(Hardback)

Productivity, quality and competitiveness are all related to technology. This book discusses efficient management techniques and looks at the critical areas that can enhance the performance of a firm as a result of the adoption of new technologies.

(Hardback)

Environmental quality management is seen as a competitive strategy that could help a firm improve its bottom line. A great deal of attention is focused on how this could be achieved by adopting tools from total quality management, establishing environmental quality award programs, and conducting environmental quality assessment.

(Hardback)

Only when a systems perspective like this is adopted and technology seen as a strategic variable can technology transfer be understood and successfully implemented, says Madu.

Madu thus identifies the failures of technology transfer as the result of malfunctions in three components of the system: technology, structure, and behavior.