| Social Interaction and Organisational Change, Aston Perspectives on Innovation Networks Contributor(s): Conway, Steve (Editor), Jones, Oswald (Editor), Steward, Fred (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1860942032 ISBN-13: 9781860942037 Publisher: Imperial College Press OUR PRICE: $133.95 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: April 2001 Annotation: This book provides a detailed, multi-disciplinary analysis of innovation networks in a variety of organisational 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 organisational settings: the public sector, public-private collaboration, national policy level, inter-organisational 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 mobilised 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". |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Business & Economics | Industrial Management - Business & Economics | Negotiating - Medical |
| Dewey: 302.35 |
| LCCN: 2001016827 |
| Series: Technology Management |
| Physical Information: 0.97" H x 6.02" W x 8.68" (1.41 lbs) 392 pages |