پژوهش‌های ضروری در حوزه مدیریت فناوری

Now that we live in a world full of cutting-edge breakthroughs, technology management seems to be particularly essential. The Journal of Business Research has published a special issue entitled “Essential Research in Technology Management.” This special issue includes 11 papers. Six of them are from the 2007 Chinese Society for Management of Technology Annual Meeting and Conference held at Feng Chia University, Taiwan, while the other five are invited. All of them went through double-blind reviews and revisions. These papers contribute to various perspectives of technology management in different countries.

The discipline of technology management (TM) has a history of 50 years (Allen, 2004). TM has attracted attention from both academia and industry since the 1980s (Drejer, 1997), and has become a more self-sustained discipline in the last 20 years (Cetindamara et al., 2009). A popular definition describes TM as “a process, which includes planning, directing, control and coordination of the development and implementation of the technological capabilities to shape and accomplish the strategic and operational objectives of an organization” (NRC, 1987). The supposition is that TM fulfills the management needs of the technologies as well as to develop the implementation strategies according to the current and future conditions (Linn et al., 2000). The TM community has developed a wide range of theory and applications for both researchers and practitioners (Liao, 2005). As a consequence, the papers published in this JBR special issue cover various business strategies in TM. Six of them were presented at the 2007 Chinese Society for Management of Technology (CSMOT) Annual Meeting and Conference held at Feng Chia University, Taiwan. To extend the scope of the coverage, we invited five other papers from different countries. In the following sections, the conference is introduced and the papers are summarized. The reviewers are then acknowledged with thanks.