Managing Technological Discontinuities: The Case of the Finnish Paper Industry

ISBN-13: 9781138995581 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 192 str.

Juha Luarila; Juha Laurila

Opis

This volume describes how conflicting managerial actors become mobilized to co-operate in situations of discontinuous technological change. These ideas are explored through an in-depth study of the Finnish paper industry.

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.