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Book SynopsisBrings together a range of sociologists and economists to study the role of demand and consumption in the innovative process -- .
Table of Contents1. Innovation by demand? An introduction
2. Social mechanisms generating demand: a review and manifesto - Alan Warde
3. There’s more to the economics of consumption than (almost) unconstrained utility maximisation - G. M. Peter Swann
4. Variety, growth and demand - Pier Paolo Saviotti
5. Preferences and novelty – a multidisciplinary perspective - Wilhelm Ruprecht
6. Social routines and the consumption of food - Mark Tomlinson & Andrew McMeekin
7. Social categorization and group identification: How African-Americans shape their collective identity through consumption - Virág Molnár & Michéle Lamont
8. Hyperembedded demand and uneven innovation: female labour in a male-dominated service industry - Bonnie H. Erickson
9. Greening organisations: Purchasing, consumption and innovation - Ken Green, Barbara Morton & Steve New
10. Information and communication technologies and the role of consumers in innovation - Leslie Haddon
11. The incorporation of user needs in telecom product design - Vivien Walsh, Carole Cohen & Albert Richards
12. Markets, supermarkets and the macro-social shaping of demand. An instituted economic process approach - Mark Harvey
