Innovation by demand : an interdisciplinary approach to the study of demand and its role in innovation /
Sociologists and economists are increasingly interested in understanding the patterns and drivers of technological innovation. This book brings together a range of experts to study the role of demand and consumption in the innovative process, including case studies to illustrate the issues raised.
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| Language: | English |
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Manchester ; New York :
Manchester University Press : Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave,
2002.
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| Series: | New dynamics of innovation and competition.
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Table of Contents:
- Innovation by demand?: an introduction / Andrew McMeekin, Ken Green, Mark Tomlinson and Vivien Walsh
- Social mechanisms generating demand: a review and manifesto / Alan Warde
- There's more to the economics of consumption than (almost) unconstrained utility maximisation / G.M. Peter Swann
- Variety, growth and demand / Pier Paolo Saviotti
- Preferences and novelty: a multidisciplinary perspective / Wilhelm Ruprecht
- Social routines and the consumption of food / Mark Tomlinson and Andrew McMeekin
- Social categorisation and group identification: how African-Americans shape their collective identity through consumption / Virág Molnár and Michèle Lamont
- Hyperembedded demand and uneven innovation: female labour in a male-dominated service industry / Bonnie H. Erickson
- Greening organisations: purchasing, consumption and innovation / Ken Green, Barbara Morton and Steve New
- Information communication technologies and the role of consumers in innovation / Leslie Haddon
- The incorporation of user needs in telecom product design / Vivien Walsh, Carole Cohen and Albert Richards
- Markets, supermarkets and the macro-social shaping of demand: an instituted economic process approach / Mark Harvey.
