Community, Economic Creativity, and Organization, Hardcover by Amin, Ash (EDT...

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Publication Year: 2008 Number of Pages: 320 Pages Publication Name: Community, Economic Creativity, and Organization ISBN: 9780199545490 Item Height: 0.9 in gtin13: 9780199545490 Book Title: Community, Economic Creativity, and Organization Subject Area: Social Science, Business & Economics Item Width: 6.1 in Language: English Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated Format: Hardcover Item Weight: 22.8 Oz Type: Textbook Author: Joanne Roberts Item Length: 9.2 in Subject: Sociology / General, Organizational Development

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Community, Economic Creativity, and Organization, Hardcover by Amin, Ash (EDT); Roberts, Joanne (EDT), ISBN 0199545499, ISBN-13 9780199545490, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US How knowledge is created, and how innovation in products and practices occurs, have been long-standing concerns of socio-economists. This book argues that 'communities of practice', communities and networks of joint enterprise, are the prime site where knowledge and innovation are generated. It sees the everyday interaction that takes place in different working and professional contexts as producing this creativity, learning and knowing through action. In this book, leading international scholars examine the concept and our understanding of the relationship between situated practice and economic creativity. Chapters examine the development of the concept, the link between situated learning and knowing, and the economy in general, what challenges these links raise for organization and knowledge management to encourage knowledge exploitation and breakthrough innovation, and, more generally, the socio-spatial aspects of creativity in its different knowledge settings. Exploring the frontiers of current understanding of innovation and learning, this book is for all those interested in the economic sociology of knowledge creation.