Book reviews

Books reviewed:
P. Diederen, P. Stoneman, O. Toivanen, A. Wolters Innovation and Research Policies: An International Comparative Analysis
P.J. Buckley and P. N Ghauri The Global Challenge for Multinational Enterprises: Managing Increasing Interdependence
S. Harryson Japanese Technology and Innovation Management: From Know‐how to Know‐who
John Elkington Cannibals With Forks – the Triple Bottom Line of 21st Century Business: (Conscientious Commerce)
W.L. Miller and L. Morris 4th Generation R&D: Managing Knowledge, Technology and Innovation
Shulin Gu China's Industrial Technology – Market Reform and Organizational Change: VNU/INTECH Studies in New Technology and Development
H.C. Marais Perspectives on Science Policy in South Africa     

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Books reviewed:
H. Etzkowitz, A. Webster and P. Healey (eds) Capitalizing Knowledge: New Intersections of Industry and Academia
Haider A. Khan, Edward Elgar Technology, Development and Democracy. Limits of National Innovation Systems in the Age of Postmodernism
J. Michie and J. Grieve Smith (eds) Globalization, Growth, and Governance: Creating an Innovative Economy
R.G. Cooper Product Leadership – Creating and Launching Superior New Products
E.R. Corey Technology Fountainheads: The Management Challenge of R&D Consortia     

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Books reviewed:
A. Ganguly, Business Driven Research & Development: Managing Knowledge to Create Wealth
PA Consulting Group, Going for Growth: Realising the Value of Innovation
K. Brockoff, A. K. Chakrabarti and J. Hauschildt, The Dynamics of Innovation: Strategic and Managerial Implications
Shulin Gu, China's Industrial Technology – Market Reform and Organizational Change: VNU/INTECH Studies in New Technology and Development
L. Kim, Learning and Innovation in Economic Development
R. Oakey, W. During and S.‐M. Mukhtar, New Technology‐Based Firms in the 1990s Vol. VI
T. Rickards, Creativity and the Management of Change
R. W. Rycroft and D. E. Kash, The Complexity Challenge. Technological Innovation for the 21st Century
D. Leonard and W. Swap, When Sparks Fly
H. Grupp, Foundations of the Economics of Innovation: Theory, Measurement and Practice     

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de Geus, Arie The Living Company
Christensen, C.M. The Innovator's Dilemma – When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail
Endres, A. Improving R&D Performance the Juran Way
Oakey, R. and Mukhtar, S‐M. (eds) New Technology‐Based Firms in the 1990s, Volume III
Kim, Linsu Imitation to Innovation: The Dynamics of Korea's Technological Learning
Ashton, D. and Green, F. Education, Training and the Global Economy
Rossval, Bjorn L. The Business Engineer
Augsdorfer, P. Forbidden Fruit: An Analysis of Bootlegging, Uncertainty and Learning in Corporate R&D
Tidd, J.; Bessant, J. and Pavitt, K. Managing Innovation: Integrating Technological, Market and Organizational Change     

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Books reviewed in this article:
Dengjian Jin, The Dynamics of Knowledge Regimes: Technology, Culture and Competitiveness in the USA and Japan
Chrisanthi Avgerou and Renata Lébre La Rovere (eds.), Information Systems and the Economics of Innovation
John T. Scott, Environmental Research and Development
Faïz Gallouj, Innovation in the Service Economy: the New Wealth of Nations
Andreas Pyka and Gunter Kuppers (eds.), Innovation Networks Theory and Practice     

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Books reviewed:
Michael A. Hitt, Raphael Amit, Charles E. Lucier and Robert D. Nixon, Creating Value – Winners in the New Business Environment
Michael A. Hitt, R. Edward Freeman and Jeffrey S Harrison (eds.), The Blackwell Handbook of Strategic Management
OECD Proceedings, Innovative Networks - Cooperation in National Innovation Systems
Robert C. Scharff and Val Dusek (eds.), Philosophy of Technology. The Technological Condition: an Anthology     

