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The product life cycle: analysis and applications issues

George S. Day
- 23 Jan 1981 - 
- Vol. 45, Iss: 4, pp 60-67
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This overview is designed to put these articles into a broader perspective by analyzing the major issues of identification, forecasting, and strategy formulation encountered in any meaningful application of the product life cycle.
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Each of the articles in this special section makes a distinctive contribution to the long-standing controversy over the managerial value of the product life cycle concept. This overview is designed...

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The learning curve: historical review and comprehensive survey

TL;DR: The use of the learning curve has been receiving increasing attention in recent years as discussed by the authors, and much of this increase has been due to learning curve applications other than in the traditional learning curve areas.
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Toward a Contingency Theory of Business Strategy

TL;DR: In the past two decades the concept of organizational strategy has emerged as one of the cornerstones of both management theory and practice as mentioned in this paper, and many papers, articles, and books have explored this concept and its myriad characteristics and nuances.
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Dynamic Price Models for New-Product Planning

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors show that classic marginal pricing is far from optimum for a rapidly evolving business, and more appropriate dynamic models can be formulated if one has some feeling for the dominant evolutionary forces in the business environment; and, planning based on the dynamic model can lead to a significant improvement in the long run profit performance.