MANAGEMENT OF TECHNOLOGYSTRATEGIC DECISION BIAS BY ROLE IN FAILED TECHNOLOGY PROJECTSKENNETH ROSSON PENCEThesis under the direction of David M. DiltsThis empirical research examines how personnel, from different levels of an organization, reach decisions to terminate technical projects....

The objective of the research presented in this paper is to study the relationship between practices for managing external sources of information and the innovative performance of the enterprise. The research can be characterized as mostly quantitative. The data had been collected from a sample...

Senior managers must promote and impart the right information behaviors and values. They need to ensure that employees use customer, product, operational, and financial information to improve the company’s business performance. If they compromise integrity, falsify formal reports, cloak the...

Engineering knowledge has an important component (the tacit dimension) that is acquired, developed, and enhanced through practical experience, or — conversely — that is never obtained or is lost due to the lack of such on-the-job applications. In this paper, we investigate various dimensions...

The accelerated pace of technological change has led to rapid obsolescence of productive capacity in electronics and other industries. Managers must consider the impact of future technologies while making acquisition and replacement decisions in such environments. We consider a problem where a...