The Oxford Handbook of Innovation (Oxford Handbooks) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0199264554 ISBN 13: 9780199264551

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2004

Synopsis

This 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 networks. Section Two provides an account of the wider systematic setting influencing innovation and the role of institutions and organizations in this context. Section Three explores some of the diversity in the working of innovation over time and across different sectors of the economy, and Section Four focuses on the consequences of innovation with respect to economic growth, international competitiveness, and employment.

An introductory overview, concluding remarks, and guide to further reading for each chapter, make this handbook a key introduction and vital reference work for researchers, academics, and advanced students of innovation.

About the Series
Oxford Handbooks in Business & Management bring together the world's leading scholars on the subject to discuss current research and the latest thinking in a range of interrelated topics including Strategy, Organizational Behavior, Public Management, International Business, and many others. Containing completely new essays with extensive referencing to further reading and key ideas, the volumes, in hardback or paperback, serve as both a thorough introduction to a topic and a useful desk reference for scholars and advanced students alike.

About this title

About the Author:

Jan Fagerberg is Professor at the University of Oslo, where he is affiliated with the Centre for Technology, Innovation and Culture (TIK). David C. Mowery is Milton W. Terrill Professor of Business at the Walter A. Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley. His academic awards include the Raymond Vernon Prize from the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, the Economic History Association's Fritz Redlich Prize, the Business History Review's Newcomen Prize, and the Cheit Outstanding Teaching Award. Richard R. Nelson is a Professor at the School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University, New York

Review:

...this handbook provides an important addition to the growing innovation literature. * Organization 12 (6) * the 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... also raises a number of intriguing perspectives of analysis. * Business History *

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0199264554
• ISBN 13: 9780199264551
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 674
• Editor: Fagerberg Jan, Mowery David C., Nelson Richard R.