“THE GLOBAL COMPETITIVENESS IN MANAGEMENT OF TECHNOLOGY”

1.0 INTRODUCTION

1.1 Background of the report

Nowadays, Management of Technology (MoT) is known as an interdisciplinary field

that are focusing on a providing new system that integrates such many criteria towards
creating a income generator for an organization (Khalil, 2000). Wealth creation are the
primary factor that become the main focus in managing the technology. MoT implies
managing the systems that enable the creation, acquisition and exploitation of technology
which carries the responsibilities of spinning out technology to aid human endeavours and
satisfy customers’ needs. A customer is beneficiary and could be an individual, a corporation
or also government entity. Technology is approved if it can generates wealth when is
commercialized or used to achieve a desired strategic objective of an organization.

The increasing growth of technology used by worldwide form has made the term of
competitiveness to happen among the technology user. As well form the low form of entity,
until large and global organization are contending to be on top of the list of the form that
well-performed in their categories and production. Competitiveness also describe how
worldwide economic strength of countries or company with respects to their competitor in the
market. This brings the changes of how the big companies and organization are striving due
to management of technology has being one of the critical factors for an entity to be
successful.

As we all know, MoT is one of the biggest factor in order to generate wealth. Each of
one entity are striving with the aim to outperform their competitors. The entity could be a
person, corporation, organization, or country. Without mattering what entity are they, the
goal is to win in this competition. Competition whether in low level form or high level form
within and outside the country has intensified and increased in recent times making the term
become “global competitive”. In order to be a competitive form, several factors need to be set
forth such as ability to satisfy customer, aggressiveness in market, desire to win and also
commitment and also controlling resources. Being competitive means that a certain
organization need to produce and provide just in time and cost-effective, and also fulfill the
customer needs.
 Global competitiveness can bring such a lot of view. As an example, at the micro
level this competitiveness is based on the standards living of the citizens. On the corporation
level, the term is based on who can provide the best performances that suit with the needs of
customer in certain focus. All of this view is based on how the form managing the technology
and asset in order to make sure they win the competition.

There is a few research and writings about this topic. However there is no clear
indication on when this topic will gain attention and focus from the researcher out there.
There is a time when this topic rise as the main issue, there is also time when this topic go
low and gather no information. Thus, this report is done in order to identify who is the
dominant author that related with this topic. This report also want to study on how the author
is committed in this topic and problems.

1.2 Objective

In order to achieve the aim of the study, there are a few objective have been developed:

1. To identify and overcome the problems faces within the topic field.
2. To study the trend of studies release regarding the topic from time to time.
3. To recognize the dominant author and attain the main publisher on this topic.

1.3 Methodology

For this study, researcher makes the research report based on research journal. The
title that have been choose is “Global Competitiveness in Management of Technology”. This
means that researcher will search the journal that only related with the chosen topic.

The method being used in this study is by referring to the online databases journal
from the University Technology Malaysia’s (UTM) Library and Management of Technology
books. The databases journal used is from ScienceDirect, Emerald, SAGE and Scopus.

Researcher used the keyword which is “Competitiveness in Management of

Technology” and “Management of Technology advantages” to search for the related journal
to be analyse. Research journal are being choose from the range between years 2000 until
2018. The valid and related findings will be analyse, selected and the information of the
journal will be recorded based on the platform of four databases.

Next, the information collected will be analyse to study the trend of the topic, to
identify the dominant author together with the publisher information. List of the collected
data will be done to identify the frequency of the journal, author and year published. After
that, ranking table will be made to help finalizing the report.

Lastly, conclusion is made to determine whether the objective is achieved or not.

1.4 Approaches used

In order to achieve the objectives, a few approaches has been conducted:

Determine the topic which related with technology management.

Ask approval from lecturer about the topic

Research has been done by referring to the databases on related topic by using the
keyword of “global competitiveness in management of technology”.

Gather around the articles that is related with the topic and identify the authors.

Identifiy the trend of academic journal, dominant author and publisher

Conclude the research by highlighting the main author of the topic together with the
publisher.

2.0 FINDINGS

The analysis of the finding result was divided into three sections. The first one is trend
in academic writing in the chosen topic. Secondly, dominant author writing the chosen topic.
The third section focused on dominant journal publishing the chosen topic. Themes studied in
management literature in order to understand the research orientation and the main
observation lenses used by scholars.

2.1 Trend in Academic Writing

The result in the databases contain least information. The topic related with “The
Global Competitiveness in Management of Technology” still have a slow momentum and not
yet giving interest to become global scholar knowledges. In the recent year, the interest in the
topic start to warm up. Besides, several journals have published quite number of articles.
Table 1 shows the result of entire journal list of the 24 articles released each 3 years within 18
years from 2000 until 2018.

Number of articles
7

0
2000 - 2003 2004 - 2006 2007 - 2009 2010 - 2012 2013 - 2015 2016 - 2018
Number of articles

Graph 1: Trend of articles released within the research years

2.2 Dominant Author in the Chosen Topic

While assessing the journal, the author played important role in writing the the articles
that are related with the activities in Management of Technology. In term of the writing, the
articles wrote must have relation with the topic that have been choosed. The table below
show the author’s name together with their written articles. The data show that most of the
articles come from the collaboration between one or more authors.

