Toward exemplary research in the management of technology - an introductory essay

Article Abstract:

Management of Technology (MOT) needs to develop its own identity while maintaining links with other disciplines such as sociology, which can help shed light on the context of technological change. Areas for fruitful research in MOT include areas which have been subject to rapid change, areas in which academics have lost interest, and contradictions between theories and data, or where data are contradictory. The course which MOT will take cannot be foreseen, but potentially fruitful lines of enquiry can be identified.

Noncommercial research organizations

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Engineering careers, job rotation, and gatekeepers in Japan and the United States

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The Japanese labour system of flexibility within companies, but stability in the same firm is examined in its impact on technology diffusion within and between firms, compared with the United States. Despite a forecast that communication within firms would be greater, and information transfer between firms would be less in Japan, there were few differences between ways Japanese and United States engineers received information. Both groups tended to rely on sources from outside rather than within their firms.

Japan

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A community perspective on the emergence of innovations

Article Abstract:

A perspective which emphasises the importance of social systems can help analyze how technologies emerge, through giving a more complete, holistic view, linking research to developments at macro level, and taking the debate on innovation beyond the private sector. An approach using a framework from traditional industrial economics gives a narrower view, while a focus restricted to the private sector ignores important roles played by actors in the public sector in developing and marketing new technologies.

Infrastructure (Economics), Economic aspects

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