Management Practices in High-Tech Environments

The concept of innovation management and learning organizations concepts strongly emphasize the high role of human/intellectual capital in the company and the crucial function of knowledge in modern society. However there is often a paradox between managerial language and actual practice in many organizations: on one hand knowledge-workers are perceived as the most valued members of organizations while on the other they are being manipulated and “engineered”—commonly driven to burn-out and deprived of family life. All this leads to the emergence of new organizational phenomena that up to now have been insufficiently analyzed and described. Management Practices in High-Tech Environments studies this issue thoroughly from an international comparative cross-cultural perspective presenting cutting-edge research on management practices in American European Asian and Middle-Eastern high-tech companies with particular focus on fieldwork-driven but reflective contributions.