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Management Of Technology Mini-track

NRC (National Research Council) released in 1987 a well-known and insightful document intitled “ Management of Technology: The Hidden Competitive Advantage”. The document has spurred renewed interest from both scholars and practitioners in the management of technology, a multidisciplinary, dynamic and fast growing field of inquiry. The four papers presented in this mini-track representative of this field since they cover wideranging issues from an international perspective. The first paper by Eric van Hcek and Pieter Ribbers focuses on factors linked to the adoption and implementation of EDI in the context of small firms. Their work is based on empirical evidence from 137 small firms in the Netherlands. In the second paper, Manuela Faia-Correia, Gerardo Petriotta, Martin Brigham and J. Martin Corbett examine the importance of organizational back ups when reconfiguring technology in a telemediated environment. Their observations are based on an in-depth case study conducted in a large and longestablished Portuguese credit bank. The third paper by Elisabeth Lefebvre, Louis-A. Lefebvre and Lise Préfontaine analyses the role of R&D related capabilities as determinants of export performance. Empirical evidence from 202 R&D intensive Canadian SMEs indicates then the more advanced stages of internationalization require broader, more aggressive and externally oriented R&D capabilities. The fourth and final paper by Hans J. Thamhain examines how project performance is influenced by leadership style and the integration of management tools in the case of complex self-directed team environments. The study analyses data from 400 project professionals working in large technologybased multinational companies from the “Fortune-1000” category. Proceedings of the 32nd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences 1999