Barriers of Technology Management: an Ism Approach

The management of technology is acquiring a distinctive character and increasingly being recognized as an activity that complements other managerial functions in providing the necessary inputs to the decision-making process. The factors harmful in the implementation of technology management are known as barriers. The objective of this paper is to develop the relationships among the identified TM barriers. Further, this paper is also helpful to understand mutual influence of barriers and identify those barriers which support other barriers (driving barriers) and also those barriers which are most influenced by other barriers (dependent barriers). The Interpretive Structure Modeling (ISM) methodology is used to evolve mutual relationship among these barriers. TM barriers have been classified, based on their driving power and dependence power.