The engineering-business nexus : symbiosis, tension and co-evolution /: symbiosis, tension and co-evolution. ([2019])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Steen Hyldgaard Christensen, Bernard Delahousse, Christelle Didier, Martin Meganck, Mike Murphy, editors ; foreword by Carl Mitcham.
• Editors: Hyldgaard Christensen, Steen; Delahousse, Bernard; Didier, Christelle; Meganck, Martin; Murphy, Mike
• Contents: 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).
• Publisher Details: Cham : Springer
• Publication Date: 2019
• Copyright Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations
• Subjects: 624; Education; Engineering -- Economic aspects; Capitalism; Engineering ethics; Business ethics; Philosophy; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Civil / General; Capitalism; Engineering -- Economic aspects; Philosophy -- Ethics & Moral Philosophy; Business & Economics -- Business Ethics; Philosophy -- Reference; Ethics & moral philosophy; Business ethics & social responsibility; Philosophy; Education -- Counseling -- Vocational Guidance; Industrial or vocational training; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319996363; 3319996363
• Related ISBNs: 9783319996356
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references.; Note: Online resource ; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed November 19, 2018).
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