Juha Laurila

Managing Technological Discontinuities (eBook, PDF)

The Case of the Finnish Paper Industry

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Usually firms introduce new technology in an incremental way, wisely seeking to minimise the adverse effects which business and employees might face. However, this is not always the case. Sometimes technological discontinuities occur when radically different technological systems and working practices are implemented, with the possibility of widespread disruption and conflict. This book looks at this topical issue through the experiences of the international giants of the Finnish paper industry - an industry at the cutting edge of fundamental technological innovation.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. September 2002
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134683734
• Artikelnr.: 41836500

Autorenporträt

A senior lecturer at the Helsinki School of Economics, Finland. He has recently finished a three-year research project on management of technology funded by the Academy of Finland. His recent publications include articles in such scholarly journals as Journal of Management Studies, The International Journal of Human Resource Management and Scandinavian Journal of Management.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Management and technological discontinuities
Chapter 3 Mobilisation of managerial actors for discontinuous change
Chapter 4 The research process
Chapter 5 Overview of the technological discontinuity in focus
Chapter 6 The actor perspective to the discontinuity
Chapter 7 Building a contextual explanatory framework for technological discontinuities
Chapter 8 Further challenges in the study of managing technological discontinuities