Community, Economic Creativity, and Organization

by Ash Amin

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199545499
• ISBN13: 9780199545490
• Release Date: November 2008
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 324 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.2"