TY - JOUR
T1 - Modernizing innovations
T2 - Analysing their use and prospects in Brazil
AU - Rush, Howard
AU - Miles, Ian
AU - Ferraz, João Carlos
N1 - Funding Information:
The research reported in this paper was sponsored by SENAI (the Brazilian training agency). A comprehensive record of the research is published in book form, J. C. Ferraz, H. Rush and I. Miles, Development, Technology and Flexibility: Brazil Faces the Industrial Divide (London, Routledge, 1992). As discussed in M. Piore and C. Sabel, The Second Industrial Divide: Possibilities for Prosperity (New York, Basic Books, 1984); G. Dosi, ‘Technological paradigms and technological trajectories’, Research Policy, 11(3), 1982; C. Freeman and C. Perez ‘Structural crises of adjustment, business cycles and investment behaviour’, in C. Dosi et al (editors), Technical Change and Economic Theory (London, Frances Pinter, 1988); I. Miles, H. Rush, J. Bessant and K. Turner, information Horizons: The Long Term Social Implications of New Information Technology (Aldershot, Edward Elgar, 1988); J. Bessant, Managing Advanced Manufacturing Technology: The Challenge of the Fifth Wave (Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 1991). C. Edquist and J. Jacobsson, Flexible Automation: The Global Diffusion of New Technology in the Engineering industry (Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 1988); H. Rush and J. Bessant, ‘Revolution in three-quarters time: lessons from the diffusion of advanced manufacturing technologies’, Technology Analysis and Strategic Management, 4, 1992. C. Perez, ‘The present wave of technical change: implications for competitive restructuring and for institutional reform in developing countyies’, paper prepared for the strategic Planning Department of the World Bank, April 1989; K. Hoffman, ‘New approaches to best practice manufacturing: the role of transnational corporations and implications for developing countries’,
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PY - 1992/12
Y1 - 1992/12
N2 - A recent study, conducted in Brazil, has investigated the difusion of new technologies and new organizational techniques-both important facets of the emerging technoeconomic paradigm-in the context of a newly industrializing country. In addition to examining current levels of use of these innovations in leading firms, it examines the expectations of managers as to future prospects for their use, and the implications for employment, training and competitive circumstances. As well as presenting methodological innovations, this article reports on the empirical results-indicating considerable uptake of some elements of the new paradigm, but less effort with respect to others-and develops scenarios for the future of the Brazilian economy.
AB - A recent study, conducted in Brazil, has investigated the difusion of new technologies and new organizational techniques-both important facets of the emerging technoeconomic paradigm-in the context of a newly industrializing country. In addition to examining current levels of use of these innovations in leading firms, it examines the expectations of managers as to future prospects for their use, and the implications for employment, training and competitive circumstances. As well as presenting methodological innovations, this article reports on the empirical results-indicating considerable uptake of some elements of the new paradigm, but less effort with respect to others-and develops scenarios for the future of the Brazilian economy.
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U2 - 10.1016/0016-3287(92)90134-2
DO - 10.1016/0016-3287(92)90134-2
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0027085098
SN - 0016-3287
VL - 24
SP - 1003
EP - 1023
JO - Futures
JF - Futures
IS - 10
ER -
