The Engineering-Business Nexus Symbiosis, Tension and Co-Evolution /

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Christensen, Steen Hyldgaard (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Delahousse, Bernard (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Didier, Christelle (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Meganck, Martin (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Murphy, Mike (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2019.
• Σειρά: Philosophy of Engineering and Technology, 32
• Θέματα: Professional education.; Vocational education.; Engineering ethics.; Business ethics.; Philosophy.; Professional & Vocational Education.; Engineering Ethics.; Business Ethics.; Philosophy of Technology.

Fascinating and compelling in equal measure this volume presents a critical examination of the multilayered relationships between engineering and business. In so doing the study also stimulates ethical reflection on how these relationships either enhance or inhibit strategies to address vital issues...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• General Introduction. The Nature, History and Context of the Engineering-Business Nexus (Steen Hyldgaard Christensen)
• Part I. Engineering and Business Value Systems
• Introduction (Christelle Didier)
• Chapter 1. Engineering and Management: The Odd Couple (Michael Davis)
• Chapter 2. Engineering and Business Ethics: Deconstructing Higher Aims of Professionalism (Christelle Didier)
• Chapter 3. Prisoners of the Capitalist Machine: Captivity and the Corporate Engineer (Edward Conlon)
• Chapter 4. Educating Engineer-Managers about Corporate Social Responsibility following the Montreal School's Perspective (Lovasoa Ramboarisata)
• Chapter 5. Actualization of Engineers' Professional Ideal in Quebec: Analysis of the Barriers (Luc Begin)
• Part II. Engineering and Business Ideologies Past and Present
• Introduction (Steen Hyldgaard Christensen)
• Chapter 6. Industry versus Business: Thorstein Veblen's Deconstruction of the Engineering-Business Nexus (Steen Hyldgaard Christensen)
• Chapter 7. The Sons of Martha vs. the Sons of Mary: Forging Iron and Finding Gold in Engineering and Business Ideologies (Janis Langins)
• Chapter 8. The Engineer, Entrepreneur and Economist in 1980s' Chinese Economic System Transformation (Li Bocong)
• Chapter 9. Influence of Environmental Discourses in Engineering Education for Sustainability (Charles McMahon)
• Chapter 10. Sustainability Management or Management Sustainability? (Martin Meganck)
• Chapter 11. The Maker Movement as Democratizing Innovation in China: Entrepreneurial Engineers at the Nexus of Technological Resourcefulness and Pragmatic Politics (Qin Zhu)
• Part III. The Practices of Business and Engineering
• Introduction (Mike Murphy)
• Chapter 12. Situating the Engineering-Business Nexus within an overall Societal Context: Engineering a challenging and challenged Profession (William Grimson)
• Chapter 13. Learning to practice Engineering in the World beyond School: The Experiences of newly hired Engineers in Business (Russell Korte)
• Chapter 14. Toward Lifelong Excellence: Navigating the Engineering-Business Space (Glen Miller)
• Chapter 15. Spending other People's Money: Creating Value in the Engineering Enterprise (Bill Williams)
• Chapter 16. Valuation and Market Creation: The Economic Dynamics of Socio-Material Change (Ulrik Jørgensen)
• Chapter 17. Technology and the Practice of Engineering (Erik W. Aslaksen)
• Chapter 18. Engineering Business: Inventing Problems for Technical Solutions - The Co-production of Institutions, Skills and Engineering Challenges (Anders Buch)
• Chapter 19. Business Benchmarking of Global Operations: The Case of Water and Energy Consumption in the Brewery Industry (Alan C. Brent)
• Part IV. Engineering and Business Education
• Introduction (Bill Williams)
• Chapter 20. Industry and the Development of a New System of Higher Technological Education in the UK 1955-66: A shared Responsibility? (John Heywood)
• Chapter 21. Tensions between Industry and Academia: Policy Making and Curriculum Development (John Heywood)
• Chapter 22. Business in Engineering Education: Issues, Hybrids, Identities and Limits? (Mike Murphy)
• Chapter 23. To what Ends: Engineering, Technology, and Business Program Perspectives as to their Key Purposes with Regard to the Society Housing Them (Michael J. Dyrenfurth)
• Chapter 24. Employability in Engineering Education: Are Engineering Students ready for Work? (Anette Kolmos).