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Reassessing technological choices
Human Systems Management, 1986Some modern technology has made work less meaningful for large numbers of people; it has reduced freedom of choice for both managers and employees and imposed inappropriate decisions on organizations. At the same time, technological advances can be beneficial and make work less onerous and more flexible.
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CRITERIA FOR TECHNOLOGICAL CHOICE
Public Administration, 1987This paper examines the question of what factors determine whether a hazardous activity is ‘acceptable’. We conclude that there is no simple answer to this question which can be derived from risk analysis, but that qualitative criteria can be developed to help decisionmakers evaluate risk analysis results. A preliminary set of criteria is proposed.
HARRY OTWAY, D. L. SIMMS
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Technology choice under duopoly
Pacific Economic Review, 1999This paper presents a conjectural variation approach to demonstrate that competing firms will often distort their cost structures away from strict cost minimization for strategic reasons. In particular, it is shown that the nature of the desired distortions of production technology depends critically on the magnitudes of the firms' conjectural ...
Chao‐Cheng Mai, Hong Hwang
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Modeling Choice Between Competing Technologies
2014Even though there is a rich and extensive literature on the individual adoption of technologies, limited attention has been placed on the choice of one among competing alternatives, which the authors posit as an essential antecedent to the individual acceptance decision that has been considered in the past.
Miguel I. Aguirre-Urreta +1 more
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2016
In late 2000s, Wells Fargo, a large US bank, asked themselves a profoundly important, yet very simple, question: “If our clients find it profitable to borrow money from us to install solar panels on their roofs, shouldn’t we find it profitable too?”
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In late 2000s, Wells Fargo, a large US bank, asked themselves a profoundly important, yet very simple, question: “If our clients find it profitable to borrow money from us to install solar panels on their roofs, shouldn’t we find it profitable too?”
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Choices for technological resources
International Journal of Technology Management, 1997This paper shows how technology had to look to new directions of development to meet the current industrial context characteristics i.e. the changes of demand specifications. Needs for equipment flexibility, quality control and products electronisation are described.
D. Verheve, S. Lehoucq
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2013
A new framework for assessing the role of information and communication technologies in development that draws on Amartya Sen's capabilities approach. Information and communication technologies (ICTs)—especially the Internet and the mobile phone—have changed the lives of people all over the world.
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A new framework for assessing the role of information and communication technologies in development that draws on Amartya Sen's capabilities approach. Information and communication technologies (ICTs)—especially the Internet and the mobile phone—have changed the lives of people all over the world.
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1977
This book is about the impact of technology on development. That impact depends on the technology in use in underdeveloped countries, which is a function of the technology available to the country, and the choice made from the total available. This chapter is concerned to discuss the nature of the technological choice.
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This book is about the impact of technology on development. That impact depends on the technology in use in underdeveloped countries, which is a function of the technology available to the country, and the choice made from the total available. This chapter is concerned to discuss the nature of the technological choice.
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Choice of Technological Futures
1983Ethical problems arlslng from technological activity; a code of ethics for engineers?; broad categories of technology (advanced technology, alternative technology, why advanced technology will prevail).
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Investment and Technology Choice
1989Ghana provides a rather unique example of a developing country which, after a successful start on the course of development by raising its savings and investment ratios to high levels in the post-independence period, saw these fall to very low levels. Total saving and its division between domestic and foreign saving were discussed in Chapter 13.
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