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Management of innovation in high technology small firms
Book office blocks which are usually located in expensive, congested city centres? Francis Kinsman’s book examines the concept of remote working and in particular the experience of organizations which successfully operate a ‘home-working’ system. He has consulted with homeworkers, as well as with middle and senior managers, to compile vivid and instructive accounts of teleworking in action. The technological, social and economic/organizational backgrounds are discussed, as related to international trends in teleworking, but the emphasis is on the reality of teleworking today and its management. The author ends with a practical checklist of issues to guide and inform managers and policy makers in organizations which are considering or adopting the practice of teleworking.
Cancer in The Netherlands: Scenarios on Cancer 1985-2000, Steering Committee on Future Health Scenarios (1988), Vol. 1, Scenario report, 366 pp., Vol. 2, Annexes 194 pp., (1619) prices not quoted. The Scenario Committee on Cancer has provided insights into possible developments in the incidence and prevalence of, and mortality from cancer, together with the resulting demand for care. The committee limited itself mainly to 12 types of cancer and tried to look ahead until the year 2000. Where possible the future scenarios have been quantified. These scenarios are based on a detailed analysis of the nature and dimensions of the cancer problem at present and in the past. These trends are integrated with the possible influence of research on the control of cancer.
Reviews
Dictionary of Economics, DR CHRISTOPHERPASS, DR BRYAN LOWES and DR LESLIE DAVIES, Collins Reference (1988), (1621) 557 pp., A4.95 (paperback). This Dictionary is addressed primarily to the requirements of undergraduates and advanced school students. It has over 1700 entries and summarizes the important theoretical principles behind the science of economics.
International Mergers and Acquisitions TERENCE E. COOKE (in association with Arthur Young International), Basil Blackwell (1622) (1988), 516 pp., A50. This book first looks at how international mergers and acquisitions differ from those at a national level. Twelve chapters--each covering a key country or area, including the U.K., U.S.A., Europe and Japan-then provide a wealth of information on each country, including statistics and trends in merger and acquisition activity, concise details of forms of business organizations, merger regulations and controls, taxation and accounting implications, foreign investment and exchange controls, and other factors such as cultural differences and employee rights. Invaluable as a practical reference tool for anyone involved in mergers and acquisitions, as well as being of value to academics and students in accountancy, finance, banking, management and law.
Management of Innovation in High Technology Small Firms, RAYMOND OAKEY, ROY ROTHWELL and SARAH COOPER, Pinter Publishers (1988), 198 pp., A27.50. (1623)
Considerable attention is devoted to the avoidability of cancer and to expected developments in the demand for diagnosis and treatment. Although the exercise provides some invaluable background material, it requires a more sophisticated development of scenario theory, together with the integration of cost factors, before it can be of real value. Also, unfortunately, as is the case with many official reports, the format and presentation leaves much to be desired ifit is to be read and acted on by busy managers.
The encouragement of the birth and growth of high technology small firms is a major objective of both national and regional government agencies. This book provides a detailed study of regional variations in the management of innovation in high technology small firms. The empirical research considers all the major management factors that are inputs to the innovation process through a time-series study of innovation in British and American high technology small firms. The study forms the basis of a radical new proactive policy approach to the promotion of growth in high technology small firms. Unfortunately such programmes seem easier to justify in theory than operate successfully in practice.
The Generation of Ideas For New Products, TREVOR SOWREY, Kogan Page (1988), 144 pp., L9.95 (paperback). (1620)
Entrepreneurship in Action, The Economist (1987) 129 pp., 4120.
Producing new products is a vital but precarious activity. Often new ideas are greeted enthusiastically initially, only to fail later, often for organizational reasons.
Many large corporations have highly traditional and conservative cultures. Many have unwieldly and inflexible structures. But in almost all of them there is a powerful-yet usually latent-entrepreneurial spirit.
This book covers idea generation techniques and aims to help all managers in industry who are responsible for new product development to avoid costly failures. The body of the text emphasizes over 60 tried and tested techniques that can be used in the search for new products. If the study has a weakness it is in underestimating the real conflicts that exist between the interests of the core business and those concerned with the precarious business of launching new ventures successfully.
