Author: Elias Carayanni
Publisher: CRC Pre
Keywords: management, series, technology, technological, strategic, learning
Number of Pages: 216
Published: 2000-11-27
List price: $139.95
ISBN-10: 0849337410
ISBN-13: 9780849337413

How do companies such as BMW, Airbus Industrie, and Bayer leverage technology and learn to thrive where others fail? This book provides a one-stop resource on technology, innovation, and knowledge management. It gives you a tool for gaining short-term, case-specific insight and long-term, industry-wide understanding of the best technology management and learning policies and practices. The Strategic Management of Technological Learning explores a portfolio of case studies on technology-driven-but not exclusively high-tech-companies that have an overall long-term record of success and prosperit

Author: Steven W. Anderson
Publisher: Imperial College Press
Keywords: management, engineering, business, sciences, building, technology, strategic, bridges
Number of Pages: 472
Published: 2008-06-09
List price: $55.00
ISBN-10: 1860949266
ISBN-13: 9781860949265

Two recent major trends in today’s complex and competitive high technology global society have underscored the importance for a textbook on strategic technology management. The first is the desire of major global corporations and high technology firms to hire graduates who are able to understand engineering and science, and make sound strategic business decisions. The second is the increasing interest among engineering and science students to take courses in business management. This invaluable book attempts to bridge business and scientific management practices so as to foster better

Authors:George Tesar, Sibdas Ghosh, Steven W. Anderson, Tom B
Publisher: Imperial College Press
Keywords: management, engineering, business, sciences, building, technology, strategic, bridges
Number of Pages: 408
Published: 2004-02
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 1860943985
ISBN-13: 9781860943980

This invaluable book attempts to bridge business management and scientific management practices so as to foster better understanding between the two entities. It focuses on commercialization of research outcomes. Using cases extensively to illustrate practical difficulties encountered in working across functional barriers, the book also provides guidelines on how these difficulties can be overcome.

Author: Peter Gottschalk
Publisher: Idea Group Publishing
Keywords: technology, management, knowledge, strategic
Number of Pages: 300
Published: 2004-06
List price: $74.95
ISBN-10: 1591403367
ISBN-13: 9781591403364

Strategic Knowledge Management Technology applies the knowledge-based view of the firm, which builds on the resource-based theory. The value shop is identified as the typical value configuration for knowledge firms. This book applies a stages of growth model for knowledge management technology, where firms develop from the person-to-tools strategy, via the person-to-person strategy and the person-to-documents strategy, to the person-to-systems strategy. The case of law firms is extensively explored. IS/IT strategy for knowledge management is developed within the framework of the Y model.

Author: Philip Bromiley
Publisher: Wiley
Keywords: management, strategic, series, theories, foundations, behavioral
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2004-12-27
List price: $54.95
ISBN-10: 1405124709
ISBN-13: 9781405124706

This book argues that assumptions of rationality and market equilibrium are inconsistent with rigorous strategic management research and that strategic management should adopt behavioral assumptions. The author suggests that most scholars in strategic management implicitly adopt a behavioral view by assuming firms can make better or worse decisions, and then trying to understand the characteristics of these decisions. He outlines the basics of a behavioral approach to strategic management; he examines assumptions of rationality and equilibrium and the problems they create; and he considers

Authors:Bert Cannella, Sydney Finkelstein, Donald C. Hambric
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: management, strategic, teams, boards, series, executives, leadership, theory, research, top
Number of Pages: 480
Published: 2008-11-05
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 0195162072
ISBN-13: 9780195162073

This book integrates and assesses the vast and rapidly growing literature on strategic leadership, which is the study of top executives and their effects on organizations. The basic premise is that in order to understand why organizations do the things they do, or perform the way they do, we need to deeply comprehend the people at the top-- their experiences, abilities, values, social connections, aspirations, and other human features. The actions--or inactions--of a relatively small number of key people at the apex of an organization can dramatically affect organizational outcomes.The scope o

Author: Frederick Betz
Publisher: Wiley
Keywords: information, technology, management, strategic, strategy, executive
Number of Pages: 544
Published: 2001-07-27
List price: $130.00
ISBN-10: 047138402X
ISBN-13: 9780471384021

A modern theory of executive strategy for the information age The information revolution has radically transformed virtually every aspect of business today. Yet, no book has fully addressed its impact on strategic management-until now. In Executive Strategy: Strategic Management and Information Technology, Frederick Betz builds on his pioneering work concerning the management of technical innovation to explore the powerful relationship between traditional strategic management and today’s computer and communications technologies. By adapting established strategy-related concepts and