Based on the information gathered, Richard Li-Hua has the most outcomes with 3
articles related with the topic of “Global Competitiveness in Management of Technology”
within the research year. As an example, one of the article entitled “What is Technology?” is
highlighted with the explanation of what is technology management activities about and how
it can give the competitive advantages. Richard Li-Hua also collaborated with others author
to make more academic writings and two of it is related with the topic focused.

The data also shows the second dominant author for this research which is the
collaboration between Dilek Cetindamar, Robert Phaal and David Probert with the outcomes
of two articles related with the topic. One of their articles entitled “Technology management
as a profession and the challenges ahead” which discuss about what will the current and
future field of managers will be faces. It also highlighted the potential impact of profession
and ability in the competitive environment to ensure the managers can prepare well to face
the challenges.

Number of Articles
4.5
4
3.5
3
2.5
2
1.5
1
0.5
0
Articles

Richard Li-Hua Dilek Cetindamar, Rober Phaal, David Provert

Graph 2: Dominant author and number of articles contributed

2.3 Dominant Journal on the chosen topic

All the journals shown in the table 3 are identified as the journals that published the
articles which discuss and study on how the Management of Technology being implemented
plus giving the competitive advantage towards the environment and global. Based on the
study, the journals that contributed the most in publishing the articles related with topics of
“Global Competitiveness in Management of Technology” is Technovation. There are also
other journals that following behind such as:

 Technological Forecasting and Social Change

 Journal of Engineering and Technology Management
 Journal of Manufacturing Technology Management
 Journal of Technology Management in China

The journals rank are determined by the number of related articles published within the
research year. The findings also highlighted the key activities of how can the technology
management give the organizations competitive advantages to maintain or gain the global
competitiveness in the particular field. The Technovation studied the readiness, preparation
of organizations or managers in how to faces the challenges of technology management,
competitive advantages and the development of technology.

Furthermore, all the other journals also have the important link regarding the global
competitiveness in technology management. As an example, Journal of International
Management published an article titled “Technology acquisition strategy in an internationally
competitive environment” that studied on how the technology management strategy can give
an impact on firm success. Next, the journal of Proceedia Engineering also published article
titled “Technology Transfer and World Competitiveness” which study about the technology
transfer as major aspect of a competitive environment in the economy.

NO JOURNALS ARTICLES
1. Journal of International Management 1
2. Technovation 5
3. The journal of High Technology Management research 1
4. Technological Forecasting and Social Change 3
5. Proceedia Engineering 1
6. Journal of Engineering and Technology Management 2
7. Procedia CIRP 1
8. Europian Management Journal 1
9. The journal of High Technology Management research 1
10. Journal of Knowledge-based Innovation in China 1
11. Journal of Manufacturing Technology Management 2
12. Benchmarking for Quality Management & Technology 1
13. World Journal of Entrepreneurship, Management and Sustainable 1
Development

14. Journal of Technology Management in China 2

15. Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Technology 1
Referring to the table 3, it is relevant to pick Technovation as the most relevant
journal due to its highest contribution towards understanding the term in management of
technology and its competitive advantage towards the economy.
 Table 3: The name of journals and number of articles

3.0 DISCUSSION OF SUBTOPIC

Based on the research, various articles discuss different topics regarding the global
competitiveness in technology management. Some of the articles discuss about the
challenges, technology management framework etc but the most relevant discussion is about
how technology management give the competitive advantage towards the economics. Some
of the subtopic that are being discussed by the articles is:

 Technology Acquisition
Referring to the articles from Aldor Lanctot, “Technology Acquisition strategy in an
internationally competitive environment” with the collaboration with K. Scott Swan.
This articles is aiming examines the technology strategies in the multinational firms
operating in the United States market. They also discuss about the impact of
technology management, key activities and determined whether the process give
negative impact towards their organizations.

 Technology Management Framework

An articles “Understanding technology management as a dynamic capability: A
framework for technology management activities” discuss about understanding the
technology management activities. It defined how technology are continuously
creating new challenges and opportunities. The article also talks about the dynamic
capability theories in order to develop more better process and resource for managing
the technology.

 Competitive Advantage
The articles of “The role of technology development in national competitiveness —
Evidence from Southeast Asian countries” discussed on how the technology
development play important role in national competitiveness of the organizations. It
also studies how technology development helps to creates pattern that could be
implemented by each countries and important issue that need to be focus on.
4.0 Conclusion

The past two decade witnesses the moving forward of technology management
development and changes. These situation bring new challenges to be face by organization.
This research found that the organizations are need to pursue successful technology
management in order to gain the competitive advantage in local stages and also global stages.
The continuous change of the technology is forcing change in business practices and
organizational structures (Khalil, 2000). Therefore, this drive the global economies to strive
the technology management successfully to confirm the advantage is gain.

Therefore, through this study it is identified that the trend about the global
competitiveness in management of technology is increase from years to years. The world
business and organization environment started to become aware of this topic as it brings
benefit and important impacts towards the development in facing technology management
challenges. The domain authors for this topic is also identified by looking through their
concern and contribution to make the better understanding for organizations structure to gain
the competitive advantages. The journal which publish the related topic is also identified to
look through which journal are more focus in studying the main topic of the global
competitiveness in technology management.
REFERENCES

Khalil, Tarek. (2000). Khalil, Tarek, 2000. Management of Technology: The Key to
Competitiveness and Wealth Creation McGraw Hill, New York, N.Y.ISBN 0-07-
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