1st Edition

Champions of Technological Change How Organizations Successfully Implement New Technology

By Theresa M. Szczurek Copyright 1994
    234 Pages
    by Routledge

    234 Pages
    by Routledge

    Originally published in 1994 this book concerns successful implementation of radical, technological innovations within business organizations. It extends and unifies paradigms for understanding implementation of radical innovations by modeling roles and interactions between key vending and buying firm players. It focuses on how interaction between certain players in buying and vending organizations affects successful implementation of the innovation and investigates the relationships between the user, buying change agent and vending change agent.

    1. Introduction 2. Prior Research 3. Theoretical Framework and Hypotheses 4. Research Methodology 5. Summary of Findings 6. Forces Affecting User Satisfaction 7. Buying Change Agent/User Satisfaction Relationship 8. Exchange/User Satisfaction Relationship 9. Moderator Effects of Individual Characteristics 10. Interaction/Exchange Relationship 11. Moderators on the Exchange/Interaction Relationship 12. Conclusion

    Biography

    Dr. Theresa M. Szczurek, through her consulting firm Technology and Management Solutions, LLC, helps ventures and leaders produce extraordinary results. Working over the last 25 years with established and emerging firms in worldwide marketing/sales, strategic planning, and organization/ leadership development, she generates creative solutions and reenergizes business plans, implementation programs, and workforces to positively impact the top and bottom-line.