Managing technological development : IKEA, the environment and technology
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Bibliographic Information
Managing technological development : IKEA, the environment and technology
(Routledge advances in management and business studies, 25)
Routledge, 2002
Available at 14 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-266) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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. Through a detailed analysis of the case-study, the authors demonstrate the necessity of including social, technological and economical factors when dealing with such issues.
Focusing on the interactive aspects of commercial and technological development, they examine how new solutions are developed and shaped in relation to the different companies and organizations involved. They investigate resources in terms of how they are related and built into other resources through historical and contemporary interaction processes. Their overall emphasis is on dealing with the issue of how different, closely and distantly related companies and organizations are affected when resources are developed.
Table of Contents
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
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