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Product Design: a Review and Research Agenda for Management Studies
Author(s) -
Ravasi Davide,
Stigliani Ileana
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
international journal of management reviews
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 4.475
H-Index - 107
eISSN - 1468-2370
pISSN - 1460-8545
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-2370.2012.00330.x
Subject(s) - context (archaeology) , software deployment , product (mathematics) , product design , design management , knowledge management , organizational architecture , research design , strategic design , engineering ethics , management science , sociology , process management , business , computer science , marketing , engineering , social science , information management , software engineering , paleontology , geometry , mathematics , biology , purchasing
This paper reviews research on product design in the broad domain of business studies. It highlights established and emerging perspectives and lines of inquiry, and organizes them around three core areas, corresponding to different stages of the design process (design activities, design choices, design results). Avenues for further research at the intersection of these bodies of research are identified and discussed, and the authors argue that management scholars possess conceptual and methodological tools suited to enriching research on design and effectively pursuing lines of investigation only partially addressed by other communities, such as the construction and deployment of design capabilities, or the organizational and institutional context of design activities.