Faster, Better, Stronger

Olof Hallonsten
Additional contact information
Olof Hallonsten: Lund University

Chapter Chapter 5 in Empty Innovation, 2023, pp 61-79 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Insightful sociological analyses of current society have identified acceleration as its defining feature. A competitiveness ideal, and a constant aspiration to exceed the promise of a better future with the help of technological progress, have led to a broad exploitation of vague but powerful expectations The result is often mere window-dressing, but progress has also become an identity marker for a class of politicians and business leaders who look for roles for themselves to play in the fulfillment of promises, both “moving fast and breaking things” and launching huge and very costly strategic innovation programs. The chapter analyzes these features of contemporary public and economic life and question the validity of the underlying assumptions.

Keywords: Promises; Expectations; The Entrepreneurial State; Market failure; Knowledge problem; Standards (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-031-31479-7_5

Ordering information: This item can be ordered from
http://www.springer.com/9783031314797

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-31479-7_5

Access Statistics for this chapter

More chapters in Springer Books from Springer
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().