Routledge Studies in Technology, Work and Organizations
About the Book Series
The books in the series offer groundings in central elements of the management of technology and innovation. They provide stimulating treatments of key themes which form part of the Management of Technology and/or Innovation syllabus and are primarily aimed at advanced undergraduates, postgraduates and lecturing and research staff. The books explain, develop and critically explore issues and concepts on the assumption that students and staff already have a basic understanding of the area. All the books in the series incorporate a combination of this review of the current state of knowledge in a particular aspect of the management of technology/innovation with the presentation and discussion of new primary material not previously published.
Patent Management and Valuation: The Strategic and Geographical Dimension
1st Edition
Edited
By Grid Thoma
July 24, 2018
Research on patent valuation has become increasingly important in academic and policy circles in the last few decades. In part, this is the outcome of the wide consensus that innovation is a crucial ingredient for growth at various levels. On the other hand, there has also been an overcoming of ...
Innovation Management in Robot Society
1st Edition
By Kristian Wasén
June 08, 2018
This book introduces cutting-edge issues and thought-provoking concepts on innovation management. It illustrates how robotic developments allow new powerful support functionalities for harnessing workplace innovations and new types of work in enterprises. In particular, low status jobs—heavy, ...
Managing Complex Projects: Networks, Knowledge and Integration
1st Edition
By Neil Alderman, Chris Ivory, Ian Mcloughlin, Roger Vaughan
June 08, 2018
Concerned with the management of complex long-term engineering projects, this important volume, of great interest to postgraduate students of business, technology management and engineering, reports on a set of rich, novel and unique findings concerning the conduct and management of three high ...
Technological Communities and Networks: Triggers and Drivers for Innovation
1st Edition
By Dimitris Assimakopoulos
July 12, 2016
The first book to analyze how new technologies are emerging against a background of continuing globalization of research and development activities. This unique book explores how technological communities and networks shape a broad range of new computer based technologies in regional, national and ...
Challenging the Innovation Paradigm
1st Edition
Edited
By Karl-Erik Sveiby, Pernilla Gripenberg, Beata Segercrantz
September 03, 2015
Innovation is almost always seen as a "good thing". Challenging the Innovation Paradigm is a critical analysis of the innovation frenzy and contemporary innovation research. The one-sided focus on desirable effects of innovation misses many opportunities to reduce the undesirable consequences. ...
Health Technology Development and Use: From Practice-Bound Imagination to Evolving Impacts
1st Edition
By Sampsa Hyysalo
September 03, 2015
How do development and use of new technology relate? How can users contribute to innovation? This volume is the first to study these questions by following particular technologies over several product launches in detail. It examines the emergence of inventive ideas about future technology and uses,...
Nanotechnology and Sustainable Development
1st Edition
By Claire Auplat
September 03, 2015
Public institutions, academic researchers and financial analysts among others hail nanotechnologies as one of the most promising sectors of social and economic development. Calculations predict that it will become a trillion euro industry by 2015 and that it will bring about economic change of at ...
Software and Organisations: The Biography of the Enterprise-Wide System or How SAP Conquered the World
1st Edition
By Neil Pollock, Robin Williams
April 05, 2012
This is the first book that addresses the genesis and career of the modern day enterprise system in a comprehensive and robust manner. It does so through setting out a new approach for the study of packaged solutions and presents novel empirical studies based on in-depth ethnographic and ...
Information and Communication Technologies in Rural Society
1st Edition
Edited
By Grete Rusten, Sarah Skerratt
November 28, 2007
Drawing together the experiences of individuals, households and businesses, this book offers an international perspective on the on how and the extent to which the experiential nature of being rural, whether as an business manager in an SME (or micro-enterprise), a non-business person, a retired ...
Technological Change and Organizational Action
1st Edition
Edited
By Juha Laurila, David Preece
May 16, 2003
In recent decades an extensive array of changes and innovations have taken place in and across work organizations and networks of organizations and workers, facilitated by new technologies and technological forms. This has initiated an interest in technological change as one of the conditions for ...