Innovation by demand : an interdisciplinary approach to the study of demand and its role in innovation / / edited by Andrew McMeekin ... [et al.]
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| Autore: |
McMeekin Andrew
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| Titolo: |
Innovation by demand : an interdisciplinary approach to the study of demand and its role in innovation / / edited by Andrew McMeekin ... [et al.]
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| Pubblicazione: | Manchester ; ; New York, : Manchester University Press, : Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave, 2002 |
| Manchester : , : Manchester University Press, , [2018] | |
| ©2002 | |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (214 pages) : charts, tables; digital file(s) |
| Disciplina: | 338.064 |
| Soggetto topico: | Consumption (Economics) |
| Consumption (Economics) - Sociological aspects | |
| Demand (Economic theory) | |
| Diffusion of innovations | |
| Supply and demand | |
| Altri autori: |
McMeekinAndrew
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| 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Innovation by demand |
| ISBN: | 1-84779-552-8 |
| 1-5261-3744-5 | |
| 1-78170-027-3 | |
| 1-84779-052-6 | |
| 1-4175-9053-X | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910146881003321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
New dynamics of innovation and competition.