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A Managerial Philosophy of Technology: Technology and Humanity in Symbiosis
Author(s): Geoff Crocker (Author)
- Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
- Publication Date: September 4, 2012
- Language: English
- Print length: 232 pages
- ISBN-10: 0230389147
- ISBN-13: 9780230389144
Book Description
A Managerial Philosophy of Technology offers a unique combination of a review of academic work in the philosophy of technology with practical methodologies for business management of technology strategy. It is thus conceptual and practical, academic and managerial. The author develops a radical new systems network concept which shows how the symbiosis between humanity and technology is mediated through science, the economy, productivity, and social structure. It is of interest to academics, technology management professionals, and science policy makers.
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About the Author
GEOFF CROCKER is Practitioner and Theorist in the Philosophy and Management of Technology. He holds a first class degree in Economics from Durham University, UK, and an MA in the Philosophy and History of Science from Bristol University, UK. Following an initial career with Rolls Royce UK, he then worked extensively internationally, advising multinational industry clients in technology market strategies, including International Business Machines, Yamaha, Asea Brown Boveri, as well as a wide range of small and medium enterprises. Over the last twenty years he has focused on the rapid development of the Russian industrial economy, working to develop and implement corporate strategies for major clients in many sectors of the economy.
