Future Firms: How America's High Technology Companies Work
America's fastest-growing cutting-edge companies, high-technology businesses, have been celebrated and popularized but not well understood. This comprehensive examination of high-technology businesses explores over 100 high-technology ventures and another 200 high-technology firms to discover what work is done, who does it, how it is done, and the business performance results of these activities. Starting with commonly-used definitions of technology-based business, authors Eric Bolland and Charles W. Hofer establish the scope of science- and engineering-based firms. They trace the history of high technology to World War II defense research, and show that the term "high technology" is itself much more recent. In-depth on-site visits to several high-technology firms, including industrial giant Hewlett Packard, reveal the inner workings of these companies. Interviews with key venture capitalists show how they help launch firms, continue capitalizing them, and decide which companies to support. Bolland and Hofer examine how issues such as size, location, local governments, and available resources affect these firms. High-technology companies are truly "future firms" leading the way to innovation for all businesses. This book shows how that happens.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0195104366
ISBN13:9780195104363
Release Date:July 1998
Publisher:Oxford University Press, USA
Length:416 Pages
Weight:1.65 lbs.
Dimensions:1.4" x 6.5" x 9.5"
Customer Reviews
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A truly unique and professional work...
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 22 years ago
I had been looking for a book like this for quite a while...This book is not for everyone.It is a well written work that helps to understand the concept of High-Technology... (if you think you have a good understanding... read it, you may be surprised)An extensive analysis on the concepts, people and companies that make it happen.Essential if you need to PROPERLY understand the concept of a High-technology company.A must if you're into the High-Tech market, and are dead serious about it.It's a big book... worth every page.
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Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 22 years ago
This is a great book for the millions of Americans and international professionals whose jobs and professional growth rely on the survival and growth of technology-intensive firms. Eric Boland and Charles Hofer have made a significant contribution by addressing many paradoxes related to "high technology" firms. Unfortunately, the popular media has done a disservice by using the term `technology' and `information technology' interchangeably. Particularly noteworthy, therefore, is that these authors, bringing complimentary skills, give many lucid examples of technology-intensive firms that are not directly related to the computer or information technology. Eric Boland helps us with his insight into the inner workings of high-tech firms, and Charles Hofer has added his life-long pioneering of strategic and techno-entrepreneurial perspectives. The two have also successfully bridged the chasm between the academic researchers in technology and innovation management, and the practitioner managers facing the day-to-day fire-fighting in their fast changing and increasingly globalizing high-tech firms.
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