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Virtual R&D Teams in Small and Medium Enterprises: A Literature Review Nader Ale Ebrahim , Shamsuddin Ahmed, Zahari Taha Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are the driving engine behind economic growth. While SMEs play a critical role in generating employment and supporting trade, they face numerous challenges, the prominent among them are the need to respond to fasting time-to-market, low-cost and rapid solutions to complex organizational problems. Towards that end, research and development (R&D) ... Published in 2010.

Modified Stage-Gate: A Conceptual Model of Virtual Product Development Process Nader Ale Ebrahim , Shamsuddin Ahmad, Zahari Taha In today's dynamic marketplace, manufacturing companies are under strong pressure to introduce new products for long-term survival with their competitors. Nevertheless, every company cannot cope up progressively or immediately with the market requirements due to knowledge dynamics being experienced in the competitive milieu. Increased competition and reduced product life cycles put force upon companies to develop new products ... Published in 2009.

Thanks for posting a good synopsis creativity and virtual team. i have written a series of papers on the topic of virtual teams (Please see the link http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=1379350) in three articles “Innovation and R&D Activities in Virtual Team” , “Virtual Environments Innovation and R&D Activities: Management Challenges” and “Innovation Process is Facilitated in Virtual Environment of R&D Teams” I tr to explore the relationship between creativity and virtual team. Recently I did an empirical study in two developing countries and bold the advantages of virtual teams which is far beyond of its pitfalls (please check the link http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1688934).

The number of small and medium enterprises (SMEs), especially those involved with research and development (R&D) programs and employed virtual teams to create the greatest competitive advantage from limited labor are increasing. Global and localized virtual R&D teams are believed to have high potential for the growth of SMEs. Due to the fast-growing complexity of new products coupled with new emerging opportunities of virtual teams, a collaborative approach is believed to be the future trend. This research explores the effectiveness of virtuality in SMEs` virtual R&D teams. Online questionnaires were emailed to Malaysian manufacturing SMEs and 74 usable questionnaires were received, representing a 20.8 percent return rate. In order to avoid biases which may result from pre-suggested answers, a series of open-ended questions were retrieved from the experts. This study was focused on analyzing an open-ended question, whereby four main themes were extracted from the experts` recommendations regarding the effectiveness of virtual teams for the growth and performance of SMEs. The findings of this study would be useful to product design managers of SMEs in order to realize the key advantages and significance of virtual R&D teams during the new product development (NPD) process. This is turn, leads to increased effectiveness in new product development`s procedure.

Special Issue Section : The Effectiveness of Virtual R&D Teams in SMEs: Experiences of Malaysian SMEs - 발행기관 대한산업공학회 - 발행정보 IEMS , 10 권 , 2 호 , Startpage 109 , Endpage 114, Totalpage 6 - 저자 ( Nader Ale Ebrahim ) , ( Salwa Hanim Abdul Rashid ) , ( Shamsuddin Ahmed ) , ( Zahari Taha ) - 가격 3,000 원 - 발행년도 2011 - 주제키워드 Virtual Teams, New Product Development, Survey Finding, Small and Medium Enterprises

Special Issue Section : The Effectiveness of Virtual R&D Teams in SMEs: Experiences of Malaysian SMEs

( Nader Ale Ebrahim ) , ( Salwa Hanim Abdul Rashid ) , ( Shamsuddin Ahmed ) , ( Zahari Taha )

( Nader Ale Ebrahim ) , ( Salwa Hanim Abdul Rashid ) , ( Shamsuddin Ahmed ) , ( Zahari Taha )

