Social Interaction And Organisational Change Aston Perspectives On Innovation Networks

Author : Oswald Jones,Steve Conway,Fred Steward
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1848161484

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Social Interaction and Organisational Change by Oswald Jones,Steve Conway,Fred Steward Pdf

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 OC network as methodOCO as on OC network as phenomenonOCO. Contents: Introduction: Social Interaction and Organisational Change; Micropolitics and Network Mapping: Innovation Management in a Mature Firm; Employing Social Network Mapping to Reveal Tensions Between Informal and Formal Organisation; Organisation; An Economic Perspective on Innovation Networks; Patterns of Networking in the Innovation Process: A Comparative Study of the UK, Germany and Ireland; Shaping Technological Trajectories Through Innovation Networks and Risk Networks: Investigating the Food Sector; Techno-Economic Networks: Technological Transfer via the Teaching Company Scheme; Organisations, Networks, and Learning: A Sociological View; The Innovative Capacity of Voluntary and Non-Profit Organisations: Networks and the External Environment; Innovation Through Postmodern Networks: The Case of Ecoprotestors; Realising the Potential of the Network Perspective in Researching Social Interaction and Innovation. Readership: Academics in innovation studies, policy studies and organisational behaviour/theory."

Author : Oswald Jones,Steve H. Conway,Fred Steward
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Business networks
ISBN : 1854493396

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Social Interaction & Organisational Change by Oswald Jones,Steve H. Conway,Fred Steward Pdf

Author : Jenny M. Lewis,Lykke Margot Ricard,Erik Hans Klijn,Tamyko Ysa Figueras
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317375456

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Innovation in City Governments by Jenny M. Lewis,Lykke Margot Ricard,Erik Hans Klijn,Tamyko Ysa Figueras Pdf

Innovation has become an important focus for governments around the world over the last decade, with greater pressure on governments to do more with less, and expanding community expectations. Some are now calling this ‘social innovation’ – innovation that is related to creating new services that have value for stakeholders (such as citizens) in terms of the social and political outcomes they produce. Innovation in City Governments: Structures, Networks, and Leadership establishes an analytical framework of innovation capacity based on three dimensions: Structure - national governance and traditions, the local socioeconomic context, and the municipal structure Networks – interpersonal connections inside and outside the organization Leadership – the qualities and capabilities of senior individuals within the organization. Each of these are analysed using data from a comparative EU research project in Copenhagen, Barcelona and Rotterdam. The book provides major new insights on how structures, networks and leadership in city governments shape the social innovation capacity of cities. It provides ground-breaking analyses of how governance structures and local socio-economic challenges, are related to the innovations introduced by these cities. The volume maps and analyses the social networks of the three cities and examines boundary spanning within and outside of the cities. It also examines what leadership qualities are important for innovation. Innovation in City Governments: Structures, Networks, and Leadership combines an original analytical approach with comparative empirical work, to generate a novel perspective on the social innovation capacity of cities and is critical reading for academics, students and policy makers alike in the fields of Public Management, Public Administration, Local Government, Policy, Innovation and Leadership.

Author : Jane Nolan,Chris Rowley,Malcolm Warner
Publisher : Chandos Publishing
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2016-09-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780081006559

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Business Networks in East Asian Capitalisms by Jane Nolan,Chris Rowley,Malcolm Warner Pdf

Business Networks in East Asian Capitalisms: Enduring Trends, Emerging Patterns builds on the foundational studies conducted in the 1990s by gathering contemporary empirical and theoretical chapters which explore these themes in a comparative perspective. The book includes contributions from authors working on the relationship between personal and business networks in countries including China, Singapore, Malaysia, Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, and Thailand. Authors emphasize enduring trends in social and business networks and/or track new emerging patterns, both within East Asian nations or between East Asia and other regions such as Europe, Africa, and the Americas. Provides contemporary, up-to-date empirical material and theoretical interpretation, charting the influence of more recent globalizing trends and institutional change in the region Includes studies of networks within PRC, between PRC and other regions, and in Chinese communities Offers studies centered on Korean, Japanese, and South East Asian Networks Includes a geographical scope that will be broader than other books, aiming to include studies of newly developing economies in South East Asia that share a common cultural heritage (e.g Vietnam)

Author : Stephen Flowers,Flis Henwood
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2010-10-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781908977779

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Perspectives on User Innovation by Stephen Flowers,Flis Henwood Pdf

