Managing Complexity in High Technology Organizations -

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Résumé :
This is a book on the special challenges that face managers in high technology industries. The topics covered include: high technology centres in the US and other parts of the world, the globalization of high technology markets, the effects of governmental industrial policies on the management of high technology industries, organization forms and strategy, and the impact of technology on organizational processes.

Sommaire:
Susan A. Mohrman and Mary Ann Von Glinow: High technology organizations: an introduction; Everett M. Rogers and Ying-Chung Annie Chen: Technology transfer and the technopolis; Jay Galbraith: Technology and global strategies and structures; Gerardo Ungson: International competition in high technology: the case of the United States, Japan, and Europe; Kathleen M. Eisenhardt and L. Jay Bourgeois, III: Charting strategic decisions in the microcomputer industry: profile of an industry star; Claudia Bird Schoonhoven and Mariann Jelinek : Dynamic tension in innovative, high technology firms: managing rapid technological change through organizational structure; Thomas J. Kosnik: Perennial renaissance the marketing challenge in high-tech settings; Karlene H. Roberts and Gina Gargano: Managing a high reliability organization: a case for interdependence; Dorothy Leonard-Barton: Implementing new production technologies: exercises in corporate learning; Paul Adler: Managing high tech processes: the challenge of CAD/CAM; Allan M. Mohrman, Susan A. Mohrman and Christopher G. Worley: High technology performance management; Susan Resnick-West and Mary Ann Von Glinow: Beyond the clash: managing high technology; Luis Gomez-Mejia and Theresa Welbourne: The role of compensation in the human resource management strategies of high technology firms; Susan A. Mohrman and Mary Ann Von Glinow: High technology organization: a synthesis