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A range of approaches have been tried and tested to realize the potential of a company’s work-force. This report appreciates that no two corporations have the same characteristics, nor do they require the same solutions. Through checklists and numerous company examples the suitability for different firms of the various entrepreneurial schemes are assessed, answering such questions as how companies stimulate an entrepreneurial spirit, how individual entrepreneurial talent can be spotted and harnessed and how entrepreneurial individuals as opposed to
Cancer in The Netherlands: Scenarios on Cancer 1985-2000, Steering Committee on Future Health Scenarios (1988), Vol. 1, Scenario report, 366 pp., Vol. 2, Annexes 194 pp., (1619) prices not quoted. The Scenario Committee on Cancer has provided insights into possible developments in the incidence and prevalence of, and mortality from cancer, together with the resulting demand for care. The committee limited itself mainly to 12 types of cancer and tried to look ahead until the year 2000. Where possible the future scenarios have been quantified. These scenarios are based on a detailed analysis of the nature and dimensions of the cancer problem at present and in the past. These trends are integrated with the possible influence of research on the control of cancer.
Reviews
Dictionary of Economics, DR CHRISTOPHERPASS, DR BRYAN LOWES and DR LESLIE DAVIES, Collins Reference (1988), (1621) 557 pp., A4.95 (paperback). This Dictionary is addressed primarily to the requirements of undergraduates and advanced school students. It has over 1700 entries and summarizes the important theoretical principles behind the science of economics.
International Mergers and Acquisitions TERENCE E. COOKE (in association with Arthur Young International), Basil Blackwell (1622) (1988), 516 pp., A50. This book first looks at how international mergers and acquisitions differ from those at a national level. Twelve chapters--each covering a key country or area, including the U.K., U.S.A., Europe and Japan-then provide a wealth of information on each country, including statistics and trends in merger and acquisition activity, concise details of forms of business organizations, merger regulations and controls, taxation and accounting implications, foreign investment and exchange controls, and other factors such as cultural differences and employee rights. Invaluable as a practical reference tool for anyone involved in mergers and acquisitions, as well as being of value to academics and students in accountancy, finance, banking, management and law.
Management of Innovation in High Technology Small Firms, RAYMOND OAKEY, ROY ROTHWELL and SARAH COOPER, Pinter Publishers (1988), 198 pp., A27.50. (1623)
Considerable attention is devoted to the avoidability of cancer and to expected developments in the demand for diagnosis and treatment. Although the exercise provides some invaluable background material, it requires a more sophisticated development of scenario theory, together with the integration of cost factors, before it can be of real value. Also, unfortunately, as is the case with many official reports, the format and presentation leaves much to be desired ifit is to be read and acted on by busy managers.
The encouragement of the birth and growth of high technology small firms is a major objective of both national and regional government agencies. This book provides a detailed study of regional variations in the management of innovation in high technology small firms. The empirical research considers all the major management factors that are inputs to the innovation process through a time-series study of innovation in British and American high technology small firms. The study forms the basis of a radical new proactive policy approach to the promotion of growth in high technology small firms. Unfortunately such programmes seem easier to justify in theory than operate successfully in practice.
The Generation of Ideas For New Products, TREVOR SOWREY, Kogan Page (1988), 144 pp., L9.95 (paperback). (1620)
Entrepreneurship in Action, The Economist (1987) 129 pp., 4120.
Producing new products is a vital but precarious activity. Often new ideas are greeted enthusiastically initially, only to fail later, often for organizational reasons.
Many large corporations have highly traditional and conservative cultures. Many have unwieldly and inflexible structures. But in almost all of them there is a powerful-yet usually latent-entrepreneurial spirit.
This book covers idea generation techniques and aims to help all managers in industry who are responsible for new product development to avoid costly failures. The body of the text emphasizes over 60 tried and tested techniques that can be used in the search for new products. If the study has a weakness it is in underestimating the real conflicts that exist between the interests of the core business and those concerned with the precarious business of launching new ventures successfully.
Intelligence
Unit (1624)
A range of approaches have been tried and tested to realize the potential of a company’s work-force. This report appreciates that no two corporations have the same characteristics, nor do they require the same solutions. Through checklists and numerous company examples the suitability for different firms of the various entrepreneurial schemes are assessed, answering such questions as how companies stimulate an entrepreneurial spirit, how individual entrepreneurial talent can be spotted and harnessed and how entrepreneurial individuals as opposed to