C Comparative Concepts of Technology for Strategic Management

2011

Sciences in Business Administration. He holds a master's degree in Sociology and a doctoral degree in Innovation Management from the Chemnitz University of Technology, and is currently completing a PhD in Sociology at the University of Geneva. He has a strong affinity for research topics related to functional differentiation, organisational theory and economic sociology. André Reichel is a Senior Researcher at the European Centre for Sustainability Research at the Zeppelin University in Friedrichshafen Germany. He holds a master's degree in Management and a doctoral degree in Economics and Social Sciences from the Universität Stuttgart. His main research interest is on

International Association for Management of Technology IAMOT 2020 Conference Proceedings, 2020

The present work intends to be an extension of innovation studies on the current characteristics of technological change and its possible effects on the roles and functioning of the interaction of the actors that make up the National Innovation System (NIS). With this paper, it provides information to strengthen innovation management strategies in relation to environmental changes (Digitalization). For this, it has considered the qualitative analysis and identification of new elements that could be characterizing the digitalization, understood as "a new technological path"; and its power of transformation in the interaction and operation of innovation actors. One of the components with greater recurrence that is analysed in this work, is related to the speed and confluence of the technological developments that are generated by digitalization. Specifically, the work managed to characterize the dynamism of the theoretical approach to technological change making a longitudinal analysis until the era of digitalization and on the other hand, new variables could be identified, which alter the form of organization of the NIS actors and that can possibly generate new arrangements in the interaction process of the actors. Also, it is observed that the variables identified are very distinctive of other innovation variables identified previously in the approaches of actors of the Schumpeterian and neo-Schumpeterian current, but nevertheless they appear articulated so much with the principles of the approach of creative destruction as of the own dynamics that acquires the innovation. This new dynamic of technological change influences the effectiveness of the national innovation policy and strategy. The results of the work were achieved through the use of qualitative analysis and a temporal and longitudinal analysis of the technological progress.

The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, 2021

Technological innovation is when inventions of new things and/or new ways of doing things are transformed into usable devices and applications to enable organizations and/or adopters to take advantage of important opportunities, to cope with problems or environmental threats. Technological innovation is an element of the complex system of technology directed to satisfy needs, achieve goals, and solve problems of adopters. The origin and diffusion of technological innovation are main characteristics of the evolution of technology to support wealth creation and the development of human societies.

Journal of product innovation …, 2002

THE JOURNAL OF PRODUCT INNOVATION MANAGEMENT ELSEVIER The Journal of Product Innovation Management 19 (2002) 110—132 A critical look at technological innovation typology and innovativeness terminology: a literature review Rosanna Garcia*1, Roger ...

The Processes of Technological Innovation, …, 1990

2009

While 'new technology'and 'strategy'are pervasive and foundational to this journal's inquiry, each term is filled with ambiguity. This paper seeks to extend our understanding by developing a model relating technology to strategy. The model is a two-by-two frame based on the distinction between 'planned'vs 'emergent'strategy and 'latent'vs 'sensible'technology. The frame generates four distinct domains that we label 'development','capitalisation','creation'and 'cultivation'.

Global Encyclopedia of Public Administration, Public Policy, and Governance, 2020

Technology is a complex system, composed of more than one entity and a relationship that holds between each entity and at least one other entity in the system, to satisfy needs, achieve goals, and solve problems of adopters to take advantage of important opportunities or to cope with consequential environmental threats for purposes of adaptation and/or survival in highly differentiated and volatile environments.

Journal of Enterprise Transformation, 2018

Innovation and technological change have been at the center of our society for most of the past 50 years. During that time, academics have tried with varying success to study the processes that drive growth in innovation and technology. This paper provides a historical perspective on the trajectory of research on innovation and technological change. Based on our review, we offer three positions that run counter to the status-quo. First, that a model of innovation should explain the dynamics of market competition rather than to simply define the source of economic rents. Second, that the manner in which we should study innovation and technological change is much more behavioral in nature. Third, we need to unpack the organization to make progress in understanding innovation. With this in mind, we develop a taxonomy of the relevant literature in strategy, economics, product development, and technology management. We then propose some principles for modeling innovation and technological change in a manner that brings together these fields of study.

