Productive Process

This page is to discuss what the meta-category Productive Process and its subcategories mean.

Leading Technologies

Lead Technologies and Transportion: following the concept of Freeman and Soete and Carlota Perez, there is always a lead technology, or usually a pairing of lead technologies, which occur together with specific innovations in the transport system.

Organisational Forms

An assembly line can be an organisational form not just a technology. Other examples would be the networked firm or outsourcing or Just-In-Time production.

Market Structures and Distribution

How a distribution system creates a viable market for a product. The realisation of value in Marxist terms.

Financing

How corporations raise money in order to grow and to survive the low points in the business cycle. How to, in business terms, sustain a cash flow that allows to survive and grow.