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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McMeekin, Andrew, author.

Contributor:

McMeekin, Andrew.

Series:

New dynamics of innovation and competition.

New dynamics of innovation and competition

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Consumption (Economics).

Consumption (Economics)--Sociological aspects.

Demand (Economic theory).

Diffusion of innovations.

Supply and demand.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (214 pages) : charts, tables; digital file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press, [2018]

Language Note:

English

System Details:

data file

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

First published: 2002.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9781847795526

1847795528

9781526137449

1526137445

9781781700273

1781700273

9781847790521

1847790526

9781417590537

141759053X

OCLC:

232158229

Access Restriction:

Unrestricted online access