TECHNOLOGY ANALYSIS & STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT, 2020

A vast literature exists on disruptive technologies. However, some fundamental questions are unknown, such as: how to measure the growth of disruptive technologies in competitive markets? How is the pathway of technological cycle of disruptive innovations? The study confronts these questions here by developing a theoretical and empirical analysis, which endeavours to explain the behaviour of disruptive technologies that generate industrial and corporate change. A simple model is proposed to measure the relative growth of disruptive technologies compared to established technologies. This analytical approach is applied on the evolution of technologies in the US soundrecorded music industry. Empirical findings suggest general properties that can expand disruptive innovation theory, namely: (1) disruptive technology has a disproportionate growth in markets compared to established technologies; (2) technological cycle of disruptive technology has up wave phase longer than down wave phase (asymmetric shape of technological cycle) and (3) disruptive technology has a series of major and minor technological advances of its own that pave the way for dominance on other established technologies in markets. Best practices for management of technology are discussed.

A literature review exercise was undertaken to identify the research issues in the area of Management of Technology. The articles reviewed have been grouped under seven headings which are strategic management of technology, technology planning and forecasting, technology transfer and acquisition, development and innovation management, technology and organizational issues, adoption and implementation of new technologies, and technology management: implications for developing countries. A brief review of technology management in the automobile industry has also been presented. He has acted as consultant to both governmental and private industrial organizations. He has a special interest in flexibility in management and has also proposed a situation-actor-process-learning-action-performance (SAP-LAP) model for management. _________________________________________________________________________ 1 Introduction In recent years scenario managers have been told by management gurus that 'Technology Strategy' has joined the ever-lengthening list of concerns which demand their majority Copyright © 1997 lnderscience Enterprises Ltd.

IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, 1996

This study here categorizes innovations considering the taxonomic characteristics of interaction between technologies in complex systems. The proposed classification, in a broad analogy with the ecology, includes four categories of technology considering the typology of their interaction: 1) technological parasitism is a relationship between two technologies A and B in which A benefits from the interaction with B, whereas B has a negative side from interaction with A; 2) technological commensalism is a relationship between technologies where technology A benefits from B without affecting it; 3) technological mutualism is a relationship in which technologies A and B benefit from the activity of the other; finally, 4) technological symbiosis is a long-term interaction between A and B technologies that generates coevolution in complex systems. This classification can predict evolutionary pathways of technologies. This study here begins the process of clarifying typologies of interactive technologies that explain the long-run evolution of technology. The theoretical framework can be a ground work for development of more sophisticated theories to clarify technological change.

Journal of Entrepreneurship and Business Innovation, 5(2), 1-26, 2018

The conventional neoclassic approach of the entrepreneurial economic development perceives innovation to a large extent restrictively and unproductively. In a parallel motion, the conventional Keynesian perspective proves to be as well insufficient to study the innovation dynamics evolutionary and dialectically. On the contrary, toward a theoretical repositioning of the innovation studies, there are appearing new approaches that continue the evolutionary study of the capitalistic Firm’s physiology that began in the mid-20th century. This paper focuses especially on this theoretical redefinition to innovation dynamics. It tries to unfold a view of the Firm of physiological and evolutionary type, by highlighting a new synthesis of Strategy, Technology and Management (the ‘Stra.Tech.Man’ triangle) that represents the organic center of the produced innovation, inside all socioeconomic organisms.

Technovation, 1997

Based on a critical approach to the discipline of management of technology, this paper raises some questions regarding how well suited different perceptions of technology and management of technology are for managing technology in a world enriched by complexity and diversity. It is argued that state-of-the-art perceptions of technology and management of technology have evolved over the years to include more and more issues. However, three current challenges, new understanding of organisation, strategy, and management, point to a number of discussions for management of technology at this point in time. We therefore argue that a perception of technology should take into account the human aspects of technology, the irrational view of technology as socially constructed, should contribute to the new, nonhierarchical organisation, and make it possible to use the complexity and diversity of the business environment proactively.