Frontmatter -- Contents -- Part I. Introduction -- 1 The Agenda -- Part II. Evolvement of Innovations: Shape and Uses -- 2 State of Theory -- 3 Innovation Supply: The Marketing and Imitation Models -- 4 Technology as Process: Trajectories and Life Cycles -- 5 The Corporate User: Innovation-Design Capacity -- Part II?. Anglo-American Patterns of Organizing -- 6 Transatlantic Evolvement I: Americans and the Absorption Gap -- 7 Economy, Structuration and Region: A Basic Framework -- 8 British Systems of Organizing: Contexts and Directions into the First Divide -- 9 American Systems of Organizing: The Early Foundations -- 10 The American Market: A Key Base from 1870 to the 1960s -- 11 British Systems of Organizing: A Case of Incomplete Modernization? -- 12 Transatlantic Evolvement II: Britain and the Appropriation Gap -- Part IV. Implications -- 13 Japan and the Pacific Rim: The New Competition -- 14 Summary and Implications -- References -- 16 Author Index -- 17 Subject Index