Innovating in a Learning Community: Emergence of an Open Information Infrastructure in China's Pharmaceutical Distribution Industry

by Xunhua Guo, Tiantian Zheng, Bin Xie, et al.

How do firms jointly develop open information infrastructures? To answer this question, this book draws on the results of a longitudinal research project covering the development of the pharmaceutical distribution industry in China from 2004 to 2012, focusing on the emergence and subsequent evolution of industry-wide information infrastructures. How do firms delimit areas of proprietary innovation in open innovation projects? How do firms coordinate,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319050974
• ISBN13: 9783319050973
• Release Date: March 2014
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 67 Pages
• Weight: 0.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.1" x 9.2"