Managing Complexity in High Technology Organizations

"An excellent collection of essays providing an empirical study of high-technology organizations....The essays are clearly written, up-to-date, and well documented....The book provides clear discussion of a topic of importance to US competitiveness and is thus recommended for lower-division as well as upper-division and graduate collections."--Choice"Both the importance of the topic and the caliber of the contributions to this book are quite high. Technology clearly plays an increasingly important role in management and organization, and we still have much to learn about how to manage organizations for which technology is a driving force."--James W. Dean, Jr., Pennsylvania State University"Managing Complexity in High Technology Organizations contains a set of thoughtful and valuable essays about the management of "high tech" companies....The essays are written so as to be accessible and useful both to indivduals with only a cursory exposure to the research on high technology organizations and to individuals well versed in recent ideas and perspectives."--Journal of Management

• Susan A. Mohrman and Mary Ann Von Glinow: High technology organizations: an introduction; Everett M. Rogers and Ying-Chung Annie Chen: Technology transfer and the technopolis; Jay Galbraith: Technology and global strategies and structures; Gerardo Ungson: International competition in high technology: the case of the United States, Japan, and Europe; Kathleen M. Eisenhardt and L. Jay Bourgeois, III: Charting strategic decisions in the microcomputer industry: profile of an industry star; Claudia Bird Schoonhoven and Mariann Jelinek : Dynamic tension in innovative, high technology firms: managing rapid technological change through organizational structure; Thomas J. Kosnik: Perennial renaissance the marketing challenge in high-tech settings; Karlene H. Roberts and Gina Gargano: Managing a high reliability organization: a case for interdependence; Dorothy Leonard-Barton: Implementing new production technologies: exercises in corporate learning; Paul Adler: Managing high tech processes: the challenge of CAD/CAM; Allan M. Mohrman, Susan A. Mohrman and Christopher G. Worley: High technology performance management; Susan Resnick-West and Mary Ann Von Glinow: Beyond the clash: managing high technology; Luis Gomez-Mejia and Theresa Welbourne: The role of compensation in the human resource management strategies of high technology firms; Susan A. Mohrman and Mary Ann Von Glinow: High technology organization: a synthesis