There has been a dramatic shift towards more open, democratised, forms of innovation that are driven by networks of individual users. Users are now visibly active within all stages of the innovation process and across many types of industrial output, and their influence is spreading across many sectors. They are actively engaged with firms in the co-creation of products and services, and firms can no longer control the innovation agenda. This developing phenomenon has large implications for our understanding of the management of innovation. Drawing on practice-based insights, together with theoretical approaches developed in Innovation Studies and Science and Technology Studies, this book brings together a collection of recent work that examines key aspects of this emerging new model of innovation, while highlighting exciting new ideas in this area. With content contributed by academics, practitioners and researchers, this book is a good reference source for academics and general public interested in the management and policy implications of user innovation. Contents:Introduction: Perspectives on User Innovation (S Flowers & F Henwood)Exploring the Role(s) of Users in Innovation:The Historical Construction of User Innovation (G Voss)The Dynamics of User Innovation: Drivers and Impediments of Innovation Activities (C Raasch et al.)Intermediaries, Users and Social Learning in Technological Innovation (J Stewart & S Hyysalo)Drawing Users into the Innovation Process:User-Centric Innovations in New Product Development — Systematic Identification of Lead Users Harnessing Interactive and Collaborative On-Line Tools (V Bilgram et al.)Proactive Involvement of Consumers in Innovation: Selecting Appropriate Techniques (K L Janssen & B Dankbaar)User-Producer Interactions in Emerging Pharmaceutical and Food Innovations (E H M Moors et al.)New Directions in User Innovation Research and Policy:Outlaw Community Innovations (C Schulz & S Wagner)User Innovation: The Developing Policy Research Agenda (S Flowers)The Freedom-Fighters: How Incumbent Corporations are Attempting to Control User-Innovation (V Braun & C Herstatt) Readership: Students, academics and researchers studying and teaching innovation management, managers dealing with innovation processes and new product development in companies. Keywords:User-Driven;Innovation;New Product Development;STS;Social Learning;Collaborative Online ToolsKey Features:Presents the latest research findings into the ways in which users participate in innovationOffers new insights concerning the practice, management and policy implications of user innovationCombines practice-based insights and theoretical approaches

Author : Cristiano Antonelli,Albert N. Link
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2020-05-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780429665998

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Assessing Technology and Innovation Policies by Cristiano Antonelli,Albert N. Link Pdf

This volume brings together eminent international scholars to discuss and analyze regional and national technology and innovation policies from an economic assessment or economic impacts perspective. The analysis covers policies relevant to countries in Europe and Asia, and the United States. Not only might this volume initiate further study of technology and innovation policies, on a country-by-country basis, but also it might open doors for comparative policy analysis. This book was originally published as a special issue of Economics of Innovation and New Technology.

Author : Hamid Etemad
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781845421557

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International Entrepreneurship in Small and Medium Size Enterprises by Hamid Etemad Pdf

The drivers of globalization are removing the barriers that segregated the competitive space of the small and large firms in the past. It is becoming increasingly difficult for independent small firms to thrive in their traditional markets unless they are globally competitive. Managing an enterprise's commercial, industrial and political relations well, regardless of size and location, is the essence of the entrepreneurial challenge in this competitive arena. Small and medium size enterprises (SMEs) often face very different issues than large multinational enterprises do when confronting internationalization. This volume provides an in-depth discussion of these challenges. The contributors to this volume explore the emerging patterns of SME growth and international expansion in response to the evolving competitive environment, dynamics of competitive behavior, entrepreneurial processes and formulation of strategy. They examine the basis and requirements of growth and expansion from three perspectives: the rapidly-changing environment in which business is conducted, entrepreneurial characteristics, and the evolving strategic and competitive response to this changing business environment. Business leaders, scholars and students interested in international business and entrepreneurship will welcome this volume.

Author : Catherine Feely,John Hinks
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2016-10-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317266075

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Historical Networks in the Book Trade by Catherine Feely,John Hinks Pdf

The book trade historically tended to operate in a spirit of co-operation as well as competition. Networks between printers, publishers, booksellers and related trades existed at local, regional, national and international levels and were a vital part of the business of books for several centuries. This collection of essays examines many aspects of the history of book-trade networks, in response to the recent ‘spatial turn’ in history and other disciplines. Contributors come from various backgrounds including history, sociology, business studies and English literature. The essays in Part One introduce the relevance to book-trade history of network theory and techniques, while Part Two is a series of case studies ranging chronologically from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century. Topics include the movement of early medieval manuscript books, the publication of Shakespeare, the distribution of seventeenth-century political pamphlets in Utrecht and Exeter, book-trade networks before 1750 in the English East Midlands, the itinerant book trade in northern France in the late eighteenth century, how an Australian newspaper helped to create the Scottish public sphere, the networks of the Belgian publisher Murquardt, and transatlantic radical book-trade networks in the early twentieth century.

