我國傳統產業的發展由早期台灣經濟的中流砥柱，歷經產業變革、環保意識抬頭打壓後，至今被戲稱為「夕陽產業」，主因為產品生命週期進入低毛利成熟期。大部分傳統產業廠家積極尋求多角化轉型以突破困境，但在無法抽離製造代工心態下，積極投入非核心相關領域，無非是落入另一紅海。目前支撐台灣主要經濟命脈產業仍以資訊科技業為主，傳統產業雖非主流，但改變製造心態，堅持投入核心技術研發仍能伺機尋求切入點。 然而，過去強調創新升級轉型的研究不勝枚舉，但鮮少以國內傳統產業模範廠商為個案進行完整詳細地分析，基於此點，本研究針對我國傳統產業廠商「多角化」進行研究，以企業核心資源為基礎，試圖以較為整體性的架構，探討其多角化之相關議題，期能對「傳統產業多角化」，提供一些實務上與學理上的貢獻。 本研究之研究問題有五：（1）傳統產業廠商多角化的動機為何？（2）傳統產業廠商如何進行多角化？（3）傳統產業廠商企業核心資源為何？（4）傳統產業廠商多角化過程中新產品開發流程為何？（5）傳統產業廠商多角化後的新創組織作法為何？ 透過深度訪談個案公司高階經理人，並配合相關次級資料蒐集與整理，進行彙整及分析之後，本研究獲得以下之主要結論：（1）企業核心資源中之個人專長能力的展現為多角化轉型基礎；（2）創新研發過程中，知識資源的累積是技術發展的原動力；（3）順暢的組織內部溝通有助於新產品或新事業的發展；（4）對新產品開發而言，技術資源的彈性運用與高度整合有利於發展新事業；（5）以創新研發為導向之企業與智慧財產權之管理具高度關聯性。 / The domestic conventional industries were the mainstay of Taiwan economics. Because of the transformation of industries and then suffered from the lift of environmental consciousness. It ultimately turned to be the so-called “Sunset Industries”. The root cause was the low margin profit in mature stage of product life cycle. Most of conventional industries firms strove to break through the hardship by diversification. Not to withdraw the ideology from OEM mindset, the conventional industry firms invested in non-core relevant businesses painstakingly. It was just trapped to another red sea. For the moment, the dominant anchor of Taiwan economics was information technologies not the conventional industries. Nevertheless, just switched the manufacturing viewpoint and persevered to the development of core technologies to look for the niche points. Although, the studies in the past focused on innovative upgrading transformation were too numerous and there was scarcely to portray the leading company elaborately in domestic conventional industries. Based on this concept, the thesis paid attention to the study of diversification of domestic conventional industries. Endeavor to apply the comprehensive framework which was founded on the core resources of enterprises and discussed the correlative issues of diversification. Looking forward to the diversification of conventional industries could facilitate the contributions in practical and theoretical domain. The study aimed to investigate the questions: (1) What were the motivations drove the conventional industry firms to diversify? (2) How the conventional industry firms to execute the diversification? (3) What were the core resources of conventional industry firms? (4) What was the procedure of new product development in conventional industry firms during the duration of diversification? (5) What were the practices to construct the new business unit after diversification in conventional industry firms? This study exerted the deep interview methodology of qualitative researches and secondary data analyses to rearrange. The preliminary research findings included: (1) The performance of individual capability in enterprise core resources was the foundation of diversification. (2) During the innovative R&D process, the accumulation of knowledge resource was the motivation of technology of development. (3) The fluent communication in organization was conducive to develop the new products or new businesses. (4) As far as the new product development was concerned, the flexible exertion and high integration of technology resources was favorable for integrating and exploring new businesses. (5) Innovative R&D oriented enterprises were in high connection with management of intellectual property rights.

