Managing Technological Discontinuities: The Case of the Finnish Paper Industry

ISBN-13: 9780415178532 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 192 str.

Juha Luarila; Juha Laurila

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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;

O autorze

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.