Social Innovations, Institutional Change, and Economic Performance: Making Sense of Structural Adjustment Processes in Industrial Sectors, Regions, and SocietiesEdward 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. |
Contents
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 |
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