廣受日式企業採用之目標成本制，提早於產品設計、開發時即檢討成本降低的可能性，並以產品生命週期為考量，有效降低成本。不但為一有效降低成本之技法，更為企業利潤規劃之利器。 有系統、具彈性的新產品開發流程是影響產品獲利的重要關鍵，目前大部分企業已不再採取傳統的接力賽式新產品開發流程，而偏向於橄欖球之方式運作，因此跨功能團隊之合作極為重要，而在目標成本制之下，會計人員更為團隊中之重要成員，其所從事之作業將影響目標成本制之順利實施。為深入了解採行目標成本制之不同公司其新產品開發流程以及會計人員作業之差異，本研究以裕隆與中華兩家汽車企業為個案對象。 研究結果如下： 一、裕隆與中華兩企業之新產品開發流程其基本架構上相同。惟兩家公司 偏重的策略有所不同，故在概念發想者、可行性分析、目標成本控管 情形有所差異。 二、目標成本制下，會計人員於新產品開發流程所從事之作業包含「目標 成本之訂定、展開與控管」、「對策略之了解與跨功能團隊合作」、 「資本支出分析、相關法令與匯率資訊之提供」、「成本資訊之提供 」以及「編製相關財務報表」等五個因素構面。 三、兩企業認為會計人員於新產品開發流程從事之作業有相同亦有不同之 處，其會受到兩企業所偏重的策略所影響。 四、會計人員與非會計人員對於會計人員所從事之作業無太大歧見，皆達 成共識，有助於目標成本制之順利運作。 / Target costing is widely adopted by Japanese enterprises. It advances the time of cost-down evaluation to the product design and development stage. By considering into the product life cycle, it lowers the cost effectively. Therefore, for enterprises target costing is not only an effective means of cost reduction but also an useful method of profit projection. A systematic and flexible new product development (NPD) process is the key of profitability of the product. Most enterprises have abandoned the traditional sequential phases of NPD for overlapping phases of development. In overlapping phases of development, cooperation between cross-functional teams is important. Among all, accountants are especially essential because their work affects the practice of target costing. In order to further understand the differences of NPD process and accountant’s activities in different companies, this study has conducted case studies of Yulon and China-motor. The conclusions of this study are: 1.Yulon and China-motor basically adopt the same NPD process. However, the strategies emphasized are different, which cause differences in the idea generator generating, feasibility analysis and the management of target cost. 2.Under target costing, the accountant’s activities in the NPD process include “setting, allocating, controlling and managing the target cost”, “understanding the strategies and cooperating with other participators in cross-functional team”, “analyzing the capital expenditure and providing related law and foreign currency information”, “providing the cost information” and “preparing related financial statements”. 3.The defined roles of accountants in NPD in both enterprises are influenced by their selected strategies. 4.The consensus of accountant’s activities between the accountants and other team members is helpful to the practice of target costing.

在經濟全球化的後金融危機時代中，技術財產權的交易對於推動產業升級，推動新產品及市場發展和進一步推動技術移轉成對現實生產力仍然具有重要市場貢獻的實際意義。不斷豐富技術財產權交易的商業化方法及流程後充分發揮技術財產權交易在市場的領先及先發地位。本研究著重在技術移轉的成功關鍵因素之研究，所以會同時考量到技術應用、市場需求及供應鏈等方面的議題。另外，政府研究機構與企業間的技術移轉對其本身經營成效均是相當重要。對企業而言，此類型的技術移轉已成為其獲取新型技術的重要來源。對政府研究機構而言，政府研發投資的成效係決定於研發成果能否有效地移轉廠商。本研究主要以研究機構之一工業技術研究院技術移轉為主。研究對研究機構及企業而言，進行技術移轉的主要關鍵成功因素為何?研究有以下四個發現;(1)技術移轉業務牽涉層面廣泛、涵蓋多樣專業，包括技術、法律、管理、財務等，宜達到認知一致及雙方資訊回饋的情形下，一定要和對方保持在高頻率溝通。(2)技術移轉需要整合各方資源，所以為了使技術移轉時技術接受者方的技術達到同一個技術水平的情況下，研究機構應為對方隨時準備。(3)雙方背景的懸殊，會影響技術移轉績效;研究機構在避免開發出不符合市場競爭力的商品的情況下，研究機構應一開始就著手彌補這差異。(4)市場變化多端，建議甚至技術移轉期後，仍然應強化後續與企業在技術商品化的互動來因應市場在不同階段的變化。 關鍵字： 技術移轉、研究機構、技術商業化、新產品開發、成功關鍵因素。 / In the age of post global economy financial crisis, trading of intellectual properties still have real meanings to the market in pushing new products, developing new markets and further pushing technology transfer into producible. After continuous refining IP trading methodologies and processes, business entities will become leaders in their markets. This research will focus on success factor in technology transfer with topics in technology applications, market demand and supply chains. Moreover, we will discuss important factors in technology transfer between government research institutions and private enterprises. For private enterprises, it is an important source of obtaining new technology. For government research institutions, performance of the government research investment is determined by whether the result of research and development can be successfully transferred to private enterprises. In this research, we will be mainly