Learning and Innovation in Organizations and Economies

ISBN-13: 9780199241002 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 360 str.

Bart Nooteboom

Opis

This book explores a range of theories used to explain the phenomenon of innovation and learning in individual thought, organizations, industries, and economies. The author draws on insights and perspectives from management and organization studies, economics, and cognitive science, bringing these together in a unifying framework for an analysis of innovation systems and the management of learning.

Recenzje

Review from previous edition Bart Nooteboom has written a remarkable and valuable book. In it he draws from and weaves together conceptions and empirical research findings from a wide range of fields. The scholarship is a model of what interdisciplinary work should be. Nooteboom is concerned with knowledge, learning, and innovation, at a number of different levels - the individual, the firm, and society as a whole - and his work sheds a penetrating light on all of these. A reader interested in any or all of these subjects is bound to come away from this book with important new insights and understandings.

O autorze

Bart Nooteboom studied mathematics and econometrics. He worked in industry, was appointed Professor of Industrial Organization at Groningen University in 1987, and is now Professor of Organization at Erasmus University, Rotterdam. He has published widely in the areas of entrepreneurship and small business; industry and technology policy; innovation and diffusion; transaction costs; trust; inter-firm relations; organizational learning; and philosophy of economics and management.