Analysing customer-supplier relationships in the process of innovation: An innovation systems approach

Phillips, W. , Lamming, R. and Caldwell, N. (2011) Analysing customer-supplier relationships in the process of innovation: An innovation systems approach. To be published in European Management Journal. ISSN 0263-2373 [Submitted]

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Abstract

Adopting an innovation systems approach, this paper addresses how institutions in supply markets, in the institutional economics sense of informal constraints and formal rules, influence the innovation process between firms. Within an innovation system, institutions may contain the ability not only to support but also to restrain the co-ordination of knowledge and skills in inter-organisational relationships. Drawing on the research findings of an EPSRC IMRC funded project action research project investigating the sharing of information and knowledge for the purpose of innovation in industrial customer-supplier relationships, we consider how existing institutions (such as open-book negotiation) have failed to adapt to the changing nature of product and process technologies and the innovation required to address them.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	innovation systems, customer-supplier relationships, institutions
Faculty/Department:	Faculty of Business and Law > Department of Business Management ~Pre-2012 Faculty Structure > Faculty of Business and Law > Department of Business and Management
ID Code:	14695
Deposited By:	Dr W. Phillips
Deposited On:	26 May 2011 11:57
Last Modified:	22 Nov 2012 15:48