| Description |
viii, 349 pages : illustrations ; 24cm |
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International business and management series, 1876-066X ; v. 25 |
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International business and management series ; v. 25
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| Contents |
Contents note continued: 8.Value Creation Through Product Modularity: The User's Perspective / Roberta Bocconcelli / Annalisa Tunisini -- 9.Exploring Using Interfaces / Frans Prenkert / Sophie Cantillon -- 10.Using Information Technology in an Industrial Network: The Economic Effects of Movex within Edsbyn's Network / Enrico Baraldi -- 11.Narrative Commodity: deCODE Genetics and the Product to Come / Gauti Sigthorsson -- Pt. 3 Individual Aspects of Using -- 12.Practical Use: Enacting the User and That Which is Being Used / Claes-Fredrik Helgesson / Hans Kjellberg -- 13.Aligning User Practices in Innovation: The Case of Heathrow's Terminal 5 Project / Chris Harty / Luis Araujo -- 14.Figuring Technologies, Users, and Designers: Steps towards an Adequate Vocabulary for Design-Use Relation / Sampsa Hyysalo -- 15.The Delicate Balancing Act of Trying to Understand User Perspectives on Technology-Based Services / Peter R. Magnusson |
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Machine generated contents note: 1.Introduction: Use of Science and Technology in Business / Alexandra Waluszewski / Hakan Hakansson -- Pt. 1 Systemic Aspects of Using -- 2.How Commercial Technology Users Shaped the Information Age: Historical Perspective on Life Insurance Adoption and Use of Computer Technology / JoAnne Yates -- 3.Use in the Context of Outsourcing: The View from Downstream / Stephen Flowers -- 4.Risky Uses for Safe Technology: Towards a Legal Reconstruction of the User Perspective / Olaf Dilling -- 5.Science Machines Making Futures / Richard Langlais / Sharon Rider -- Pt. 2 Organizational Aspects of Using -- 6.How a New Resource Emerged in a Network Setting and How the Emergence of New Resource Bound a Network Together / John Finch / Debbie Harrison -- 7.Modelling Uncertainty in Customer/Supplier Cooperation for Technology-Based Radical Innovation / Anne Vercauteren -- |
| Summary |
This book comprises a variety of examples of the use of science and technology in business, ranging from early computer use in the U.S. insurance industry to the present use of information technology in the Swedish furniture industry; from the classic UK fish and chip shop's use of white fish to Heathrow's Terminal 5-project; from new fishing net fibers to the cooling of chocolate at Cadbury's; from the development of new mobile wireless services to the creation of a genetic database on Iceland. The book shows the multifaceted and interactive character of the relationship between science and technology on the one hand, and business and innovation on the other. It explores this non-linear relationship through a selection of case studies and discusses its implications for science as well as for business. The economy of the use of sciences and technology, as well as the science and technology of economy, is given equal focus |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Business enterprises -- Technological innovations.
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Individual aspects of using
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Organizational aspects of using
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Systematic aspects of using
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Technological innovations -- Management.
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| Author |
Håkansson, Håkan, 1947-
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| ISBN |
1848554745 |
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9781848554740 |
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