Management of Technological Innovation: Encouraging the Adoption and Effective Use of Tools for Environmentally Conscious Manufacturing

有效使用环保制造（ECM）工具的关键在于工具的设计，以及理解和设计实施这些工具的组织环境。根据项目团队（以及其他地方的其他人）之前在麻省理工学院对企业环境创新的研究，后一个方面，即组织因素，被认为是更重要的。利用与信息技术和创新相关的重要新发展，再加上团队对现有ECM设计工具使用的理解，该项目将通过大型行业调查和在我们的工业合作伙伴的工厂进行协调的纵向研究来研究这些工具的采用、使用和开发。参与的公司，UTC和摩托罗拉，都是麻省理工学院制造领导者计划的成员，已经开始使用ECM，但不是所有的工厂。这种情况提供了独特的机会，以测试前-测试后-测试的形式审查采用和使用的不同方法。通过采用多种方法，本研究将产生对ECM系统及其内部联系的理解。研究应该：{SYMBOL 183 \f " SYMBOL "}促进ECM设计工具的采用{SYMBOL 183 \f " SYMBOL "}改进工具的使用，以及{SYMBOL 183 \f " SYMBOL "}为使用这些工具的公司提供额外的好处。

Proposal # 9421272 Massachusetts Inst. of Technology The key to effective use of environmentally conscious manufacturing (ECM) tools rests both in the designing of the tools, and in understanding and designing the organizational context in which they are implemented. Based on previous research at MIT by the project team (and by others, elsewhere) on environmental innovation in firms, the latter aspect, organizational factors, is believed to be the more significant. Using important new developments that relate information technology and innovation, coupled with the team's understanding of the use of existing ECM design tools the project will study the adoption, use, and exploitation of these tools through a large industry survey and coordinated longitudinal studies at our industrial partners' plant. The participating firms, UTC and Motorola, both members of MIT's Leaders for Manufacturing program, have begun to use ECM, but not at all facilities. The situation poses unique opportunity to examine different approaches to adoption and use in a pretest-post test format. By employing multiple methodologies, the research will produce understanding of both the ECM system and its inner links. The research should: {SYMBOL 183 \f "Symbol"} Facilitate the adoption of ECM design tools {SYMBOL 183 \f "Symbol"} Improve the use of the tools, and {SYMBOL 183 \f "Symbol"} Provide additional benefits to the firms using them.