discussing technology from Industrial Technology Research Institute in Taiwan. In this research, the author will discuss four main findings in key successful factors in technology transfer between the government research institution and private enterprises. (1) Technology transfer is very involved in many aspect of business including research and development, law, management and finance, etc. It is best to keep good communication between both entities to reach a common consensus and to keep good feedback. (2) Resources from both entities have to be integrated in the process of technology transfer. Therefore, the research institution have to be prepared to have a plan of support for private enterprises to reach the same technology level. (3) Difference in background knowledge between both entities will have impact in technology transfer performance. In the beginning, the research institution have to prepare to remedy this difference in recognition to prevent developing a product that is not competitive in the market. (4) Market changes fast. The research institution should reinforce interaction between itself and private enterprises in technology commoditization and responds to difference phase of product development and market development. keyword : technology transferring, research institution, technology commercialization, new product development, critical success factor.

Thesis (PhD) -- Macquarie University, Macquarie Graduate School of Management, 2008. / Bibliography: p. 301-327. / Introduction -- Literature review -- Methodology and phase 1 research design -- Phase 1 findings -- Phase 2 research design -- Phase 2 findings -- Conclusions and implications. / This research examines the relationship between innovation project portfolio management (IPPM) capabilities and competitive advantage. Innovation projects - or projects for the development of new products - are of escalating importance in an increasingly competitive, globalised and deregulated environment characterised by shortening product lifecycles and dynamic markets. IPPM capabilities aim to improve the success rates for product innovation activities by providing a holistic and responsive decision-making environment to maximise the long-term value of innovation investments across the portfolio of innovation projects. This research takes a wide view and investigates the overall rganisational capability for the management of the innovation project portfolio. -- Successful product innovation is no longer primarily a concern of manufacturing-based industries - product development in service industries is a growing endeavour in an increasingly important industry. Therefore this research includes service product development environments and is the first to extend beyond the traditional manufacturing industry base for IPPM research. This is also the first study to investigate IPPM capabilities in Australia. -- A pragmatic perspective guides a two-phase study encompassing a quantitative survey and a qualitative multiple-case study, the combination of methods providing a deeper level of understanding than could be achieved by either method alone. Findings support prior IPPM studies and suggest a positive relationship between structured IPPM capabilities and improved new product outcomes. The research highlights similarities and differences between service and manufacturing environments, and suggests future challenges will result from the increasing blurring of the boundaries between service and manufacturing industries. This research adopts a 'dynamic capabilities' perspective and draws on organisational learning theory to investigate the path-dependent nature of IPPM capability development. It adds to the understanding of how IPPM capabilities work with the resource base and contribute to competitive advantage. The findings of the research are presented in a maturity model and several conceptual models, and areas for future research are identified. / Mode of access: World Wide Web. / xxvii, 436 p. ill. (some col.)

