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This major new book provides a comprehensive, multidisciplinary
analysis of the nature and significance of collaboration between
firms and other actors involved in industrial innovation.The
motivations and mechanisms for technological collaboration, the
fields in which it is likely to occur, and the consequences of
collaboration for the parties involved and the economy as a whole
are all addressed by a distinguished group of scholars drawn from
economics, sociology, management theory and political economy.
Areas and issues covered include growth theory and the theory of
the firm, managerial objectives across different cultures,
interfirm technological linkages, networks and innovation,
strategic collaboration, collaborative agreements, state
intervention, strategic alliances and informal networks.
Technological Collaboration emphasizes the importance of interfirm
collaboration and the establishment of networks in innovation and
economic growth. The issues and themes raised in this volume will
be of interest to scholars from a variety of different
perspectives, interested in technical change, innovation and
industrial organization.
This book investigates the effects of organizational contexts on
the process of technological innovation. It analyses the internal
organization of the firm as well as external influences, and
examines how these factors affect a firm's innovative potential.
The organization of the firm, it is argued, is intrinsic to the
innovation process itself. The authors consider new concepts of the
theory of the firm, look at evolutionary economics and concepts of
innovation within this school of thought, and analyse national and
sectoral systems of innovation. They discuss firm-specific
knowledge and organization, and its effects on innovative
opportunities. In addition, they pay special attention to a firm's
ability to innovate in relation to incentives, and the sources of
technology available to them. From this they conclude that
organizational factors are primary features of the process of
technical change. Included in the discussion are examinations of: *
networks of collaborating firms in R&D activity * 'technology
foresight' and the direction of future innovative activity in
industrial sectors * the relationship between business units and
corporate parents * government and regulatory agencies * the role
of capital, and short termism in financial markets * the
relationship between suppliers and customers Technological Change
and Organization will be of welcomed by those interested in
technological change and innovation, institutional and evolutionary
economics, as well as to microeconomists interested in the theory
of the firm and industrial organization.
The interplay between demand from the market, the role of users in
shaping that demand, and the way in which these factors influence
the innovation process has always been a complex one. This forward
thinking book examines this interplay from a technological change
perspective.The contributors explore the potential for
rapprochement between economics, sociological and other social
science disciplines in considering the allocation of resources and
the making of decisions about technological change. The papers
within this book represent a judicious blend of theory and
empirical research and look at a broad range of innovations,
markets and technologies in medicine, agricultural and food
production, services and IT. Technology and the Market raises the
question of the many 'visible hands' that are involved in linking
technology and the market together. This book is recommended to
academics and policymakers interested in demand-innovation
interaction, scholars of industrial economics and the sociology of
technology as well as entrepreneurs. Understanding user needs is
now seen as one of the most important factors in the success of
innovation and one of the raisons d'etre of market research. This
book attempts to move the boundaries to show the importance of how
demand is detected or constructed by innovators.
This book is concerned with the ways in which organizations design,
build and use information technology systems. In particular it
looks at the interaction between these IT-centred activities and
the broader management processes within organizations. The authors
adopt a critical social science perspective on these issues, and
are primarily concerned with advancing theoretical debates on how
best to understand the related processes of technological and
organizational change. To this end, the book examines and deploys
recent work on power/knowledge, actor-network theory and critical
organization theory. The result is an account of the nature and
significance of information systems in organizations which is an
alternative perspective to pragmatic and recipe-based approaches to
this topic which dominate much contemporary management literature
on IT. This book is intended for academic: Management and social
science academics and postgraduate students of IT strategy and
organization. Practitioner: Senior managers concerned with IT and
strategy issues.
This is a book about IT in organizations how it works, how it changes organization and the problems and challenges it creates. Based on detailed research in several sectors (financial services, hospitals etc.) the authors present an up to date analysis of current issues. The book is divided into three main sections: Strategies and Markets; Integrating Technology and Organization; and Networks.
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