Managing technological development
Subtitle: IKEA, the environment and technology
By: Håkan Håkansson and Alexandra Waluszewski
Contributors: Waluszewski, Alexandra
Series: Routledge advances in management and business studies -- 25; Routledge advances in management and business studies -- 25.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2002
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 274
ISBN-13: 9780203217535
Subjects: TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING; Management; Manufacturing industries; Green products; Sustainable development; Environmental aspects; Automation; Case studies; Technological innovations
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-266) and index.

Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: 1. How to cope with development in a developing world; title: 2. Interaction and resource development; title: 3. Managing resources merged into 'basic' technologies : the utilisation and development of a facility and its products; title: 4. Managing a greening demand : changes in the image of a technology; title: 5. Initiating change : the development of a 'lead-user'; title: 6. Managing change through interaction : the advantage of being small; title: 7. Managing change through interaction : taking advantage of being big; title: 8. Living with change : utilising possibilities in path-dependence; title: 9. Living with change : handling increased variety through 'wait and see'; title: 10. Living with change : moving resources characterised by heaviness and variety; title: 11. Empirical experiences concerning interfaces between resources; title: 12. Interacting resources creating friction.