Virtual R&D Teams

Definition of SMEs Malaysia adopted a common definition of SMEs to facilitate identification of SMEs in the various sectors and subsectors. This has facilitated the Government to formulate effective development policies, support programmes as well as provision of technical and financial assistance. An enterprise is considered an SME in each of the respective sectors based on the Annual Sales Turnover or Number of Full-Time Employees as shown in the table below. Micro-enterprise Small enterprise Medium enterprise Manufacturing, Manufacturing-Related Services and Agro-based industries Sales turnover of less than RM250,000 OR full time employess less than 5 Sales turnover between RM250,000 and less than RM10 million OR full time employees between 5 and 50 Sales turnover between RM10 million and RM25 million OR full time employees between 51 and 150 Services, Primary Agriculture and Information & Communication Technology (ICT) Sales turnover of less than RM200,000 OR full time employees less than 5 Sales turnover between RM200,000 and less than RM1 million OR full time employees between 5 and 19 Sales turnover between RM1 million and RM5 million OR full time employees between 20 and 50

Definition of SMEs Malaysia adopted a common definition of SMEs to facilitate identification of SMEs in the various sectors and subsectors. This has facilitated the Government to formulate effective development policies, support programmes as well as provision of technical and financial assistance. An enterprise is considered an SME in each of the respective sectors based on the Annual Sales Turnover or Number of Full-Time Employees as shown in the table below. Micro-enterprise Small enterprise Medium enterprise Manufacturing, Manufacturing-Related Services and Agro-based industries Sales turnover of less than RM250,000 OR full time employess less than 5 Sales turnover between RM250,000 and less than RM10 million OR full time employees between 5 and 50 Sales turnover between RM10 million and RM25 million OR full time employees between 51 and 150 Services, Primary Agriculture and Information & Communication Technology (ICT) Sales turnover of less than RM200,000 OR full time employees less than 5 Sales turnover between RM200,000 and less than RM1 million OR full time employees between 5 and 19 Sales turnover between RM1 million and RM5 million OR full time employees between 20 and 50

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