Social Interaction and Organisational Change:Aston Perspectives on Innovation Networks

Edited by Oswald Jones, Steve Conway and Fred Steward

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Abstract: 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”.

Date: 2001
ISBN: 9781860942037
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 Introduction: Social Interaction and Organisational Change , pp 1-40

Oswald Jones, Steve Conway and Fred Steward

Ch 2 Micropolitics and Network Mapping: Innovation Management in a Mature Firm , pp 41-79

Oswald Jones and Martin Beckinsale

Ch 3 Employing Social Network Mapping to Reveal Tensions Between Informal and Formal Organisation , pp 81-123

Steve Conway

Ch 4 An Economic Perspective On Innovation Networks , pp 125-163

David Parker and Kirit Vaidya

Ch 5 Patterns of Networking in the Innovation Process: A Comparative Study of the UK, Germany and Ireland , pp 165-191

James H. Love

Ch 6 Shaping Technological Trajectories Through Innovation Networks and Risk Networks: Investigating the Food Sector , pp 193-215

Fred Steward

Ch 7 Techno-Economic Networks: Technological Transfer via the Teaching Company Scheme , pp 217-249

Tim Edwards

Ch 8 Organisations, Networks, and Learning: A Sociological View , pp 251-286

Reiner Grundmann

Ch 9 The Innovative Capacity of Voluntary and Non-Profit Organisations: Networks and the External Environment , pp 287-320

Stephen P. Osborne

Ch 10 Innovation Through Postmodern Networks: The Case of Ecoprotestors , pp 321-347

David Crowther and Stuart Cooper

Ch 11 Realising the Potential of the Network Perspective in Researching Social Interaction and Innovation , pp 349-366

Steve Conway, Oswald Jones and Fred Steward

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