Management of Technology Books

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41. Working on Innovation

    Edited by Christophe Midler, Guy Minguet, Monique Vervaeke

    Series: Routledge Studies in Innovation, Organizations and Technology

    Since the mid-1980s, the development of competitive strategies based on intensive innovation has deeply transformed the design of new products and services. Much has been written about new methods and organizations that are likely to develop economically competitive and creative capacities in...

    Published August 2nd 2009 by Routledge
42. Multinationals, Technology and Localization in Automotive Firms in Asia

    Edited by Rajah Rasiah, Yuri Sadoi, Rogier Busser

    East Asia has led rapid economic growth in the last few decades with India joining them over the last five years. Automotive parts manufacturers have been an important component of domestic production in all these economies. Experts with several years of multi-disciplinary research experience on...

    Published February 22nd 2009 by Routledge
43. Innovation, Technology and Hypercompetition

    Review and Synthesis

    By Hans-Werner Gottinger

    Series: Routledge Studies in Global Competition

    In an increasingly technologically-led century the striking pattern emerging in firms’ innovative activities is their competition for a technological leadership position in situations best described as races. A 'race' is an interactive pattern characterized by firms constantly trying to get ahead...

    Published January 29th 2009 by Routledge
44. Innovation, Knowledge and Power in Organizations

    By Theodora Asimakou

    Series: Routledge Studies in Global Competition

    This book examines discourses of knowledge and innovation in post-industrial societies and knowledge-based organizations. The author investigates the value of knowledge and the question of innovation management in a fully commercial environment for a technology company. In contrast with most of...

    Published December 11th 2008 by Routledge
45. Innovation Diffusion in the New Economy

    The Tacit Component

    By Barbara Jones, Bob Miller

    Series: Routledge Advances in Management and Business Studies

    This book unites discussions of the philosophical and scientific basis of tacit knowledge. The authors give an overview of the theories of tacit knowledge and explain how these relate to a background of philosophical, neurological and pedagogic literature. The importance of tacit knowledge for...

    Published December 4th 2008 by Routledge
46. Organisational Capital

    Modelling, Measuring and Contextualising

    Edited by Ahmed Bounfour

    Series: Routledge Studies in Innovation, Organizations and Technology

    There is much debate as to how companies carry out their activities in the context of new information and communication technologies influencing organizations to decentralize and develop new managerial practises including outsourcing and networking. Recent theories have emphasized the importance of...

    Published December 3rd 2008 by Routledge
47. Innovation in Japan

    Emerging Patterns, Enduring Myths

    Edited by Keith Jackson, Phillipe Debroux

    The Japanese economy has made a remarkable recovery from the so-called ‘Lost Decade’ of the 1990s. This said, demographic trends suggest that Japan will have to show remarkable powers of innovation if it is to continue to prosper in the global economy. For, around the turn of the last century texts...

    Published October 15th 2008 by Routledge
48. Broadband Economics

    Lessons from Japan

    By Takanori Ida

    Series: Routledge Studies in Global Competition

    Japan's high-speed Internet access services such as ADSL, CATV Internet and FTTH are considered the cheapest and fastest state-of-the-art services drawing international attention. In this book the author introduces the current status of broadband services in Japan and their recent development...

    Published September 11th 2008 by Routledge
49. Information Technology and Competitive Advantage in Small Firms

    By Brian Webb, Frank Schlemmer

    Series: Routledge Studies in Small Business

    Does Information Technology matter? This book argues that even as Information Technology hardware, software, data and associated processes are becoming more of a commodity, it has never been more important to manage Information Technology as a strategic asset. However, managing Information...

    Published July 23rd 2008 by Routledge
50. Mobility and Technology in the Workplace

    Edited by Donald Hislop

    Series: Routledge Studies in Innovation, Organizations and Technology

    The contemporary period has witnessed the rapid evolution in a wide range of mobile technology. This book charts the profound implications these technological changes have for workers and business organizations. From an organizational point of view they have the potential to transform the nature of...

    Published July 13th 2008 by Routledge