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Record Nr.

UNINA9910797571903321

Autore

Clark Peter A.

Titolo

Anglo-American innovation / / Peter A. Clark

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, [Germany] ; ; New York, [New York] : , : Walter De Gruyter, , 1987

©1987

ISBN

3-11-085750-2

Edizione

[Reprint 2015]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (416 pages) : illustrations

Collana

de Gruyter Studies in Organization ; ; 9

Disciplina

338/.06

Soggetti

Technological innovations - Great Britain - Management

Technological innovations - United States - Management

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Part I. Introduction -- 1 The Agenda -- Part II. Evolvement of Innovations: Shape and Uses -- 2 State of Theory -- 3 Innovation Supply: The Marketing and Imitation Models -- 4 Technology as Process: Trajectories and Life Cycles -- 5 The Corporate User: Innovation-Design Capacity -- Part IIΙ. Anglo-American Patterns of Organizing -- 6 Transatlantic Evolvement I: Americans and the Absorption Gap -- 7 Economy, Structuration and Region: A Basic Framework -- 8 British Systems of Organizing: Contexts and Directions into the First Divide -- 9 American Systems of Organizing: The Early Foundations -- 10 The American Market: A Key Base from 1870 to the 1960s -- 11 British Systems of Organizing: A Case of Incomplete Modernization? -- 12 Transatlantic Evolvement II: Britain and the Appropriation Gap -- Part IV. Implications -- 13 Japan and the Pacific Rim: The New Competition -- 14 Summary and Implications -- References -- 16 Author Index -- 17 Subject Index