Author : Katherine Maxwell
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 119 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2022-09-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000628869

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Governance Networks for Sustainable Cities by Katherine Maxwell Pdf

This book explores the effectiveness of governance networks on the design and implementation of sustainability strategies. European cities are actively developing sustainability strategies to address the impact of climate change. One recent approach many cities have taken is the creation of ‘governance networks’: groups of public, private and third sector organisations, which collaborate to support urban sustainability efforts. Drawing on two case studies in Glasgow and Copenhagen, this book explores the concept of governance networks in theory and practice, revealing how stakeholder collaboration, leadership and innovation within these networks can help or hinder the process. It also highlights the many benefits of these networks, including increased participation in the decision-making process, increased levels of resources and expertise on sustainability issues, as well as stakeholder buy-in for sustainability policies. This book provides recommendations for improving the efficiency of governance networks and will be of interest to academics and practitioners working in the areas of urban governance and sustainability.

Author : Christoph Kausch
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2007-08-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783790819625

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A Risk-Benefit Perspective on Early Customer Integration by Christoph Kausch Pdf

Customer integration in the early innovation phase, considered the method of choice in theory and practice, has shown unexpected side effects that may even outweigh its recognized advantages. As a result, management needs to be able to assess in advance whether the involvement of customers will add overall value to an innovation project. This book develops a mathematical formula to support this decision.

Author : J. R. Bessant,John Bessant,Joe Tidd
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 605 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2011-05-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780470711446

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Innovation and Entrepreneurship by J. R. Bessant,John Bessant,Joe Tidd Pdf

Developed for courses at both undergraduate and postgraduate level Innovation and Entrepreneurship is an accessible introductory text written primarily for students of business and management studies. The book is also suitable for engineering students studying courses in business and management. Contemporary issues in both innovation and entrepreneurship are used to engage and excite students, and lead them to the relevant theory, models and lessons. The authors have created a new text which includes: Fully integrated contemporary themes in innovation, such as sustainability, social entrepreneurship and creating new ventures. A focus on the role of individual entrepreneurship and organizational innovation, in private and public services. Contemporary cases from areas including new media, computer gaming, internet services, and public and social innovation cases.

Author : John Bessant,Joseph Tidd
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 477 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2007-06-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780470032695

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Innovation and Entrepreneurship by John Bessant,Joseph Tidd Pdf

This is an accessible text on innovation and entrepreneurship aimed specifically at undergraduate students, primarily for those studying business and management studies, but also engineering and science degrees with management courses.

Author : Donald Hislop
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : IND:30000100263288

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Knowledge Management in Organizations by Donald Hislop Pdf

This introductory-level textbook provides a critical review and analysis of the key themes that underpin knowledge management in organizations. The key debates are presented including epistemologies of knowledge, managing and sharing knowledge, and learning and innovation.

Author : Oswald Jones,Fiona Tilley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Business planning
ISBN : IND:30000088061456

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Competitive Advantage in SMEs by Oswald Jones,Fiona Tilley Pdf

Focusing on how small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) can improve their performance and create and sustain long-term competitive advantage, this text draws upon empirical evidence to illustrate how SMEs can become more innovative through the introduction of new products and services.

Author : Rick Aalbers,Wilfred Dolfsma
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2015-06-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317633426

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Innovation Networks by Rick Aalbers,Wilfred Dolfsma Pdf

Organizations are complex social systems that are not easy to understand, yet they must be managed if a company is to succeed. This book explains networks and how managers and organizations can navigate them to produce successful strategic innovation outcomes. Although managers are increasingly aware of the importance of social relations for the inner-workings of the organization, they often lack insights and tools to analyze, influence or even create these networks. This book draws on insights from social network theory; insights sharpened by research in a number of different empirical settings including production, engineering, financial services, consulting, food processing, and R&D/hi-tech organizations and alternates between offering critical real business examples and more rigorous analysis. This concise book is vital reading for students of business and management as well as managers and executives.