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Industrial and Corporate Change, Volume 12, Number 6, pp. 1125-1155
© 2003 Oxford University Press

Analysing distributed processes of provision and innovation

Rod Coombs, Mark Harvey and Bruce S. Tether

Bruce Tether, ESRC Centre for Research on Innovation and Competition (CRIC), University of Manchester and UMIST, Harold Hankins Building, Precinct Centre, Manchester M13 9QH, UK. Email: bruce.tether{at}man.ac.uk.

Abstract

The vast majority of products (i.e. goods and services) are provided to the consumer through several co-ordinated and contributing agents acting together. This paper is concerned with improving our understanding of processes of provision and innovation that involve several contributing and co-ordinated agents (firms or organizations). The distributedness of provision and innovation varies in scale and takes a variety of (dynamic) forms (or modes), and their analysis brings to the fore the significance of dependency and asymmetric power relations between classes of economic agent. The approach thereby opens up considerations on ‘distributed innovation’ beyond those addressed by the ‘systems of innovation’ perspectives.


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