relationship between the product technologies and the design capabilities is also required. In this article, while separating product and process technologies, the relationship between design capabilities and product technologies is explained. Also, using the "design thinking" approach, a method for formulating a technology strategy is presented, in which both product and process technologies are considered. The implementation of the proposed method is shown with a practical example of 230-320 MW generators. Using the focus group, the validity of the method has been evaluated. The applicability of the method has been shown by implementing it in 21 subsidiaries of the Mapna group. The theoretical contribution and practical application of the research are discussed and further research is suggested.

The focus of this study is on how the technological capabilities of the latecomer firms accumulate in the catch-up process. Literature study suggests that no comprehensive and integrated model specifies the technological capabilities of each catch-up phase. Therefore, the present study aims to fill this research gap. The main contribution of this study is to identify the dedicated technological capabilities in each catch-up stage. By comparing and combining the current findings in the literature during the years 1980 to 2018 with the meta-synthesis method, the following question is investigated: "What are the technological capabilities at each phase of the catch-up process?" The main findings of this study include summarizing the technological capability definitions, introducing the main pillars of technological capability conceptualization, collecting various typologies of technological capability, comparing different phases of the catch-up process, extracting the hierarchical structure of technological capability, and assigning each technological capability to its dedicated phase.  Given the findings of this study and the specific contextual conditions of the firm, managers can customize this framework for improving technological capabilities. This firm-specific roadmap specifies which technological capabilities should be developed and upgraded at which time frame.