Knowledge and Innovation in Business and Industry - The Importance of Using Others

Informationen zum Autor Håkan Håkansson is Professor in International Management, Norwegian School of Management. Alexandra Waluszewski is Director of the Science & Technology Studies Center (STS) at Uppsala University, as well as a senior lecturer in the Department of Business Studies. Klappentext Dealing with the notion of knowledge and innovation in the business industry! this volume provides readers with a holistic approach to the subject of 'knowledge'. It invites the business-minded reader to consider the costs of adopting new knowledge and innovation within a business setting. Zusammenfassung Provocative and reflective, this volume on the notion of knowledge and innovation in the business industry provides readers with a holistic approach to the subject of ‘knowledge’. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Economic Use of Knowledge 2. Resources in Use: The Embedded Electricity 3. Introducing 'Old' Knowledge in an Established User Context: Or How to Use Wood in the Construction Industry 4. Conscious Use of Others’ Interface Knowledge: Or How IKEA Can Keep the Price of the Lack Table Constant over Decades 5. Handling Resource Interfaces in a Planned Economy or How Tipografiya Solves Interaction Issues Without Direct Interaction 6. Use of Knowledge in the Model World: Lessons to Learn from Economic Literature 7. The Only Means to Create Use

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• Authors: Hakan Waluszewski Hakansson
• Assisted by: Håkan Håkansson (Editor), Alexandra Waluszewski (Editor), Waluszewski Alexandra (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.05.2007
• EAN: 9780415425292
• ISBN: 978-0-415-42529-2
• No. of pages: 192
• Series: Routledge Studies in Innovation, Organizations and Technology
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology; Sociology, Business & Economics / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Economy, Society & culture: general, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Management, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / Business Development, Political Economy, Research & development management, Society and culture: general, Research and development management