Principle Concepts of Technology and Innovation Management: Critical Research Models »

The broad, interdisciplinary field of technology and innovation management contains emergent boundaries as well as developing frameworks and theories. Due to the dynamic nature of the field, familiarity with the scope of literature is important to practitioners, researchers, and scholars.

Principle Concepts of Technology and Innovation Management: Critical Research Models provides critical, scholarly analysis of over 100 peer-reviewed articles that have had the greatest impact on the multi-disciplinary field of technology and innovation management. The distinguished pool of international authors have identified and analyzed the field's most important works, creating a one-of-a-kind book for scholars and field practitioners.

Sect. I Processes, Strategies, and Development: Executive Summary

Ch. I Introduction to the Field of Technology Innovation Management 1

Ch. II R&D Process Models 31

Ch. III Technology Development and Innovative Practice 55

Ch. IV Social Influence and Human Interaction with Technology 82

Sect. II Innovation, Influence, and Diffusion: Executive Summary

Ch. V Diffusion and Innovation: An Organizational Perspective 111

Ch. VI Knowledge and Change in Organizations 132

Ch. VII Organizational Innovation Strategy 162

Ch. VIII New Product Development 192

Sect. III Technology and Management Information Systems: Executive Summary

Ch. IX Information and Communication Technology Management 218

Ch. X Open Source and Software Development Innovation 251

Ch. XI Directions in the Field of Technology Innovation Management 281

About the Authors 301

Index 303