Bookcover of Innovation and Sustainable Learning in Small Low-Tech
Firms
Booktitle:
Innovation and Sustainable Learning in Small Low-Tech
Firms
Structural Dynamics, Power and Governance in
Industrial Networks
VDM Verlag Dr. Müller
(2009-06-04
)
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ISBN-13:
978-3-639-15487-0
ISBN-10:
3639154878
EAN:
9783639154870
Book language:
English
Blurb/Shorttext:
This book is about how small firms in low-tech
sectors survive industrial restructuring. By looking
at the packaging industry in a high wage country such
as Denmark the book investigates the dynamic of the
process of innovation within industrial networks.
Contrary to the Schumpeterian approach to innovation
as a source of creative destruction, innovation in
these networks leads to sustainable construction of
advantages without jeopardizing the existence of
other firms. Sustainable learning is crucial to
innovation and firms’ success, but only if the two
conditions of access and willingness to share
knowledge are respected. In order to define the
dynamic of the learning processes and the sources of
innovation and knowledge, the book introduces a
‘structural dynamic approach’ based on the analysis
of the interrelations between power structures,
learning processes and markets dynamics.