Toward a theory of project interdependencies in high tech R&D environments
通过案例研究，构建了一个理论框架来解释高技术企业多项目并行研发中，项目间相互依赖关系如何影响项目绩效，并提出了基于数据包络分析的项目绩效度量方法。
Abstract In today’s intensely competitive market place, high technology firms are challenged with the task of managing multiple‐concurrent research and development (R&D) projects with constrained resources. As success in the business world depends on the ability to do more with less, it is important for these high technology firms to understand why certain projects consume less monetary resources but still achieve superior product development outcomes. To address this question, we develop a theoretical framework for understanding the interdependencies between projects and their relationship to project performance in a multiple‐concurrent R&D environment. The framework is developed through multiple‐case studies of projects undertaken by a Fortune 500 high technology manufacturing firm. The seven projects that comprised the sample for the multiple‐case study were chosen from a larger portfolio of projects belonging to a technology group at the firm’s corporate R&D center. The choice of the seven projects was guided by a data envelopment analysis (DEA)‐based project performance metric, also proposed in this paper.