Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Management and technological discontinuities; Mobilisation of managerial actors for discontinuous change; The research process; Overview of the technological discontinuity in focus; The actor perspective to the discontinuity: how did management become mobilised?; Building a contextual explanatory framework for technological discontinuities; Further challenges in the study of managing technological discontinuities; Notes; References; Index
Summary
This volume describes how conflicting managerial actors become mobilized to co-operate in situations of discontinuous technological change. These ideas are explored through an in-depth study of the Finnish paper industry
