Sectoral innovation through competing logics: The case of antidepressants in traditional Chinese medicine

Taieb Hafsi and Hao Hu

Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 2016, vol. 107, issue C, 80-89

Abstract: This paper studies the sectoral innovation of antidepressants in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) within the framework of logic competition between TCM and Western Medicine (WM). We find that with the entry of WM antidepressants the whole sector of TCM antidepressant is restructured. We argue that the coexistence of plural logics can stimulate sectoral innovation by injecting a new logic into each component of the innovation system. Existing sectoral actors innovate by referring to the competing logic to reinterpret their own logic and practice. In so doing they reshape sectoral practices and competitiveness.

Keywords: Sectoral system of innovation; Institutional logic; Traditional Chinese medicine; Western medicine; Antidepressant (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (3)

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0040162516300166
Full text for ScienceDirect subscribers only

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:tefoso:v:107:y:2016:i:c:p:80-89

DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2016.03.027

Access Statistics for this article

Technological Forecasting and Social Change is currently edited by Fred Phillips

More articles in Technological Forecasting and Social Change from Elsevier
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Catherine Liu ().