{"product_id":"the-challenge-of-remaining-innovative-insights-from-twentieth-century-american-business-hardback-9780804758925","title":"The Challenge of Remaining Innovative; Insights from Twentieth-Century American Business (Hardback) 9780804758925","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Challenge of Remaining Innovative\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eInsights from Twentieth-Century American Business\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eSally H. Clarke (Edited by), Naomi R. Lamoreaux (Edited by), Steven W. Usselman (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780804758925\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 10 March 2009\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e368 pages, 14 tables, 2 figures\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.635 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"These essays collectively allow the reader to walk a mile in the shoes of corporate managers faced with the difficult task of generating and sustaining innovation. As the authors vividly demonstrate, managers simultaneously built in-house R\u0026amp;D labs, forged external relationships, and monitored regulatory developments in order to 'reduce the uncertainty inherent in innovation and transform it into a manageable risk.\"—Eric S. Hintz, \u003ci\u003eTechnology \u0026amp; Culture\u003c\/i\u003e \"This collection of excellent studies offers a range of insights on contribution factors...The general introduction and those to each part by the editors Clark, Lamoreaux, and Usselman provide informative context and cohesiveness to this very worthwhile volume.\"—\u003ci\u003eCHOICE\u003c\/i\u003e \"Written for economists and business executives, these articles focus on research, design and marketing concepts that must be managed by companies, networks of companies, intermediates in private industries and government institutions. Case studies on innovation in companies such as IBM, Bell Labs and Honda are also presented.\"\u003ci\u003eBook News\u003c\/i\u003e \"\u003ci\u003eThe Challenge of Remaining Innovative\u003c\/i\u003e is full of excellent papers by world-class scholars. This book makes a major contribution to thinking about innovation, among business and economic historians, and among contemporary scholars of innovation and economics.\"—JoAnne Yates, Author of \u003ci\u003eControl through Communication: The Rise of System in American Management\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eStructuring the Information Age: Life Insurance and Information Technology in the 20th Century\u003c\/i\u003e \"\u003ci\u003eThe Challenge of Remaining Innovative\u003c\/i\u003e charts the rise of research laboratory as the engine of innovation in the 20th century. Clarke, Lamoreaux, and Usselman provide new insight into this game changing institutional innovation, and their work challenges all of us to imagine the new ways of organizing and commercializing innovation that will power economic development in the 21st century.\" —Richard Florida, Author of \u003ci\u003eThe Rise of the Creative Class\u003c\/i\u003e and Director of the Martin Prosperity Institute at the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management \"In \u003ci\u003eThe Challenge of Remaining Innovative\u003c\/i\u003e, a stellar group of authors asks anew the Schumpeterian questions of innovation, the corporation, and the state. The result is a sophisticated and nuanced volume that will find itself at the center of future scholarship in this area.\" —Richard N. Langlois, Professor of Economics, The University of Connecticut\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Challenge of Remaining Innovative\u003c\/i\u003e explores innovation as a complex phenomenon that may be organizational as well as technological, that operates both within firms and across the broader economy, and that involves matters not only of research and development, but also of marketing, design, and government relations. The contributors explore two main themes: the challenge of remaining innovative and the necessity of managing institutional boundaries in doing so.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe collection is organized into four parts, which move outward from individual firms; to networks or clusters of firms; to consultants and other intermediaries in the private economy who operate outside of the firms themselves; and finally to government institutions and politics. This scheme delineates a variety of ways in which entrepreneurship has persisted across the 20th century—and accentuates how ongoing organizational re-arrangement has contributed mightily to its sustained vitality.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Stanford Business Books","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52548850843928,"sku":"9780804758925","price":37.96,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-challenge-of-remaining-innovative-insights-from-twentieth-century-american-business-hardback-9780804758925","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}