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The article uses the insights of the process approach for research in technology management in companies. The goal set was the identification of activities in the area of technology management taking their processual nature into account; the identified research was contrasted with technology management models available in the literature in the field. The case study method was used in the research. Research was conducted in two companies in the metal processing industry. Two technology management processes were identified; sequences of activity as well as dependencies arising between them were described. The gap was shown between the models available in the literature and the actual course of the process of technology management. In the theoretical models, input and output are not defined; attention is not directed at decision points that are key in regard to the success of the process and the development of the company as a whole. In the discussion, the identified processes are evaluated and application recommendations are formulated.
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The research has been carried out in the framework of the work G/WZ/1/2016 and financed by the National Science Centre (agreement No. 2015/19/N/HS4/02576).
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Urban, W., Krawczyk-Dembicka, E. (2018). Case Studies of the Process-Oriented Approach to Technology Management. In: Hamrol, A., Ciszak, O., Legutko, S., Jurczyk, M. (eds) Advances in Manufacturing. Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68619-6_25
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