Social Innovations, Institutional Change, and Economic Performance: Making Sense of Structural Adjustment Processes in Industrial Sectors, Regions, and Societies

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Edward Elgar Publishing, 2007 M01 1 - 352 pages
This book examines the nature of social innovation processes which determine the economic and social performance of nations, regions, industrial sectors and organizations.

 

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Historical transformation challenges established structures
1
PART I Theoretical empirical and policy perspectives to structural change
9
2 Social innovation structural adjustment and economic performance
11
Structural and power perspectives
52
4 Social innovation or hegemonic change? Rapid paradigm change in Finland in the 1980s and 1990s
80
How to facilitate the structural adjustment and renewal of advanced societies?
95
PART II Additional perspectives to structural adjustment in sectors regions and nation states
121
6 Structural adjustments and conflicting recipes in the US auto industry
123
7 From path dependency to path creation? BadenWürttemberg and the future of the German model
159
8 Divergence among mature and rich industrial economies the case of Sweden entering a New and Immediate Economy
214
From the poorest of the rich to Europes shining light?
280
Index
305
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