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Book reviews in this article:
Poor Work: Disadvantage and the Division of Labour Phillip Brown and Richard Scase (eds.)
Critical Theory of Technology Andrew Feenberg
Building Capitalism: Historical Change & the Labour Process in the Production of the Built Environment Linda Clarke
Restructuring a Traditional Industry: Construction Employment and Skills in Europe Helen Rainbird and Gerd Syben (eds.)
Science Policy Research: Implications and Applications Darcy F. De Almeida (ed.)
Connections: New Ways of Working in the Networked Organisation L. Sproull and S. Kiesler
Organizational Structure and Information Technology Jon Harrington
Manufacturing Knowledge: A History of the Hawthorne Experiments Richard Gillespie     

Knowledge Matters: Technology,Innovation, and Entrepreneurship in Innovation Networks and Knowledge ClustersEdited by Elias G. Carayannis and Piero Formica . Hampshire,UK: Palgrave MacMillan, 2008. 267 + xix pages. US$90.00.

Books reviewed in this issue:

• Knowledge Matters: Technology, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship in Innovation Networks and Knowledge Clusters
• Future Search: Getting the Whole System in the Room for Vision, Commitment, and Action
• Take Charge Product Management: Time‐Tested Tips, Tactics, and Tools for the New or Improved Product Manager

     

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Paul Stoneman (ed) Handbook of the Economics of Innovation and Technological Change .
Richard Hawkins, Robin Mansell and Jim Skea (eds) Standards, Innovation and Competitiveness: the Politics and Economics of Standards in Natural and Technical Environments .
Michael Hobday, Innovation in East Asia: the Challenge to Japan .
David Preece, Organizational and Technical Change: Strategies, Objectives and Involvement .
Margaret Bruce and Wim G. Biemans (eds) Product Development. Meeting the Challenge of the Design-Marketing Interface .
Neil Farmer and Bob Lankester, Total Business Design .
Mark Dodgson and John Bessant, Effective Innovation Policy: A New Approach .     

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Truman F. Bewley, Why Wages Don't Fall during a Recession
Geoff White and Janet Druker (eds) Reward Management: A Critical Text
Robert Taylor The TUC: From the General Strike to New Unionism
David Price, Office of Hope: A History of the Unemployment Service
Anna Pollert, Transformation at Work in the New Market Economies of Central Eastern Europe
Sarah Ashwin, Russian Workers: The Anatomy of Patience
Roderick Martin, Akihiro Ishikawa, Csaba Mako´ and Francesco Consoli (eds), Workers, Firms and Unions: Industrial Relations in Transition
David Knights and Hugh Willmott (eds) The Re‐engineering Revolution: Critical Studies of Corporate Change
Derek S. Pugh and David J. Hickson, Great Writers on Organizations: The Second Omnibus Edition
Linda L. Haas, Philip Hwang and Graeme Russell (eds), Organizational Change and Gender Equity: International Perspectives on Fathers and Mothers at the Workplace     

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C.B. Randall, The Folklore of Management S.L Brown and K.M. Eisenhardt, Competing on the Edge: Strategy as Structured Chaos N.S. Levy, Managing High Technology and Innovation L. Turner, D. Ray and A. Hayward, The British Research of Japanese Companies J. Howells and J. Michie (eds), Technology, Innovation and Competitiveness L. Huemer, Trust in Business Relations: Economic Logic or Social Interaction?     

