Innovation, Research and Development Management

Table of contents

1. Cover
2. Foreword
3. General Introduction
   1. I.1. Managing R&D and innovation: current and critical issues
   2. I.2. A book on R&D management of large industrial enterprises
   3. I.3. A descriptive and analytical book aimed at a wide audience
   4. I.4. Structure of the book
4. 1 R&D and New Competitive Challenges: Between Intensive Innovation Strategy and Internationalization
   1. 1.1. Strategy and R&D
   2. 1.2. Environmental factors influencing business strategies in R&D and their consequences
   3. 1.3. R&D strategies tested overseas: the example of China
   4. 1.4. Conclusion
5. 2 Work in R&D and its Transformations
   1. 2.1. Specifics of R&D work and its heterogeneity
   2. 2.2. The main transformations of R&D work since 1990
   3. 2.3. Current tensions and open questions as to the future of work in R&D
   4. 2.4. Conclusion
6. 3 Rationalization and Creativity: R&D under Pressure
   1. 3.1. Permanent rationalizations and reduction of available resources in R&D
   2. 3.2. Creativity: between individual attribute and social process
   3. 3.3. Ingredients and negative effects of slack reductions on creativity
   4. 3.4. Mechanisms linking slack reduction and creativity
   5. 3.5. Conclusion
7. 4 Managing R&D Professionals: HRM Practices and Current Challenges
   1. 4.1. HRM and R&D: complex relationships
   2. 4.2. HRM development in R&D today
   3. 4.3. The new challenges of HRM in R&D
   4. 4.4. Conclusion
8. 5 Collective Expertise: Forms and Methods of Management
   1. 5.1. Collective expertise in R&D
   2. 5.2. Two forms of structuring: “horizontal” and “vertical”
   3. 5.3. Conclusion
9. 6 Performance Management in R&D
   1. 6.1. Performance in R&D
   2. 6.2. Budgetary control of R&D departments
   3. 6.3. Innovation project management control
   4. 6.4. Conclusion
10. Bibliography
11. Index
12. End User License Agreement