Includes bibliographical references and index.

Innovation by demand?: an introduction / Andrew McMeekin, Ken Green, Mark Tomlinson and Vivien Walsh -- Social mechanisms generating demand: a review and manifesto / Alan Warde -- There's more to the economics of consumption than (almost) unconstrained utility maximisation / G.M. Peter Swann -- Variety, growth and demand / Pier Paolo Saviotti -- Preferences and novelty: a multidisciplinary perspective / Wilhelm Ruprecht -- Social routines and the consumption of food / Mark Tomlinson and Andrew McMeekin -- Social categorisation and group identification: how African-Americans shape their collective identity through consumption / Virág Molnár and Michèle Lamont -- Hyperembedded demand and uneven innovation: female labour in a male-dominated service industry / Bonnie H. Erickson -- Greening organisations: purchasing, consumption and innovation / Ken Green, Barbara Morton and Steve New -- Information communication technologies and the role of consumers in innovation / Leslie Haddon -- The incorporation of user needs in telecom product design / Vivien Walsh, Carole Cohen and Albert Richards -- Markets, supermarkets and the macro-social shaping of demand: an instituted economic process approach / Mark Harvey.

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Sociologists and economists are increasingly interested in understanding the patterns and drivers of technological innovation. This book brings together a range of experts to study the role of demand and consumption in the innovative process, including case studies to illustrate the issues raised.

English.

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