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Enterprise and Society Advance Access originally published online on July 10, 2006
Enterprise and Society 2006 7(3):477-484; doi:10.1093/es/khl008
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© The Author 2006. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Business History Conference. All rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org.

Comment: Mediating Innovation: Reflections on the Complex Relationships of User and Supplier

Steven W. Usselman

STEVEN W. USSELMAN is associate professor in the School of History, Technology, and Society at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Contact information: School of History, Technology, and Society, Georgia Institute of Technology, 685 Cherry Street, Atlanta, GA 30332-0345, USA. E-mail: steve.usselman@hts.gatech.edu.

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Let me begin by thanking JoAnne Yates for raising this topic, for framing it so effectively, and for pointing the way to an inclusive approach that promises to open productive links across several disciplines. In every respect, the paper has ‘JoAnne Yates’ written all over it—and that is high praise, indeed.

What might not be quite so apparent to those of you who have merely heard her remarks today are two other characteristic qualities of JoAnne. One is unusual diligence; the other, even rarer among scholars, is a capacity for genuine growth in thought about a chosen subject.

I have had the pleasure of observing JoAnne’s thinking about today’s topic as it has evolved from her pioneering early essays on computer adoption through her fine recent book (which I read in manuscript) and on to the paper presented here. This latest iteration began as a presidential address to the Business . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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