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No. of bitstreams: 1 71070100694.pdf: 3087524 bytes, checksum: 28f7797fdc05a8da457608ae7810dcff (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-02-10 / This thesis aims at analysing the influence of incubator’s marketing support and entrepreneurial orientation of the firms on the new product development process of incubated technologically-based firms. In order to analyse this process, a model of product development for technologically-based firms was developed from a base model, which was improved regarding the definition and measurement of some of its constructs and to which the influence of the two factors above were included. The developed model was operationalized by a structural equation model. The research methodology is a survey where pretested scales were applied to measure the constructs. The target population is technologically-based firms developed in technological incubators in Brazil, the response rate was 63%, respondents represent incubators in all regions of Brazil and 22 high-tech sectors. This research presents academic and managerial contributions. Among the academic contributions, it was found empirical evidence about the relationship between incubators’ marketing support and firms’ marketing synergy, however, this support does not change accordingly to the uncertainty of the business environment of the firms, which should happen because the entrepreneurs need more support to make decisions in a high uncertainty environment. Another contribution was the empirical evidence that the way entrepreneurs align their business according to the turbulence of environment contradicts to some previous studies, specifically in relation to the degree of product innovation and marketing synergy. In relation to the degree of product innovation, the results show that in a low uncertainty environment there is a higher correlation between entrepreneurial orientation and the degree of product innovation, according to previous studies this should happen in high uncertainty environment where the clients are not able to specify precisely product’s requirements, so there are more opportunities for the firms to develop innovative products. In relation to the marketing synergy, the results show that in a high uncertainty environment there is a higher correlation between entrepreneurial orientation and marketing synergy, according to previous studies this should happen in low uncertainty environment where the clients are able to define clearly product’s requirements, which are often incremental innovations. Among the managerial contributions, the research provides a comprehensive view of the number of technology-based firms per geographical region and per sector, which enables the identification of high-tech sectors where there are not so many firms, so such sectors can be good opportunities to develop new firms. Besides, the research allows entrepreneurs to assess their positioning in relation to other firms in the same sector about the product development time and sales growth rate. The research will also provide to incubator managers an assessment of their marketing support in relation to that of other incubators in Brazil. / Esta tese visa analisar a influência do suporte de marketing da incubadora e da orientação empreendedora das empresas no processo de desenvolvimento de novos produtos de empresas de base tecnológica incubadas. A fim de se analisar tal processo, elaborou-se um modelo de desenvolvimento de produtos de empresas de base tecnológica a partir de um modelo base, que foi melhorado quanto à definição e mensuração de alguns construtos e ao qual foram acrescentadas as influências dos dois fatores acima mencionados. O modelo elaborado foi operacionalizado por intermédio de um modelo de equações estruturais. A metodologia de pesquisa é um survey em que se utilizou de escalas pré-testadas a fim de se mensurar os construtos. A população-alvo é composta por empresas de base tecnológica desenvolvidas em incubadoras do tipo tecnológica situadas no Brasil, a taxa de resposta foi de 63% e os respondentes representam incubadoras em todas as regiões do Brasil e 22 setores de alta tecnologia. Esta pesquisa apresenta contribuições acadêmicas e gerenciais. Dentre as contribuições acadêmicas, encontrou-se evidências empíricas da relação entre o suporte de marketing da incubadora e a sinergia de marketing das empresas, no entanto, tal suporte não se altera em função da incerteza do ambiente de negócios da empresa, o que deveria ocorrer pois os empreendedores necessitam de maior suporte para tomar decisões em ambientes com alta incerteza. Outra contribuição acadêmica foi a evidência empírica de que a forma como os empreendedores orientam seu negócio em função da turbulência do ambiente contradiz alguns estudos anteriores, especificamente em relação ao grau de inovação do produto e a sinergia de marketing. A respeito do grau de inovação do produto, os resultados indicam que em um ambiente de baixa incerteza há uma maior correlação entre a orientação empreendedora e o grau de inovação do produto, segundo estudos anteriores tal fato deveria ocorrer em ambiente de alta incerteza em que os clientes não conseguem especificar precisamente os requisitos do produto, assim, haveria maior oportunidade para as empresas desenvolverem produtos inovadores. A respeito da sinergia de marketing, os resultados indicam que em um ambiente de alta incerteza há uma maior correlação entre a orientação empreendedora e a sinergia de marketing, segundo estudos anteriores tal fato deveria ocorrer em ambiente de baixa incerteza em que os clientes conseguem definir claramente os requisitos de produto, que em geral são inovações incrementais. Dentre as contribuições gerenciais, a pesquisa fornece um panorama do número de empresas de base tecnológica por estado e por setor, o que favorece a identificação de setores de alta tecnologia onde não existem muitas empresas, e portanto, tais setores podem se constituir em boas oportunidades para desenvolver novas empresas. Além disso, a pesquisa possibilita aos empreendedores avaliar seu posicionamento em relação a outras empresas do mesmo setor em função do tempo de desenvolvimento de produtos e da taxa de crescimento de vendas. A pesquisa também fornecerá aos gerentes de incubadoras uma avaliação do seu suporte de marketing em relação ao de outras incubadoras no Brasil.

