Implementing New Technologies Innovation and the Management of Technology
by Rhodes, Ed; Wield, DavidEdition: 2nd
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2000-06-08
Publisher(s): Wiley-Blackwell
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Summary
Technological change has had a profound impact on manufacturing industry and related business sectors. Since publication of the first edition of Implementing New Technologies the pace of change ahs been maintained, often with uncertain consequences. In this new edition the editors have brought together a collection of readings which include:Project planning. Conversion or application of plans. Consolidation of change after the insertion of new technologies.Although the second edition includes material on innovation it is more concerned with the consequences of technology diffusion and technology transfer, concentrating on the adoption of technologies which are novel in a particular application even though not inherently 'new'.
Author Biography
Ed Rhodes and David Wield are both based in the Faculty of Technology of the Open University, where David Wield is Director of the Centre for Technology Strategy.
Table of Contents
| Preface | |
| Introduction | |
| Part I | |
| A Core Problem Area | |
| Introduction | |
| Managing Our Way to Economic Decline | |
| Investment in Technology - The Service Sector Sinkhole? | |
| The Myth of a Post-Industrial Economy | |
| Europe's Technological Performance | |
| Technology Development and Japanese Industrial Competitiveness | |
| The Innovation Environment | |
| Introduction | |
| Technology, Innovation Theory and The Implementation Process | |
| Structural Crises of Adjustment, Business Cycles and Investment Behaviour | |
| Interactive Innovation in Financial and business Services: The Vanguard of The Service Revolution | |
| The Selection Environment | |
| Capturing Value From Technological Innovation: Integration, Strategic Partnering, and Licensing Decisions | |
| Strategy and Innovation | |
| Introduction | |
| The Global Context of Firm Level Innovation | |
| What We Know About The Strategic Management of Technology | |
| Technologies, Products and Firms' Strategies: A Framework for Analysis | |
| Issues in User-Producer Relations: Role of Government | |
| Managing Technology in Firms in the Service Industrie | |
| Part II | |
| The Interdependence of Technology and Organization | |
| Introduction | |
| Coping With Advanced Manufacturing Technology | |
| Islands, Archipelagos and Continents: Progress on the Road to Computer-Integrated Manufacturing | |
| The Successful Exploitation of new Technology in Banking | |
| Manufacturing by Design | |
| Technology, Skills and Work Organization | |
| Introduction | |
| Industrial Change in Europe: The Pursuit of Flexible Specialization in Britain and West Germany | |
| The Need for Skills in the Factory of the Future | |
| Can Human Skill Survive Microelectronics? | |
| Computerised Machine Tools, Manpower Consequences and Skill Utilization: A Study of British and West German Manufacturing Firms | |
| Social Choice in the Development of Advanced Information Technology | |
| Worker Involvement in Implementing New Technology | |
| Financing Innovation | |
| Introduction | |
| Implications of CAD/CAM for Management | |
| Capital Budgeting as a General Management Problem | |
| Managing as if Tomorrow Mattered | |
| Charting a Course to Superior Technology Evaluation | |
| The Economic Justification of advanced Manufacturing Technology (with special reference to AGVs) | |
| The Dynamics of Project Organization | |
| Introduction | |
| Implementation as Mutual Adaptation of Technology and Organization | |
| Strategy, Organizational Culture and Symbolism | |
| Information Systems and Organizational Change | |
| Post-Project Appraisals Pay | |
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