Book Reviews

Strategic Management of Human Resources A Portfolio Approach . George S. Odione. Jossey Bass Ltd, 1985. £30.75 Hdbk., D. YEO
The Philosophy of Leadership . Christopher Hodgkinson. Basil Blackwell, Publisher, Oxford 1983. pp. 247, £12.50, S. R. EPTON
Current Research in Management . Edited by Valerie Hammond. Published by Frances Pinter, London and Dover, 1985, pp. 265, DOUG LOVEDAY
Foresight in Science—Picking The Winners . J. Irvine and B. R. Martin. Francis Pinter, London, 1984. £12.50, S. R. POSTLE
Capital Investment Selection . Johan G. Wissema. Francis Pinter, London. 1985. £17.50, T. W. McRAE
The Environment for Entrepreneurship . Calvin A. Kent. Lexington Books, Gower Publishing Company Limited. 1984. Hardback £22.00. 190 pages, GEORGE HAYWARD
R&D, Patents, and Productivity . Edited by Zvi Griliches. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London. 1984. Hardback £46.00. 512 pages, GEORGE HAYWARD
Innovation and Technology Transfer for the Growing Firm: Text and Cases . Julian Lowe and Nick Crawford, School of Management, University of Bath. Pergamon Press. 1984. Hardback £11.50. 226 pages, GEORGE HAYWARD
Aspects of Japanese Commercial Innovation . Rodney Clark. Technical Change Centre, London, 1984., S. A. BERGEN
The Marketing of Technology , This is an addition to the IEE Management of Technology Series published by Peter Peregrinus Ltd. 1984. The Series Editor is G. A. Montgomerie, an earnest of informed and workmanlike texts. Price £15 UK, $38 Americas, £19 elsewhere., S. A. BERGEN
Improving leadership effectiveness: the leader match concept . Fred E. Fiedler and Martin M. Chemers, 2nd edition. J, Wiley, New York. 1984. £10.60, ROY PAYNE
The Trouble with Technology: Explorations in the Process of Technological Change . S. MacDonald, D. McL. Lamberton, T. D. Mandeville, (eds.). 1983. London: Frances Pinter, P. P. SAVIOTTI     

Book Reviews

Sako, M. and Sato, H. (eds), Japanese Labour and Management in Transition: Diversity, Flexibility and Participation
Ferguson, Charles and McKillip, Donal, The Strategic Development of Credit Unions
Cannell, W. and Dankebaar, B. (eds), Technology, Management and Public Policy in the European Union
Ransome, P., The Work Paradigm
Rinehart, James; Huxley, Christopher and Robertson, David, Just Another Car Factory: lean production and its discounts
Dent, Mike, Professions, Information Technology and Management in Hospitals     

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THE IMPORTANCE OF INDUSTRIAL DESIGN IN NEW PRODUCT MANAGEMENT
Review of: Design and Innovation—Policy and Management.
Product Design and Technological Innovation, Ed Robin Roy and David Wield
Design, Innovation and Long Cycles in Economic Development
The Politics of Management, by Douglas Yates Jr.
The Transfer of Research Results into Industry. Proceedings of a Technical Change Centre conference held at the Geological Society on 23 September, 1985. Edited by John J. Qiunn. The Technical Change Centre, January 86
International Journal of Technology Management. Editor in Chief: M. A. Dorgham, Published by Interscience Enterprises Ltd.
Industrial R and D into the 1990's, by Bodroghy, Jervis and Montague. UKAEA, Harwell, 1985.
High Technology Small Firms, Innovation and Regional Development in Britain and the United States. Ray Oakey.
R and D Management Systems in Japanese Industry. Hajime Eto and Konomu Matsui (Eds.), Published by North-Holland, Elsevier Science Publications, Amsterdam and New York, 1984. $54.00 140 Dfl.
The Strategy and Performance of British Industry, 1970–80. Luffman, G. A. and Reed, R., Macmillan, London, 1984. |SL25. and Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Drucker, P. F., Heinemann, London, 1985.     

Book reviews

Book review in this Article
The Management Implications of New Information Technology N. Piercy (ed.)
High Technology Small Firms — Innovation and Regional Development in Britain and the United States R. Oakey
Future Work James Robertson Maurice Temple Smith
Technology, Work and Industrial Relations Russell D. Lansbury and Edward M. Davis
Report of the Committee of Inquiry into Labour Market Programs Australian Government Publishing Service Canberra
Japanese Employment and Employee Relations: An Annotated Bibliography Bill Ford, Millicent Easther and Ann Brewer Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra
Technology and the Workforce: An Annotated Bibliography Bill Ford, Margaret Coffey and Dexter Dunphy Technology Research Unit, New South Wales Ministry of Technology
Technological Change: The Tripartite Response, 1982–85 Hedva Sarfati and Margaret Cove
Work in the 1980s. Emanicipation and Derogation Bengt Ove Gustavsson, Jan Ch. Karlsson & Curt Räftegård     

