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Technology, innovation theory and the implementation process
No full textThe focus on firm level innovation - the implementation of new technologies - in this book locates it in one of the most critical areas for companies' survival and growth. This is at a time when the rigour of the competitive environment is becoming tighter and seemingly even more technologically intensive than in the recent technologically oriented past. However, both the innovative significance of the activities and processes involved in technological implementation, and the demands they can present have generally been underestimated and poorly understood
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Exercise '81: The introduction of new manufacturing technologies into Babcock Power Ltd
No full textThis case study focuses on major changes in a large company whose main product is steam generating equipment for electricity production. The study begins by situating the company in the context of the British steam generating industry and its markets. It goes on to describe Exercise '81, a cost-reduction programme which followed a major £20 million investment in new equipment. Its principal corporate goal was, given the large decline in the home market, to cut costs by 25 per cent to make the company internationally competitive in an increasingly cut-throat market environment. This included a major reorganization of working practices in the company. Babcock management set out with a view that management and unions would need to identify a joint goal if changes radical enough to sustain Babcock's competitiveness were to be achieved. The case study describes senior management perceptions of, and actions to gain acceptance of, the changes in all sections of the work force situated in the highly industrialized and unionized Clydeside. Technical, operational and financial aspects of Exercise '81 will also be detailed and evaluated. Finally, events will be summarized since the implementation of this new technology
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Making a Living
No full textThis book, designed primarily as a text for undergraduate and graduate students, provides a framework of ideas accessible and useful to anyone interested in problems of development and underdevelopment in the Third World. Based on the highly successful Open University Third World Studies course, the chapters cover the following major areas among others: theories of development; colonial expansion and colonial economies; the development of industry and agriculture; the influence of the world economy on Third World development.
Survival and Change in the Third World focuses not only on industrial and agricultural production in Third World countries, but also on the people who are involved in making the economies function. With development issues impinging more and more upon established disciplines such as history, politics and sociology, it is expected that this book will provide the framework for further debate in the area of Third World studies
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International relocation of industry
No full textThis book, designed primarily as a text for undergraduate and graduate students, provides a framework of ideas accessible and useful to anyone interested in problems of development and underdevelopment in the Third World. Based on the highly successful Open University Third World Studies course, the chapters cover the following major areas among others: theories of development; colonial expansion and colonial economies; the development of industry and agriculture; the influence of the world economy on Third World development.
Survival and Change in the Third World focuses not only on industrial and agricultural production in Third World countries, but also on the people who are involved in making the economies function. With development issues impinging more and more upon established disciplines such as history, politics and sociology, it is expected that this book will provide the framework for further debate in the area of Third World studies
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Industry and industrialization
No full textThis book, designed primarily as a text for undergraduate and graduate students, provides a framework of ideas accessible and useful to anyone interested in problems of development and underdevelopment in the Third World. Based on the highly successful Open University Third World Studies course, the chapters cover the following major areas among others: theories of development; colonial expansion and colonial economies; the development of industry and agriculture; the influence of the world economy on Third World development.
Survival and Change in the Third World focuses not only on industrial and agricultural production in Third World countries, but also on the people who are involved in making the economies function. With development issues impinging more and more upon established disciplines such as history, politics and sociology, it is expected that this book will provide the framework for further debate in the area of Third World studie
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Conclusions
No full textAbout the book: The restructuring of industrial production, the international division of labor, and continual technological change place developing countries in a global process of industrialization. This book clarifies the positive and negative aspects of this process and examines two different theoretical approaches. The book first focuses on the international economy through examining in detail two relatively successful Third World industrializers--Brazil and South Korea--and then shifts its emphasis to specific aspects of industrialization such as technology, gender relations, culture and the environment
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Introduction
No full textAbout the book: The restructuring of industrial production, the international division of labor, and continual technological change place developing countries in a global process of industrialization. This book clarifies the positive and negative aspects of this process and examines two different theoretical approaches. The book first focuses on the international economy through examining in detail two relatively successful Third World industrializers--Brazil and South Korea--and then shifts its emphasis to specific aspects of industrialization such as technology, gender relations, culture and the environment
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Journal of International Development 32 (1). Special issue and policy arena: The global and the local in engineering and international development
No full textThis special issue on the global and the local in engineering and development builds on an earlier JID Policy Arena on reflexive engineering. It extends our thinking by elaborating the notion of ‘liquid engineering’, which sees engineering and development as messy and improvisational, a borderland hybrid space, composed of objects and practices, and as reflexive and evolutionary. A set of research articles explore this in different ways using a set of case studies, and the policy arena that follows examines liquid engineering in the context of development practice. All the articles suggest that development engineering is at its most successful when embedded locally and informed by global standards flexed or adapted to local conditions. The local through the integration of relevant case studies can then also shape global practices in useful ways
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