Future Firms: How America's High Technology Companies Work

by Eric J. Bolland and Charles W. Hofer

America's fastest-growing cutting-edge companies, high-technology businesses, have been celebrated and popularized but not well understood. This comprehensive examination of high-technology businesses explores over 100 high-technology ventures and another 200 high-technology firms to discover what work is done, who does it, how it is done, and the business performance results of these activities.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195104366
• ISBN13: 9780195104363
• Release Date: July 1998
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.5" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

A truly unique and professional work...

I had been looking for a book like this for quite a while...This book is not for everyone.It is a well written work that helps to understand the concept of High-Technology... (if you think you have a good understanding... read it, you may be surprised)An extensive analysis on the concepts, people and companies that make it happen.Essential if you need to PROPERLY understand the concept of a High-technology company.A must if you're into the High-Tech market, and are dead serious about it.It's a big book... worth every page.

A Pathway for Professional Growth

This is a great book for the millions of Americans and international professionals whose jobs and professional growth rely on the survival and growth of technology-intensive firms. Eric Boland and Charles Hofer have made a significant contribution by addressing many paradoxes related to "high technology" firms. Unfortunately, the popular media has done a disservice by using the term `technology' and `information technology' interchangeably. Particularly noteworthy, therefore, is that these authors, bringing complimentary skills, give many lucid examples of technology-intensive firms that are not directly related to the computer or information technology. Eric Boland helps us with his insight into the inner workings of high-tech firms, and Charles Hofer has added his life-long pioneering of strategic and techno-entrepreneurial perspectives. The two have also successfully bridged the chasm between the academic researchers in technology and innovation management, and the practitioner managers facing the day-to-day fire-fighting in their fast changing and increasingly globalizing high-tech firms.