Management of Technology & Innovation Books

New and Published Books – Page 5

41. Management Development

    Perspectives from Research and Practice

    Edited by Rosemary Hill, Jim Stewart

    Series: Routledge Studies in Human Resource Development

    Recognizing a significant need to continually update the current body of knowledge on management development with the latest innovations in high quality research and practice in various parts of the globe, this book provides the most comprehensive and up-to-date work on the state of research and...

    Published April 15th 2012 by Routledge
42. Challenging the Innovation Paradigm

    Edited by Karl-Erik Sveiby, Pernilla Gripenberg, Beata Segercrantz

    Series: Routledge Studies in Technology, Work and Organizations

    Innovation is almost always seen as a "good thing". Challenging the Innovation Paradigm is a critical analysis of the innovation frenzy and contemporary innovation research. The one-sided focus on desirable effects of innovation misses many opportunities to reduce the undesirable consequences....

    Published April 2nd 2012 by Routledge
43. Environmental Efficiency, Innovation and Economic Performances

    Edited by Anna Montini, Massimiliano Mazzanti

    Series: Routledge Explorations in Environmental Economics

    Eco-innovation is becoming a conceptual reference point for many regional and international public policies and management strategies. This field of research has been focusing on how environmental innovation is particularly related to the intensity of emissions and economic performance. There are...

    Published March 28th 2012 by Routledge
44. Complex Adaptive Innovation Systems

    Relatedness and Transversality in the Evolving Region

    By Philip Cooke

    Series: Regions and Cities

    Leading up to the financial crisis of 2008 and onwards, the shortcomings of traditional models of regional economic and environmental development had become increasingly evident. Rooted in the idea that ‘policy’ is an encumbrance to free markets, the stress on supply-side smoothing measures such as...

    Published March 20th 2012 by Routledge
45. Deregulation, Innovation and Market Liberalization

    Electricity Regulation in a Continually Evolving Environment

    By L. Lynne Kiesling

    Series: Routledge Studies in Business Organizations and Networks

    Over the past 50 years the US economy has experienced economic dynamism and technological change at a dizzying pace, driven substantially by innovation in digital communication technology. This dynamism has had limited effects in the electricity industry, and institutional change within the...

    Published March 13th 2012 by Routledge
46. Industrial Innovation in Japan

    Edited by Takuji Hara, Norio Kambayashi, Noboru Matsushima

    Series: Routledge Studies in Innovation, Organizations and Technology

    In this new book, Hara, Kambayashi and Matsushima gather together a collection of case studies of innovation in various industries in modern Japan, including automobile, electronics, semiconductor, component, chemical, pharmaceutical and service industries. Unlike other books in this area,...

    Published March 13th 2012 by Routledge
47. The Economics of Industrial Innovation

    By Chris Freeman

    Edited by Luc Soete

    Published January 8th 2012 by Routledge
48. Systems of Innovation

    Technologies, Institutions and Organizations

    Edited by Charles Edquist

    Published January 8th 2012 by Routledge
49. Management and Information Technology

    Challenges for the Modern Organization

    Edited by Peter Ekman, Peter Dahlin

    Series: Routledge Studies in Innovation, Organizations and Technology

    Information technology has come to play an important role in organizations over the last few decades. Though it began as an entity dealt with by specialists, IT has evolved to become an everyday tool with both operational and strategic impacts. Most modern organizations have adopted different forms...

    Published December 20th 2011 by Routledge
50. Project Management for Engineering, Business and Technology

    4th Edition

    By John M. Nicholas, Herman Steyn

    There is an ever-growing need for better project management within the disciplines of engineering, business and technology and this new edition is a direct response to that need. By emphasizing practical applications, this book targets the ultimate purpose of project management; to unify and...

    Published November 28th 2011 by Routledge