Ce travail de thèse a pour thème le co-développement de nouveau produit avec les fournisseurs.Nous proposons une méthode d’analyse des dysfonctionnements liés à ce type de conceptiondite « collaborative » qui permet d’en améliorer la pratique. Ce travail s’appuie sur des études decas réalisées au sein de l’entreprise Somfy, des interviews menées au sein de 10 entreprises etune étude quantitative menée avec l’Université de Twente. A partir de la littérature et des étudesde cas, nous proposons une liste des dysfonctionnements puis une classification de ces derniersen 5 classes selon le cycle de vie de la collaboration client/fournisseur. Puis, une analysequantitative d’impact des dysfonctionnements sur la performance projet via une enquête estproposée pour généraliser les résultats des études de cas. Le résultat final de cette thèse est unoutil d’analyse de risques en co-développement avec les fournisseurs développé avecl’entreprise Somfy et inspiré de la démarche AMDEC. Cet outil permet, en début de projet de codéveloppement,d’identifier les dysfonctionnements potentiels les plus critiques de façon àmettre en place un plan d’action adapté. / This thesis is focused on collaborative development of new products with suppliers. A method toanalyze failures linked to this type of development is proposed and enables to improve thispractice. This work is based on case studies carried out at Somfy Company, on interviews carriedout with 10 companies and on a quantitative study carried out with the University of Twente.From a literature review and our case studies, a list of failures is proposed followed by a failuresclassification in 5 classes following the customer/supplier collaboration lifecycle. Then, aquantitative impact analysis of the failures on the project performance via a survey is proposedto generalize the case studies’ results. The final result of this thesis is a risk analysis tool appliedto collaborative development with suppliers developed with Somfy and inspired by the FMEAapproach. This tool enables, at the beginning of a collaborative development project, to identifythe most critical potential failures in order to set up an adapted action plan.

Dissertation submitted in fulfilment of the requirement for the Master of Technology: Quality in the Faculty of Engineering At the Cape Peninsula University of Technology, 2012 / New Product Development (NPD) is a complicated process that determines success or failure of any company engaging in product development processes. Over the past years, due to the current highly competitive market environment, poor management skills, lack of innovation and customer concern, many companies are struggling to develop new products while simultaneously maintaining high quality of each of these new products. Various studies described that quality management is critical to prolong the life cycle of new products. Thus, this study focused on the key success factors of NPD and integrated quality management strategies into NPD process. This study was conducted at a local plastic packaging and load securing company in the Western Cape Province of South Africa. A combination of both qualitative and quantitative research approaches was conducted. Both management (n1=5) the staff members (n2=24) who are involved in the NPD process were selected as samples. A semi-structured questionnaire and several interviews (in-depth and focused group) were utilised for data collection. A statistical programme (SPSS V20) was employed to generate descriptive statistical results and test the reliability of all the variables. The study results identified that the key quality determinants of the NPD process were are NPD reviews, verifications and validations. In addition, for the NPD process to be successful, the company should focus on the development of the NPD strategy, availability of skills and resources including NPD competence, product quality, empowered multidisciplinary teams and effective risk management. Based on the research findings, this study recommends that the company should have more focuses on the areas of customer dissatisfaction, product quality, and prototype planning in their NPD processes.

