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

提案#9421272马萨诸塞州有效使用环境意识制造(ECM)工具的关键在于工具的设计，以及理解和设计实施工具的组织环境。基于之前麻省理工学院项目团队(以及其他人)对企业环境创新的研究，后一个方面，组织因素，被认为更重要。使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设计工具的使用的理解，该项目将通过大型行业调查和我们工业合作伙伴工厂的协调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业领袖项目的成员，已经开始使用ECM，但还没有在所有设施中使用。这种情况提供了一个独特的机会，可以审查在试前-试后形式中采用和使用的不同方法。通过采用多种方法，这项研究将产生对环境管理系统及其内部联系的理解。研究应：促进ECM设计工具的采用{符号183\f“符号”}改进工具的使用，并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.