3 Innovation Supply: The Marketing and Imitation Models

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Part I. Introduction
4. 1 The Agenda 3
5. Part II. Evolvement of Innovations: Shape and Uses
6. 2 State of Theory 31
7. 3 Innovation Supply: The Marketing and Imitation Models 57
8. 4 Technology as Process: Trajectories and Life Cycles 89
9. 5 The Corporate User: Innovation-Design Capacity 123
10. Part IIΙ. Anglo-American Patterns of Organizing
11. 6 Transatlantic Evolvement I: Americans and the Absorption Gap 161
12. 7 Economy, Structuration and Region: A Basic Framework 193
13. 8 British Systems of Organizing: Contexts and Directions into the First Divide 233
14. 9 American Systems of Organizing: The Early Foundations 253
15. 10 The American Market: A Key Base from 1870 to the 1960s 269
16. 11 British Systems of Organizing: A Case of Incomplete Modernization? 297
17. 12 Transatlantic Evolvement II: Britain and the Appropriation Gap 325
18. Part IV. Implications
19. 13 Japan and the Pacific Rim: The New Competition 353
20. 14 Summary and Implications 371
21. References 383
22. 16 Author Index 401
23. 17 Subject Index 403