Abstract Management of product development activities has become increasingly important, as cycle times of product development have shortened. Smaller product development projects are often conducted rapidly at companies based on customer or sales requests to answer the need for faster cycle times. However, this is often done without fully realizing the impact of the new projects on the larger project portfolio or organizational effectiveness. The main objective of this dissertation is to increase knowledge on the use of agile development methods in small, rapid product development projects, and on the implementation of a rapid product development model. The dissertation is formulated as a qualitative, inductive study based on the research results of four original publications and a summary combining the results. The results of the dissertation show that it is beneficial to separate a rapid product development process for certain types of customer- or sales-initiated projects. A new rapid development model with principles and guidelines is introduced to help organizations facilitate this separation. The implementation of the model can be supported with agile development practices, of which self-managing teams are studied in more detail. There is significant overlap between case companies’ perceived success factors for rapid development and self-management. The results imply that a functional rapid development model can be utilized as a strategic asset at companies. The results also provide empirical evidence that agile development practices can be utilized in product development. In addition to providing empirical evidence in scientific discussion about combining product development and agile software development practices, the results can be used to create better definitions of product development processes in general. / Tiivistelmä Tuotekehityksen johtamisesta ja hallinnasta on tullut entistä haastavampaa ja tärkeämpää, kun tuotekehitysprojektien läpimenoajat ovat lyhentyneet. Yritykset tekevät kasvamassa määrin lyhyitä tuotekehitysprojekteja asiakaspyyntöjen tai myynnin aloitteesta vastatakseen markkinoiden vaatimuksiin nopeasta kehityksestä. Tällaisten nopeiden tuotekehitysprojektien käynnistäminen ja toteutus tehdään usein ymmärtämättä yksittäisen projektin vaikutusta koko projektiportfolioon tai organisaation tehokkuuteen. Tämän väitöskirjan päätavoitteena on tutkia ohjelmistokehityksestä tunnettujen ketterien kehitysmenetelmien käyttöä nopeissa tuotekehitysprojekteissa ja uudenlaisen nopean tuotekehityksen mallin käyttöönotossa. Tutkimus on tehty laadullisena ja induktiivisena tutkimuksena perustuen neljään itsenäiseen tutkimusartikkeliin ja näiden tulokset kokoavaan kokoelmaosaan. Tutkimus osoittaa, että yrityksille on hyödyllistä erottaa erillinen prosessi tietyntyyppisille nopeille tuotekehitysprojekteille. Tutkimuksen tuloksena esitellään malli, joka tukee tätä erottamista periaatteiden ja ohjeiden avulla. Tätä mallia pystytään tukemaan ketterillä kehitysmenetelmillä, joihin liittyen on erityisesti tutkittu itseohjautuvia kehitystiimejä. Case-yritysten havainnoimilla nopean tuotekehityksen menestystekijöillä ja itseohjautuvien tiimien ominaisuuksilla on havaittavissa suurta päällekkäisyyttä. Tulokset osoittavat, että hyvin käytetty ja määritetty nopean tuotekehityksen malli voi olla strateginen kilpailuetu yrityksille. Tulokset lisäävät myös empiiristä tietoa ketterien menetelmien käytöstä tuotekehityksessä ja hyödyntävät siten ajankohtaista tieteellistä keskustelua. Tuloksia voidaan myös hyödyntää muiden tuotekehitysprosessien käyttötarkoituksen tarkempaan määrittämiseen.

