Quiz 4 Flashcards
Making synergies between sustainability and technology developments can be a source of:
Reduced inputs and better products
Intermediate technology was originally articulated by
Schumpeter
Distributed “phronesis” in the sense of Aristotle emerges from companies that pursue:
A universal ideal and a particular reality
The key stakeholders of the “Save the Planet Debate” include:
Activists, governments, firms
Designing sustainable products thanks to technologies means that:
Products with lowest carbon footprint
New research findings by Nidulomu (2009) demonstrate that sustainability-driven technology brings:
Both bottom and top-lines returns
Efforts to regulated technology development aims at:
Maintaining the resource system
The precautionary principle to limit unintended consequence of technology developments relies on 2 pilars:
Regulation efforts and responsibilities of technology developers
Demonstration and small scale experiments must:
Gather small players only
Adaptive management means that to manage our built environment and production systems, we are:
Ready and able to modify our ways of acting
If its already said that side effects of IoT could be related to:
Cybersecurity
Side effect of CAFO:
To stress animals
Currently how do most firms get involved in more sustainable technology-developments?
Through
Corporate Social Responsibility
A good experimentation of technology and its possible unintended consequences should encompass
The lifecycle from raw materials to their recycling
Adaptive management requires to develop skills in monitoring learn about:
The impact of our management actions
Nidulomu’s path to sustainable technology developments, creating next practice platforms is about:
Experimenting with all stakeholders
The most hopeful technologists optimists in the face of increasing sustainability challenges state that:
It is still a big issue to address
According to the LYF shoe presentation, it seems to you that:
Create a profitable business with a sustainability orientation is possible if traditional business models change
Appropriate technology is also labeled:
Intermediate technology
Adaptive management enables managers to select technology with a sustainability-driven approach thanks to:
Experimenting with local stakeholders
A pattern of unsustainable technology development practices deals with problems of:
Societal destruction in the end
What are the main features of appropriate technology ?
Smallscale, labor intensive, locally autonomous
Sustainability-driven technology development are a source of:
Additional revenue
Efforts to regulated technology development aims that at:
Maintaining the resource system
The path to sustainability-driven technology developments by Nidulomu et al. (2009) is made of:
5 steps
Technology promise is at the crossroads between:
human needs and new tech-capabilities
Managers’belief about technology is that it is:
a lever of competitiveness
A good experimentation of technology and its possible unintended consequences should encompass:
the lifecycle from raw materials to their recycling
In 2007, Nonaka et al. state that effective strategic management processes require:
distributed wisdom
Courbe en S de Roger :
courbe de diffusion de l’innovation.
The probit model of diffusion underlines that
Firms might be willing to slow down the diffusion
