Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0
Author-Name: Laura Irene Totonelli
Author-Workplace-Name: Instituto de Estudios en Ciencia, Tecnología, Cultura y Desarrollo. Universidad Nacional de Río Negro. Argentina.
Title: Modelo de Ciclo de Vida de Producto Ampliado: Abordaje del CVP desde el Enfoque de Grandes Sistemas Tecnológicos    
Abstract: The  Expanded  Life  Cycle  Product  (Expanded  LCP)  model  is  a  proposal  developed  from  the  confluence  of  two  pre-existing  visions:  on  the  one  hand,  the  conception  of  large  technological  systems,  developed  by  Thomas  Hughes  in  1987  and,  on  the  other  hand,  the  life  cycle  product  model  (LCP).  The  Expanded  LCP  model  aims  to  promote  the  understanding of the phases that follow from the invention process of a basic principle, the generation of the innovative product, its introduction to the market, its maturity and its decline. Each phase proposes challenges from a technological and business point of view and portrays the arrival of certain actors that make up a complex and varied social network.The  essay  begins  by  analysing  the  construction  of  large  technological  systems,  a  perspective  typical  of  social  technology  studies,  which  concentrates  its  attention  on  the  characterisation of the phases that large technological systems go through, understood as sociotechnical constructs. The following is a tour of the main features of the product life cycle model, a prescriptive model developed in the late 1960s and used for evaluating the product portfolio. Finding points of contact between both visions, the Extended LCP model proposes an analysis tool that integrates the two representations. This perspective will favour the understanding of the trajectory from research laboratories to market insertion, the visibility of the possible tensions as a result of the convergence of multiple actors with divergent positions and interests, and the appreciation of the focus on the decision making in the context of each phase or stage. The proposal may originate subsequent specific studies and research, linked to identifying particular trajectories at the product level, technical system or social group, to the generation of specific learning processes at the organisational level. 
Classification-JEL: L1
Keywords: social technology studies; research-to-market trajectory.
Journal: Ciencias Administrativas
Pages: 41-52
Issue: 18
Number: 5
Year: 2021
Month: July-December
DOI: 10.24215/23143738e084
File-URL: https://revistas.unlp.edu.ar/CADM/article/view/9368
File-Format: Application/pdf
Handle: RePEc:lap:recadm:145