Description
Book SynopsisThis handbook looks to provide academics and students with a comprehensive and holistic understanding of the phenomenon of innovation.Innovation spans a number of fields within the social sciences and humanities: Management, Economics, Geography, Sociology, Politics, Psychology, and History. Consequently, the rapidly increasing body of literature on innovation is characterized by a multitude of perspectives based on, or cutting across, existing disciplines and specializations. Scholars of innovation can come from such diverse starting points that much of this literature can be missed, and so constructive dialogues missed. The editors of The Oxford Handbook of Innovation have carefully selected and designed twenty-one contributions from leading academic experts within their particular field, each focusing on a specific aspect of innovation. These have been organized into four main sections, the first of which looks at the creation of innovations, with particular focus on firms and netwo
Trade Reviewthe result of a collective effort of a well-established network of scholars in the field of innovation studies. The outcome is an impressive volume which provides an up-to-date summary of current research on innovation and innovative strategies and behaviours of the enterprises...The book deserves little criticism. Well balanced and articulated... raises a number of intriguing perspectives of analysis. * Business History *
...this handbook provides an important addition to the growing innovation literature. * Organization 12 (6) *
Table of ContentsSECTION I: INNOVATION IN THE MAKING; SECTION II: THE SYSTEMIC NATURE OF INNOVATION; SCHEDULE III: HOW INNOVATION DIFFERS; SECTION IV: INNOVATION AND PERFORMANCE
