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The Engineering-Business Nexus - Symbiosis, Tension and Co-Evolution (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019)
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The Engineering-Business Nexus - Symbiosis, Tension and Co-Evolution (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019)
Series: Philosophy of Engineering and Technology, 32
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Fascinating and compelling in equal measure this volume presents a
critical examination of the multilayered relationships between
engineering and business. In so doing the study also stimulates
ethical reflection on how these relationships either enhance or
inhibit strategies to address vital issues of our time. In the
context of geopolitical, economic, and environmental tendencies the
authors explore the world that we should want to create and the
role of the engineer and the business manager in this endeavor.
Throughout this volume the authors identify periods of alignment
and periods of tension between engineering and business. They look
at focal points of the engineering-business nexus related to the
development of capitalism. The book explores past and present
movements to reshape, reform, or reject this nexus. The volume is
informed by questions of importance for industry as well as for
higher education. These are: What kinds of conflict arise for
engineers in their attempts to straddle both professional and
organizational commitments? How should professionals be managed to
avoid a clash of managerial and professional cultures? How do
engineers create value in firms and corporations? What kinds of
tension exist between higher education and industry? What
challenges does the neoliberal entrepreneurial university pose for
management, faculty, students, society, and industry? Should
engineering graduates be ready for work, and can they possibly be?
What kinds of business issues are reflected in engineering
education curricula, and for what purpose? Is there a limit to the
degree of business hybridization in engineering degree programs,
and if so, what would be the criterion for its definition? Is there
a place in engineering education curricula for reflective critique
of assumptions related to business and economic thinking? One ideal
of management and control comes to the fore as the Anthropocene -
the world transformed into an engineered artefact which includes
human existence. The volume raises the question as to how
engineering and business together should be considered, given the
fact that the current engineering-business nexus remains embedded
within an economic model of continual growth. By addressing
macro-level issues such as energy policy, sustainable development,
globalization, and social justice this study will both help create
awareness and stimulate development of self-knowledge among
practitioners, educators, and students thereby ultimately
addressing the need for better informed citizens to safeguard
planet Earth as a human life supporting system.
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