...Regis Coeurderoy; Nathalie Guilmot; Alain Vas Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore how drivers differentially speed up the change process adoption in the perspective of a technological change. More specifically, the paper aims to answer the following question: “Which factors impact...

... of welfare or crisis management, rather than from clear visions of economic improvement and efficiency (p. 589). © MCB UP Limited 2001 Coal Entrepreneurialism Management Rationalization Economies of scale Technological change “Coalowners” was the term used in the first half...

... of the organisation and those of all other partners may be met by agreeing and implementing mutually acceptable strategies. © MCB UP Limited 2000 Organizational development Technological change Knowledge management Models Pine (1993) suggests that the UK was, during the period...

... 2000 Technology Technological change Society Technology is being presented as something new as it drives change at an ever‐increasing rate. It is often equated with being modern and holds out a panacea in which the future is invariably better than the past. The accelerating rate...

... Technological change Technology Women Workforce Above all, however, there is now sufficient educated manpower to take advantage of these physical resources. It is humanity itself, especially those members with special skills, which now is in the shortest supply. On the other hand, many countries...

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...Paul F. Takac; C.P. Singh Discusses the role of technology in financial institutions. Suggests that, given its cost and operational importance, technological change must be carefully planned and managed and integrated with business planning. Technology′s role has increased from back‐office support...

... alliances are a means of rationalizing business operations and improving the overall competitive position of a company and are important because of the sheer speed and dynamism of technological change which has opened up a wide range of new activity areas. Banking firms, however, experienced difficulty...

... Decision making Information technology Organizations Strategic planning Technological change 6 MANAGING THE INFORMATION EXPLOSION Chapter 1: Introduction to Information Management Information is too integral to the strategic success of a judgement in areas which could not easily be transformed...

... and effort put into adoption can pay off in terms of a less‐problematic, and, hence time‐consuming and costly, introduction. © MCB UP Limited 1991 Corporate strategy Job design Organizational restructuring Technological change THE WHYS AND WHEREFORES OF NEW TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION 53 A dopting...