Purpose - This paper addresses the issue of the underrepresentation of women in leadership positions within the information and communication technology (ICT) and engineering fields. The study examines the complex issue of vertical segregation and gender equality by exploring the barriers that...

Walter Andrew Shewhart is regarded as the founder of Statistical Quality Control (SQC), an approach to production inspection based on the application of statistical theory. He developed SQC in the 1920s while working at Bell Telephone Laboratories. During this period, he was tasked with training...

Understanding the role of human management is crucial for the debate over algorithmic management—to date limited to studies on the platform economy. This qualitative case study in logistics reconstructs the actor constellations (managers, engineers, data scientists and workers) and negotiation...

Walter Andrew Shewhart is regarded as the founder of Statistical Quality Control (SQC), an approach to production inspection based on the application of statistical theory. He developed SQC in the 1920s while working at Bell Telephone Laboratories. During this period, he was tasked with training...

The digital transformation of industries has given rise to new categories of tech workers, such as software engineers and UX/UI designers, who now work alongside traditional engineers. This study explores the evolving relationship between these groups, focusing on work processes, status...

The advent of Industry 4.0 presents a spectrum of challenges for entrepreneurs in India, demanding specifc skills and resources. Within this transformative landscape, engineering disciplines assume a pivotal role in navigating the complexities of the new industrial revolution yet pose challenges...

A "segment" is a component of the organization of an agglomeration. The organization of agglomeration is formed by the construction of segments. Manufacturing agglomeration segments can be divided into four main categories: human resources including engineers, physical infrastructure,...

Purpose – The objective of this paper is to develop a framework which assists in discovering the drivers of transition from a search engine to a chat engine by the consumer for initial information search. Design/methodology/approach – The methodology has three parts. First, we provide a...

The World Economic Forum held in Davos, Switzerland in January this year raised a global issue by suggesting a new subject, “Mastering of the Fourth Industrial Revolution”. Compared to the previous subjects which were general economic issues such as low economic growth rate, interregional...

Higher technical-education institutions play an important role in training industrial scientists and engineers and generating new technologies. How well they perform this role, however, depends on their ability to recruit and retain talented faculty who have alternative options in industry;...

Early-stage technology startups rely critically on talented scientists and engineers to commercialize new technologies. And yet, they compete with large technology firms to hire the best workers. Theories of ability sorting predict that high ability workers will choose jobs in established firms...

We estimate gender differences in elicited wage expectations among German University students applying for STEM and non-STEM fields. Descriptively, women expect to earn less than men and also have lower expectations about wages of average graduates across different fields. Using a two-step...

Why was the Industrial Revolution successful at generating sustained growth? Some have argued that there was a fundamental change in the way that new technology was developed during this period, but evidence for this argument remains largely anecdotal. This paper provides direct quantitative...

Purpose: Research to improve co-creation in engineering and technopreneurial orientation is required to support the energy transition toward sustainability. This challenge is aimed at power system expert engineers, whose central role in the electricity sector is becoming increasingly complicated...

Acknowledgements -- Statement of Authorship -- Chapter 1 Introduction to Gender Diversity in Engineering -- Chapter 2 Experience of High School Students and Engineering Student Recruitment -- Chapter 3 Gender Differences in Undergraduate Engineering -- Chapter 4 Multi-Campus Exploration of...

In recent years, crowdfunding has attracted the attention of tech startups. It has become a good alternative way to readily raise funds, especially during the early startup stages. However, in the case of mass intelligence, it is quite difficult to ensure the accuracy and reliability of...

Conventional wisdom holds that the social rate of return to R&D significantly exceeds the private rate of return and, therefore, R&D should be subsidized. In the U.S., the government has directly funded a large fraction of total R&D spending. This paper shows that there is a serious problem with...

This paper is about improving employability skills among youth, particularly among engineering students. It focusses on the skills required by industry, particularly the IT industry, and ways and means to develop those required skills among the students to make them more employable. It tries to...

We develop a theoretically grounded framework to explain the stylized fact that immigrants launch a disproportionate number of startups in high technology industries. We examine how immigration-related institutional constraints in the US shape early career choices of immigrants, with subsequent...

This paper develops four propositions that show that changes in the global job market for science and engineering (S&E) workers are eroding US dominance in S&E, which diminishes comparative advantage in high tech production and creates problems for American industry and workers: (1) The U.S....

This paper suggests that innovation policy in the United States has erred by subsidizing the private sector demand for scientists and engineers without asking whether the educational system provides that supply response necessary for these subsidies to work. It suggests that the existing...

In recent years, crowdfunding has attracted the attention of tech startups. It has become a good alternative way to readily raise funds, especially during the early startup stages. However, in the case of mass intelligence, it is quite difficult to ensure the accuracy and reliability of...

The relationship between training and firm-level employment adjustment given an unanticipated fall in product demand has been central to human capital theory. The most cataclysmic negative output shock occurred in 1929/30. At this time, easily the most important source of United Kingdom general...

Personnel records are used to examine compensation, recruitment, and retention of a group of very highly skilled workers: civilian scientists and engineers in U.S. Department of Defense laboratories. In contrast to the private sector, returns to skills were largely flat for this group from...

This paper offers the first systematic historical evidence on the role of a central actor in modern growth theory - the engineer. It collects cross-country and state level data on the labor share of engineers for the Americas, and county level data on engineering and patenting for the US during...

PART 1: 1774-1800 -- Chapter 1. The Extent of Steam Power Diffusion in Britain, 1774-1800: A Revision -- Chapter 2. Engineering Skills and the Efficiency of Steam Engines During Watt’s Patent -- Chapter 3. The Annual Cost of Watt vs. Newcomen Engines During the Duration of Watt’s Patent and...

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- To the Reader -- Foreword by Durward K. Sobek II. -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I The Problem -- Chapter 1 The Female Engineer Retention Challenge -- Factors Inhibiting Girls and Women from...

Née en 1963 pour porter les revendications des salariés qualifiés à responsabilités, l'Ugict-CGT est vite devenue un outil précieux pour contribuer au regroupement d'un salariat soumis aux politiques néolibérales qui ne cessent de le diviser. Tandis que la CGT représente le monde du...

We document that since 1997, the rate of startup formation has precipitously declined for firms operated by U.S. PhD recipients in science and engineering. These are supposedly the source of some of our best new technological and business opportunities. We link this to an increasing burden of...

Understanding of intrapreneurship as a phenomenon is somewhat fragmented and inconsistent especially in the case of engineers or engineering firms. This paper seeks to assess the relevant intellectual territory of intrapreneurship or corporate entrepreneurship (CE) by taking a systematic review...