Managing Technology and Innovation: An Introduction

Hardcover, xix + 364 pages, NOT ex-library. A clean and bright copy with unmarked text, free of inscriptions and stamps. A short crease to the lower outer corner of one leaf. A scratch on the front board. Published without a dust jacket. -- The book focuses on understanding technology as a corporate resource, covering product development, design of systems and the managerial aspects of new and high technology. Topics covered include: * The internal organization of high technology firms * The management of technology in the society * Managing innovation * Dilemmas and strategies. The wide-ranging experience of the teachers and experts who have contributed to this book has resulted in an integrated, multi-disciplinary, textbook that provides an introductory overview to managing technology and innovation in the 21st century. -- Contents: Part I General Introduction: 1 Management of Technology: Setting the Scene / Uldrik E. Speerstra; Part II The Internal Organization of High-Technology Firms: 2 Design of Technological Firms / Bernhard R. Katzy; 3 Human Resource Management for Advanced Technology / Robert M. Verburg & Deanne N. Den Hartog; 4 Cost and Financial Accounting in High-Technology Firms / Tom Poot; 5 Foundations for Successful High-Technology Marketing / Jakki J. Mohr; Part III The Management of Technology in the Society: 6 Managing the Dynamics of Technology in Modern Day Society / Karel F. Mulder; 7 Development and Diffusion of Breakthrough Communication Technologies / J. Roland Ortt; 8 Forecasting the Market Potential of New Products / David J. Langley; 9 The Innovating Firm in a Societal Context: Labor-Management Relations and Labor Productivity / C.W.M. Naastepad & Servaas Storm; 10 Complex Decision-Making in Multi-Actor Systems / Martijn Leijten & Hans de Bruijn; Part IV Managing Innovation: 11 Corporate Strategy and Technology / Marc A. Zegveld; 12 Innovation in Context: From R&D Management to Innovation Networks / Patrick Van der Duin; 13 Operation Management with System Dynamics / Zofia Verwater-Lukszo; 14 Managing Knowledge Processes / J.H. Erik Andriessen; Part V Dilemmas and Strategies: 15 Making the Impossible Possible: Controlling Innovation / Peer Ederer; 16 When Failure is Not an Option: Managing Complex Technologies Under Intensifying Interdependencies / Michel J.G. van Eeten; 17 Managing Performance in Firms / Hans de Bruijn; 18 Management Dilemmas and Strategies in Practice / Willemijn M. Dicke; Index.…