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Spectacular Flops
Michael B. Schiffer
其他書名
Game-changing Technologies that Failed
出版Eliot Werner Publications, Incorporated, 2019
主題Business & Economics / Corporate Finance / GeneralPsychology / GeneralScience / HistoryTechnology & Engineering / HistoryTechnology & Engineering / InventionsTechnology & Engineering / Systems Engineering
ISBN09898249939780989824996
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=5jLlvAEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋Many technologies begin life as someone's vision of an ambitious, perhaps audacious, technology that is expected to have a revolutionary impact on consumers-whether families, companies, or societies. However, if this highly touted technology fails "prematurely" at some point in its life history, it becomes a spectacular flop. Employing a behavioral perspective, this book presents a sample of twelve spectacular flops encompassing the past three centuries-ranging from the world's first automobile to the nuclear-powered bomber. Because technologies may fail from many different causes, spectacular flops pose a special challenge to the author's long-term project of furnishing generalizations about technological change. Instead of constructing generalizations that apply to all spectacular flops, this book provides limited generalizations that pertain to particular groups of technologies bounded by parameters such as "long-term development projects" and "one-off projects." The reader need have no prior familiarity with the technologies because basic principles are introduced as needed.