Title: Modelling successful technology implementation

Authors: H. Noori

Addresses: Research Centre for Management of Advanced Technology/Operations (REMAT), School of Business Administration, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, N2L 3C5, Canada

Abstract: The design by a firm to invest in advanced manufacturing technology is based on the expectations of at least a market return on the investment within the competitive marketplace. In this paper, a conceptual model is proposed describing the sequential relationship between new technology investment and profitability. The model is based on an empirical study of Canadian manufacturing companies undertaken recently. In a broader sense, the investment and implementation of new technology will affect many factors that can be captured under three general categories: (i) technical, (ii) human organizational, and (iii) strategic. Each of these three categories contains a number of components which could, in turn, affect profitability sources independently in combination with components in one of the other categories.

Keywords: advanced manufacturing technology; AMT implementation; competition; innovation; productivity; profitability; survey; conceptual modelling; new technology investment; AMT investment.

DOI: 10.1504/IJVD.1995.061925

International Journal of Vehicle Design, 1995 Vol.16 No.2/3, pp.101 - 125

Published online: 28 May 2014 *

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