The rapidly evolving global market scenario raised multiple challenges for an organization such as: change in customer needs and lifestyle, increased competition, compulsion to enter into new markets, pursue to innovate and so on, which raises an additional challenge for organization to sustain and succeed. In order to meet these multiple challenges, continuous New Product Development (NPD) turns out to be one of the essential tasks for any organization to improve market share, profitability and to succeed. In this scenario, a new product portfolio with best mix of new projects that ensures strategic alignment, balance of portfolio and improves organizations’ potential gain is compulsion. However, From the literature, it is observed that, ‘As nearly half of initial NPD ideas occur informally or without a specific goal, even a best performing organization requires a major improvement in the decision making process of Project Evaluation and Selection (PES)’. This emphasizes the significance of decision on Project Evaluation and Selection (PES) of NPD. Additionally, huge investments and resources need to be employed based on decision that is taken at PES phase of NPD. Thus PES turns out to be a crucial and essential phase of New Product Process (NPP). All these stated aspects of this challenging and crucial strategic decision of PES provoke for the requirement of an efficient management system and decision making model. In the literature the management system and decision making processes for formulation of portfolio is termed as “New Product Portfolio Management (NPPM)”. Though various researchers have been focusing on this particular issue of improving NPPM Performance, from the analysis of literature, to the best of our knowledge, it is observed that no one has identified or considered an exhaustive list of possible evaluative dimensions while taking the decision on PES of NPPM (PES-NPPM). This thesis makes an attempt to address this research gap, and the scope of this study is pertained to three sectors of manufacturing industry, namely, Automotive, Electronics and Machine Tools. Accordingly, the main objective of this thesis is “ In order to achieve this particular objective the following sub-objectives, methodologies, and analysis are carried out. For this purpose, first and foremost analysis of literature on PES is carried out. Accordingly, five evaluative dimensions are identified for PES-NPPM and they are: (i) Strategic Fit; (ii) Portfolio-Innovation Balance; (iii) Risk-Uncertainty Estimation; (iv) Cost-Revenue Estimation and (v) Optimized Resource Allocation. Furthermore, it is observed that, there is no study considering all the five evaluative dimensions simultaneously for PES-NPPM either to analyze their impact on performance of NPPM or to develop a decision making model. Thus, we are addressing a new problem configuration in the area of PES-NPPM. Additionally, though the requirements of multi-criteria models for PES-NPPM is discussed both in academic and practioners points of view, the real demonstration of the applicability of multi-criteria models are given a scant treatment in the literature. . By the end of the achieving this objective, we identified five distinct evaluative dimensions which are used in different combinations for PES-NPPM. Further, for measuring each of these five evaluative dimensions, we identified 23, 11, 15, 10, and 18 measurement variables respectively. Based on the evaluative dimensions considered in this study, a framework work is proposed for PES-NPPM. Due to the limitation of empirical evidences on considering the identified evaluative dimensions and respective measurement variables towards the proposed initial framework for PES-NPPM, another exploratory study: a case study method is carried out. In addition to the process of triangulation, the case study approach is carried out to understand (a) significance and nature of the identified measurement variables of all the five evaluative dimensions for PES-NPPM, and (b) real-life practices in decision making process of PES-NPPM and to identify the requirements of decision making tools. Accordingly, 12 case studies (4 each) from three manufacturing sectors, considered in this study, are conducted. Further, 12 case study reports are prepared and inferences are drawn. The inferences drawn are verified by conducting an individual brain-storming session with 3 academicians and 4 practitioners. The detailed analysis of the 12 case study reports endorsed the necessity of considering all the five identified evaluative dimensions in the proposed framework for PES-NPPM. In addition, the case study analysis revealed some of the variables originally considered for measuring the evaluative dimensions are not really the measurement variables, whereas those variables are expected to impact the decision making environment of PES-NPPM (or) NPPM Performance. Further those non-measurement variables are classified into (a) Characteristic Variables of PES-NPPM, and (b) Moderating variables for NPPM. Based on this, case study analysis identified 