Innovation by demand [[electronic resource] ] : an interdisciplinary approach to the study of demand and its role in innovation / / edited by Andrew McMeekin ... [et al.]

• Record Nr.: UNISA996210691903316
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Manchester ; ; New York, : Manchester University Press, : Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave, 2002
• ISBN: 1-84779-552-8; 1-5261-3744-5; 1-78170-027-3; 1-84779-052-6; 1-4175-9053-X
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (214 pages) : charts, tables; digital file(s)
• Collana: New dynamics of innovation and competition
• Altri autori (Persone): McMeekinAndrew
• Disciplina: 338.064
• Soggetti: Consumption (Economics); Consumption (Economics) - Sociological aspects; Demand (Economic theory); Diffusion of innovations; Supply and demand
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.; First published: 2002.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 1. Innovation by demand? An introduction / Andrew McMeekin, Ken Green, Mark Tomlinson and Vivien Walsh -- 2. Social mechanisms generating demand: a review and manifesto / Alan Warde -- 3. There's more to the economics of consumption than (almost) unconstrained utility maximisation / G. M. Peter Swann -- 4. Variety, growth and demand / Pier Paolo Saviotti -- 5. Preferences and novelty: a multidisciplinary perspective / Wilhelm Ruprecht -- 6. Social routines and the consumption of food / Mark Tomlinson and Andrew McMeekin -- 7. Social categorisation and group identification: how African Americans shape their collective identity through consumption / Virág Molnár and Michèle Lamont -- 8. Hyperembedded demand and uneven innovation: female labour in a male-dominated service industry / ; Bonnie H. Erickson -- 9. Greening organisations: purchasing, consumption and innovation / Ken Green, Barbara Morton and Steve New -- 10. Information and communication technologies and the role of consumers in innovation / Leslie Haddon -- 11. The incorporation of user needs in telecom product design / Vivien Walsh, Carole Cohen and Albert Richards -- 12. Markets, supermarkets and the macro-social shaping of demand: an instituted economic process approach / Mark Harvey -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.