Communities of Practice and Vintage Innovation A Strategic Reaction to Technological Change /

• Main Author: Schiavone, Francesco (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Business,
• Subjects: Business.; Marketing.; Management.; Industrial management.; Economic policy.; Economic sociology.; Business and Management.; Innovation/Technology Management.; R & D/Technology Policy.; Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology.

This book focuses on the notion of “vintage innovation” and its application in various old technology-based communities of practice. Some communities of practice resist and react to technological change by adopting new technological products (“vintage products”) that extend the lifetime of their old...

Table of Contents:

• 1 Technological change
• 2 Communities of practice
• 3 Vintage innovation
• 4 Vintage innovation by firms
• 5 Vintage innovation by users .