Book Reviews

Clark, Jon, Managing Change and Innovation: People, Technology and Strategy
Casey, Catherine, Work, Self and Society-After Industrialism
Grint, Keith, Gill, Rosalind, The Gender Technology Relation: Contemporary Theory and Research
Phizacklea, A, Wolkowitz, C, Homeworking Women: Gender, Racism and Class at Work
Harding, R, Technology and Human Resources in their National Context: a study of strategic contrasts
Taplin, I, M, Winterton, J, Restructuring Within a Labour Intensive Industry
Lee, Eric, The Labour Movement and the Internet. The New Internationalism     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed in this issue:
George S. Day and Paul J. H. Schoemaker, editors, with Robert E. Gunther
   Wharton on Managing Emerging Technologies
Fred Y. Phillips
   Market-Oriented Technology Management: Innovating for Profit in Entrepreneurial Times
Paul A. Gompers and Josh Lerner
   The Money of Invention: How Venture Capital Creates New Wealth
John Man
   Gutenberg: How One Man Remade the World with Words
Books received for possible review in a future issue:
Ashish Arora, Andrea Fosfuri, and Alfonso Gambardella
   Markets for Technology: The Economics of Innovation and Corporate Strategy
Paul Belliveau, Abbie Griffin, and Stephen Somermeyer, editors
   The PDMA Toolbook for New Product Development
Vincent Bozzone
   Speed to Market: Lean Manufacturing for Job Shops
John Seely Brown and Paul Duguid
   The Social Life of Information
Edmund B. Fitzgerald
   Globalizing Customer Solutions
Michael Greer
   The Project Manager's Partner: A Step-by-Step Guide to Project Management
Jolyon Hallows
   The Project Management Office Toolkit: A Step-by-Step Guide to Setting Up a Project Management Office
Robert C. Megantz
   Technology Management: Developing and Implementing Effective Licensing Programs
Jeffrey H. Rohlfs
   Bandwagon Effects in High-Technology Industries
Etienne C. Wenger, Richard McDermott, and William Snyder
   Cultivating Communities of Practice: A Guide to Managing Knowledge     

Book Reviews

Towers, Brian, (ed.) Employment Relations in Britain: 25 years of the Advisory Conciliation and Arbitration services
Rigby, Mike, Smith, Roger and Lawlor, Teresa, (eds.) European Trade Unions: Change and Response
Turner, Lowell, Fighting for Partnership: Labor and Politics in Unified Germany
Elliot, Robert, Lucifora, Claudio and Meurs, Dominique, (eds.) Public Sector Pay Determination in the European Union
Lind, Jens and Hornemann Möller, Iver, (eds.) Inclusion and Exclusion: Unemployment and Non‐standard Employment in Europe
Clark, Ed and Soulsby, Anna, Organizational Change in Post‐communist Europe: Management and Transformation in the Czech Republic
Dark, Taylor, The Unions and the Democrats: An Enduring Alliance
Freeman, Richard and Rogers, Joel, What Workers Want
Whetten, David and Godfrey, Paul, (eds.) Identity in Organizations: Building Theory through Conversations
Tsutsui, William, Manufacturing Ideology: Scientific Management in Twentieth‐Century Japan
Barker, James, The Discipline of Teamwork: Participation and Concertive Control     

Book Reviews

Technological Innovation: University Roles. The Association of Commonwealth Universities, London
Eurotronics—European Working Party for Forecasting Electronics Markets
Micro Electronics in Western Europe—The Medium Term Perspective 1983–1987, K. P. Friebe and A. Gerybadze (Eds)
New Product Development in Engineering: A Comparison of the British and West German Machine Tool Industries. Stephen T. Parkinson
Stakeholders of the Organizational Mind. I. I. Mitroff.
How companies manage R&D. Niall Lothian. Published by Institute of Cost and Management Accountants, March 1984
The financial side of industrial research management. Lynn W. Ellis. John Wiley & Sons Inc.
The costs of evaluation, edited by Marvin C. Atkin and Lewis C. Solmon.
Personal-Management in der industriellen Forschung and Entwicklung, edited by Michel Domsch and Eduard Jochum. Carl Heymanns Verlag, Cologne
Managing Interdisciplinary Research. Edited by Epton, Payne and Pearson. John Wiley
Optimisation Models for Strategic Planning, edited by T. H. Naylor and C. Thomas
The Next Industrial Revolution—Reviving Industry Through Innovation. Robert U. Ayres.
Management Compensation in High Technology Companies. Jay Schuster.
A History of Engineering in Classical and Medieval Times. Donald Hill.