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Social Interaction and Organizational Change: Aston Perspectives on Innovation Networks

By Oswald Jones , Steve Conway , Fred Steward

Book information

Year
2001
ISBN
1860942032, 9781860942037, 9781848161481
LCC
HD58.7 .S638 2001
Open Library ID
OL3940605M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
16 MB (17003036 bytes)
Edition
1st
Pages
392\391
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

This book provides a detailed, multi-disciplinary analysis of innovation networks in a variety of organizational settings. All the contributors are employed at Aston Business School, which is one of the UK's foremost institutions in terms of both teaching and research. The book illustrates the way in which innovation networks are formed and sustained in a variety of organizational settings: the public sector, public-private collaboration, national policy level, inter-organizational credit links, as well as the more traditional focus on manufacturing firms. The strength of the network approach is that it encourages detailed analyses of the dyadic links which must be mobilized in the innovation process. At the same time, networks provide a framework for exploring the multiple sources and pluralistic patterns of communication typical of innovatory activity. Therefore, in contrast to much of the innovation network research undertaken in recent years, the focus of this book is as much on notions of "network as method" as on "network as phenomenon".

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