8 characteristic variables and 8 moderating variables. This specific observation resulted to analyze further the existing literature in order to identify if there exist any additional variables which impact decision making environment of PES-NPPM (or) NPPM Performance. Thus, from the analysis of literature and case study analysis 17 characteristic variable and 13 moderating variables are identified. Additionally, For this purpose, Partial Least Square – Path Modeling (PLS-PM) (or) regression analysis is conducted depending upon type of variables with 104 observations (representing 34, 39, and 31 observations of the three sectors respectively) to analyze the relationships between characteristic and moderating variables on decision-making environment of PES-NPPM and NPPM Performance respectively. From case study analysis, it is observed that the decision making tool required should provide: (a) ability to incorporate judgmental scores along with financial and other quantitative metrics, (b) ability to attain a balance of portfolio and consider interactions among project, and (c) ability to provide alternatives and rank the alternatives. In addition to the observation drawn from the case study analysis on the need of MCDM based tool(s), analysis of the literature is carried out to verify the same. As this problem scenario considers both quantitative and qualitative data for the development of a decision making tool, an appropriate technique/methodology needs to be employed. Based on analysis of literature and the case study reports, this study proposes an integrated Data Envelopment Analysis and Balanced Scorecard (DEA-BSC) model for individual PES. Further, the proposed DEA-BSC model is extended for evaluation of new product portfolio. In the process of formulation of new product portfolio, first, every new product project is evaluated with the proposed integrated DEA-BSC model. Second, an algorithm is designed to generate alternate portfolios with the selected set of efficient new product projects. Then, DEA-BSC model is employed to evaluate the generated portfolios. At this step, an accumulation functions are proposed which considers interactions among projects. These accumulation functions determine the overall input and output of the portfolio along with interactions involved. Accordingly, the proposed integrated DEA-BSC model for portfolio evaluation is expected to result in a balanced portfolio with profitable new product projects. In addition, the workability of the proposed integrated DEA-BSC model is demonstrated by developing a suitable numerical example. Finally, a sensitivity analysis is carried out on proposed DEA-BSC model to analyze the robustness of the results. In summary, this thesis examined a problem of decision making of NPPM. Further, this problem was retained with main focus on PES phase. Accordingly, the major contributions of this thesis are as follows: Identified an exhaustive lists of evaluative dimensions: (i) Strategic Fit; (ii) Portfolio-Innovation Balance; (iii) Risk-Uncertainty Estimation; (iv) Cost-Revenue Estimation and (v) Optimized Resource Allocation. Also identified the significance of these five dimensions in case of PES-NPPM. In addition, all the five evaluative dimensions are considered simultaneously for development of a multi criteria decision making tool for PES-NPPM. Identified the required measurement variables for each of the evaluative dimensions, considered in this study, that are essential for PES, and analyzed their influence on performance of NPPM. Identified and analyzed characteristic and moderating variables that influence decision making environment of PES-NPPM and performance of NPPM respectively. Identified the requirements of a decision making tool for PES-NPPM and developed an integrated DEA-BSC model for PES. To the best of our knowledge, the proposed integrated DEA-BSC model is considered to be the first hybrid model applied to PES-NPPM. Furthermore for implementing the proposed DEA-BSC model, an algorithm is proposed in this study and this is expected to assist decision maker for selecting the right set of projects for new product portfolio with higher development potential, profitability and minimize the associated risk. Identified possible project interactions caused due to external or internal factors and accordingly proposed an accumulation function to capture these interactions. Proposed an algorithm for formulation of new product portfolio and accordingly proposed a detail step-by-step procedure for implementation of the proposed integrated DEA-BSC model. Though this study analyzes the impact of characteristic variables on decision-making environment of PES-NPPM, we limit to link this impact to DEA-BSC Model. In this study, an attempt is made to capture the moderating effect on NPPM Performance, but this study limits to link this moderating effect in proposed DEA-BSC model. Finally, the validation of the workability of proposed DEA-BSC model is limited to the numerical example considered in the study and not to the real-life problems scenarios.