Beyond Innovation - Technology, Institution and Change As Categories for Social Analysis

Informationen zum Autor Thomas Kaiserfeld is Professor of History of Ideas and Sciences at Lund University, Sweden. He has been awarded the Robinson Prize by the Society for the History of Technology and the Rausing Prize by Lund University. Klappentext Beyond Innovation counter weighs the present innovation monomania by broadening our thinking about technological and institutional change. It is done by a multidisciplinary review of the most common ideas about the dynamics between technology and institutions. Zusammenfassung Beyond Innovation counter weighs the present innovation monomania by broadening our thinking about technological and institutional change. It is done by a multidisciplinary review of the most common ideas about the dynamics between technology and institutions. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Innovation Monomania 2. Technology, institution and change 3. Market institutions 4. Evolutionary economics 5. Performativity 6. Knowledge 7. Agency 8. Clusters, systems and blocks 9. Resistance to change 10. Commons 11. Technological determinism 12. Modernity and its critics 13. Postmodernity 14. Hybridity and technology transfer 15. Conclusions

List of contents

1. Innovation Monomania
2. Technology, institution and change
3. Market institutions
4. Evolutionary economics
5. Performativity
6. Knowledge
7. Agency
8. Clusters, systems and blocks
9. Resistance to change
10. Commons
11. Technological determinism
12. Modernity and its critics
13. Postmodernity
14. Hybridity and technology transfer
15. Conclusions

Product details

• Authors: Thomas Kaiserfeld
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2015
• EAN: 9781137547101
• ISBN: 978-1-137-54710-1
• No. of pages: 172
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; Management, B, Planning, Leadership, Organization, Business Strategy/Leadership, Public Relations, Behavioral Economics, Corporate Communication, Behavioural economics, Organizational theory & behaviour, Innovation/Technology Management, business strategy, Corporate Communication/Public Relations, Experimental Economics, Management science, Industrial Management, Development Economics, Development economics & emerging economies, Business Strategy and Leadership, Behavioral/Experimental Economics, Palgrave Business & Management Collection, Innovation and Technology Management