1st Edition

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

Edited By Håkan Håkansson, Alexandra Waluszewski Copyright 2007
182 Pages 22 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

192 Pages 22 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

192 Pages 22 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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’. Structuring their arguments around four case studies of innovation within four entirely different contexts, Håkansson and Waluszewski invite the business-minded reader to consider the costs of adopting new... Read more

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

Biography

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.