Managing Technological Development

ISBN-13: 9780415285728 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 288 str.

Hakan Hakansson; David H. J. Larmour; Alexandra Waluszewski

Opis

What happens when one of the world's largest buyers of catalogue paper, IKEA, realizes that the paper it uses contradicts the demands of prominent environmental groups? How do the producers of catalogue paper react when IKEA demands an environmentally friendly green catalogue paper, requiring the development of new production processes for an entirely new product? In this book, the story of how IKEA and its paper producers struggled to solve the problem of creating environmentally friendly paper constitutes the foundation of a discussion of technological development.

Spis treści

1. How to Cope with Development in a Developing World 2. Interaction and Resource Development 3. Managing Resources Merged into 'Basic' Technologies - How to Utilise and Develop a Facility and its Products 4. Managing a Greening Demand - Changes in the Image of a Technology 5. Initiating Change - the Development of a 'lead2 User' 6. Managing Change Through Interaction - the Advantage of Being Small 7. Managing Change Through Interaction - Taking Advantage of Being Big 8. Living with Change - Utilising Possibilities in Path Dependence 9. Living with Change - Handling Increased Variety Through 'Wait and See' 10. Living with Change - Through Moving Resources Characterised by heaviness and Variety 11. Empirical Experiences Concerning Interfaces between Resources 12. Interacting Resources Creating Friction

O autorze

Håkan Håkansson is an internationally recognised researcher within the business-to-business field. He has published a number of books and articles within industrial marketing, purchasing and technological development, and is one of the founding members of IMP.
Alexandra Walusewski is a researcher with a background in journalism. For more than two decades, she has been engaged in the study of technological and industrial development, and she works in both the IMP and STS research traditions.