Abstract

PADILLA HERNANDEZ, Salvador  and  MARTIN CARBAJAL, María De La Luz. New business theories, technological learning and the supplier-user relationship. Inv. Econ [online]. 1999, vol.59, n.228, pp.143-178. ISSN 0185-1667.

The aim of this paper is to examine the role of information and knowledge in new business theories, starting with the assumption that known forms of inter-business connections such as the supplier-user relationship, promote technological innovation and learning. To date, the inter-relationship between these elements has not been studied from this angle. Toe paper also aims to answer questions such as: What are the causes that explain the establishment of mercantile and technological links, between economic agents such as suppliers and buyers? In order to address such questions, the authors tum to the best known approaches in economic business theory. These approaches, coming from whatever theoretical affiliation, have a common starting-point: that business responds to information problems, and is a source of knowledge.

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