Full Length Research Paper Virtual R&D teams and SMEs growth: A comparative study between Iranian and Malaysian SMEs – Ale Ebrahim, Nader Ahmed, Nader Ale Ebrahim, Shamsuddin Ahmed, Zahari Taha - 2010 SMEs; Virtual research and development (R&D) teams and new product development: A literature review – Smes Virtual Research, D Teams, Nader Ale Ebrahim, Shamsuddin Ahmed, Zahari Taha - 2010 2 SMEs and Virtual R&D Teams: A Motive Channel for Relationship between SMEs – Nader Ale Ebrahim, Shamsuddin Ahmed, Zahari Taha - 2008 Virtual R&D Teams for NPD in SMEs: Past, Present and Future Trend – Nader Ale Ebrahim, Shamsudin Ahmed, Zahari Taha Envisages of New Product Developments in Small and Medium Enterprises through Virtual Team – Nader Ale Ebrahim, Shamsuddin Ahmed, Zahari Taha - 2010 The Effectiveness of Virtual R&D Teams in SMEs: Experiences of Malaysian SMEs – Nader Ale Ebrahim, Shamsuddin Ahmed, Salwa Hanim, Abdul Rashid, Zahari Taha - 2010 1 Critical factors for new product developments in SMEs virtual team – Nader Ale Ebrahim, Shamsuddin Ahmed, Zahari Taha - 2010 Virtual Teams: A New Opportunity to Develop a Business – Nader Ale Ebrahim, Shamsuddin Ahmed, Salwa Hanim, Abdul Rashid, Zahari Taha R&D Networking and value Creation in SMEs – Nader Ale Ebrahim, Shamsuddin Ahmed, Zahari Taha 2011 2nd International Conference on Mechanical, Industrial, and Manufacturing Technologies (MIMT 2011) Virtual Collaborative R&D Teams in Malaysia Manufacturing SMEs – Nader Ale Ebrahim, Shamsuddin Ahmed, Hanim Abdul Rashid, M. A. Wazed 1 Dealing with Virtual R&D Teams in New Product Development – Nader Ale Ebrahim, Shamsuddin Ahmed, Zahari Taha Virtual Environments Innovation and R&D Activities: Management Challenges – Nader Ale Ebrahim, Shamsuddin Ahmed, Zahari Taha Virtual R&D Teams: A potential growth of education-industry collaboration – Nader Ale Ebrahim, Shamsuddin Ahmed, Salwa Hanim, Abdul Rashid, Zahari Taha New Product Development in Virtual Environment – Nader Ale Ebrahim, Shamsuddin Ahmed, Zahari Taha - 2008 Benefits and Pitfalls of Virtual R&D Teams: An Empirical Study – Nader Ale Ebrahim, Shamsuddin Ahmed, Zahari Taha - 2010 Virtual Teams for NPD – an Innovative Experience for R&D Engineers – Nader Ale Ebrahim, Shamsuddin Ahmed, Zahari Taha 2 Innovation and R&D Activities in Virtual Team – Nader Ale Ebrahim, Shamsuddin Ahmed, Zahari Taha Concurrent Collaboration in Research and Development – Nader Ale Ebrahim, Shamsuddin Ahmed, Zahari Taha Virtual R&D team: Technology Transfer Facilitator – Nader Ale Ebrahim, Mohammad Ali Shafia, Hamid Tahbaz Tavakoli - 2009

A conceptual model is proposed which facilitate the process of technology transfer by applying a virtual R&D team. The underlying hypothesis is responded to competitive challenges, the complex customer requirements and the high instability on the market. The context of the knowledge-based economy introduces a major shift from serial to simultaneous R&D activities in the way technology transfer is conceived. The traditional model of R&D team work is relies on the visual and face-to-face teams. The complexities involved in organizing face-to-face interactions among team members from one side, and the rapid developments of electronic communication technologies from the other,caused firms to turn towards employing virtual R&D teams. The paper postulates that in the new perspective, virtual R&D team to be considered as a specific technology transfer means. It depends on the ways firms and other institutions are managing them, in particular the co-evolution of their absorptive capabilities and their technology conveying strategies. To support the theoretical analysis, this paper provides a comprehensive review based on authentic and reputed publications.

Virtual R&D Teams in Small and Medium Enterprises: A Literature Review Scientific Research and Essays, Vol. 4, No. 13, pp. 1575–1590, December 2009, Nader Ale Ebrahim , Shamsuddin Ahmed and Zahari Taha University of Malaya - Department of Engineering Design and Manufacture, Faculty of Engineering , University of Malaya (UM) and University of Malaya (UM) Date Posted: January 05, 2010 Last Revised: February 02, 2010 Accepted Paper Series 282 downloads

Virtual Teams and Management Challenges 1st Executive MBA Conference, Tehran, Iran, May 18-19, 2009 Nader Ale Ebrahim , Shamsuddin Ahmed and Zahari Taha University of Malaya - Department of Engineering Design and Manufacture, Faculty of Engineering , University of Malaya (UM) and University of Malaya (UM) Date Posted: January 13, 2011 Accepted Paper Series 43 downloads

Consideration of the Virtual Team Work and Disabled Citizens, as Promising Opportunity Providers for the E-Government Infrastructure's Formation Second Conference on Electronic City, 2009 Mohammad Ali Shafia , Nader Ale Ebrahim , Shamsuddin Ahmed and Zahari Taha University of Science and Technology - Faculty of Industrial Engineering , University of Malaya - Department of Engineering Design and Manufacture, Faculty of Engineering , University of Malaya (UM) and University of Malaya (UM) Date Posted: January 13, 2011 Accepted Paper Series 18 downloads