Implementing New Technologies

Introduction: David Wield and Ed Rhodes.

Part I:.

Part I: A Core Problem Area:.

1. Introduction.

2. Managing Our Way to Economic Decline: Robert H. Hayes and William J. Abernathy.

3. Investment in Technology - The Service Sector Sinkhole?: Gregory P. Hackett.

4. The Myth of a Post-Industrial Economy: Stephen S. Cohen and John Zysman.

5. Europe's Technological Performance: Pari Patel and Keith Pavitt.

6. Technology Development and Japanese Industrial Competitiveness: B. Bowonder and T. Miyake.

Part II: The Innovation Environment:.

7. Introduction.

8. Technology, Innovation Theory and The Implementation Process: Ed Rhodes and David Wield.

9. Structural Crises of Adjustment, Business Cycles and Investment Behaviour: Christopher Freeman and Carlotta Perez.

10. Interactive Innovation in Financial and business Services: The Vanguard of The Service Revolution: Richard Barras.

11. The Selection Environment: R.R. Nelson and S.G. Winter.

12. Capturing Value From Technological Innovation: Integration, Strategic Partnering, and Licensing Decisions: David J. Teece.

Part III: Strategy and Innovation:.

13. Introduction.

14. The Global Context of Firm Level Innovation: Ed Rhodes.

15. What We Know About The Strategic Management of Technology.

16. Technologies, Products and Firms' Strategies: A Framework for Analysis: Rod Coombes and Albert Richards.

17. Issues in User-Producer Relations: Role of Government: Roy Rothwell.

18. Managing Technology in Firms in the Service Industries: A.H. Rubinstein, E. Geisler and B. Grabowski.

Part II:.

Part IV: The Interdependence of Technology and Organization:.

19. Introduction.

20. Coping With Advanced Manufacturing Technology: Melvin Blumberg and Donald Gerwin.

21. Islands, Archipelagos and Continents: Progress on the Road to Computer-Integrated Manufacturing: John Bessant and Bill Haywood.

22. The Successful Exploitation of new Technology in Banking: Harry Scarborough and Ronnie Lannon.

23. Manufacturing by Design: Daniel E. Whitney.

Part V: Technology, Skills and Work Organization:.

24. Introduction.

25. Industrial Change in Europe: The Pursuit of Flexible Specialization in Britain and West Germany: Christel Lane.

26. The Need for Skills in the Factory of the Future: Peter Senker and Mark Beesley.

27. Can Human Skill Survive Microelectronics?: H.H. Rosenbrock.

28. Computerised Machine Tools, Manpower Consequences and Skill Utilization: A Study of British and West German Manufacturing Firms: Gert Hartmann, Ian Nicholas, Arndt Sorge and Malcolm Warner.

29. Social Choice in the Development of Advanced Information Technology: Richard E Walton.

30. Worker Involvement in Implementing New Technology: Thomas J. Hyclack and Michael G. Kolchin.

Part VI: Financing Innovation:.

31. Introduction.

32. Implications of CAD/CAM for Management: Peter Senker.

33. Capital Budgeting as a General Management Problem: Joseph L. Bower.

34. Managing as if Tomorrow Mattered: Robert H. Hayes and David A. Garvin.

35. Charting a Course to Superior Technology Evaluation: Bela Gold.

36. The Economic Justification of advanced Manufacturing Technology (with special reference to AGVs): A.J. Pendlebury and E. Lacey.

Part VII: The Dynamics of Project Organization:.

37. Introduction.

38. Implementation as Mutual Adaptation of Technology and Organization: D. Leonard-Barton.

39. Strategy, Organizational Culture and Symbolism: Sebastian Green.

40. Information Systems and Organizational Change: Peter G.W. Keen.

41. Post-Project Appraisals Pay: Frank R. Gulliver.