Polymath teacher and scholar with a grounding in innovation studies, I currently teach and research social and sustainable enterprise and other emerging alternatives to shareholder-dominated capitalism.
The Third Sector is of increasing economic and political interest but has been relatively ignored... more The Third Sector is of increasing economic and political interest but has been relatively ignored by Critical Management Studies. The Sector includes charities and a range of organisations such as non-governmental, nonprofit, voluntary and community, but also those trading for a surplus but with prominent social commitments, such as housing associations, credit unions, worker or consumer co-operatives and social enterprises. This book presents cutting-edge international research from a variety of critical perspectives. The chapters include case studies from Japan, South Africa, Canada, Denmark, France, Wales and England, as well as a number of theoretically-based explorations of key issues in the analysis of the Third Sector. The chapters have been developed from presentations and lively discussion at the Critical Management Studies Workshop, Montreal, August 2010. "DCMS" is an innovative series applying Critical Management Studies to tightly specified topics. Each chapter is followed by a 1,000 word Commentary from a fellow contributor to the volume, and each volume is the product of a collaborative and developmental workshop.
Knowledge and Innovation in the New Service Economy is an interesting book that provides a good o... more Knowledge and Innovation in the New Service Economy is an interesting book that provides a good overview of recent trends in the service sector. . . . This book is recommended for libraries supporting upper division and graduate programs in international business and e-commerce, or for those who want a thorough overview of the knowledge-based service economy.’
– Steven W. Staninger, Business Information Alert
Knowledge and innovation are key factors contributing to growth and prosperity in the new service economy. This book presents original, empirical and theoretical contributions to address the economic dimensions of knowledge and the organisation of knowledge intensive activity through specialised services. Specific analyses include:
• macro statistics to highlight the contribution of services to economic activity
• firm level survey data to identify and consider client relations
• case studies of four innovation-oriented business services.
Contents
Contents: 1. Introducing the New Service Economy 2. Knowledge and Innovation in the New Service Economy 3. The Contribution of Knowledge-Intensive Services to Manufacturing Industry 4. Competition and Innovation Amongst Knowledge Intensive and Other Service Firms: Evidence from Germany 5. Web Services: Knowledge of the New 6. Ecommerce: Servicing the New Economy 7. Environmental Services: Sustaining Knowledge 8. Computer Services: The Dynamics of a Knowledge-Intensive Sector 9. Knowledge Management Practices and Innovation 10. Services, Knowledge and Intellectual Property 11. The Internationalisation of Knowledge-Intensive Business Service Firms 12. Outsourcing Novelty: The Externalisation of Innovative Activity 13. Services and Systems of Innovation 14. Intellectual Property Rights Shaping Innovation in Services 15. Global Knowledge Systems in a Service Economy 16. Understanding the New Service Economy References Index Contributors: B. Andersen, M. Boden, E. Bolisani, K. Flanagan, C. Hipp, J. Howells, R. Hull, I. Miles, J. Roberts, B.S. Tether, M. Tomlinson, P. Windrum
Aimed at MBA students, postgraduates and advanced level undergraduates, this text questions the n... more Aimed at MBA students, postgraduates and advanced level undergraduates, this text questions the naive, self interested and popularised messages that surround knowledge work and knowledge management. Case studies highlight the politics of new communications technologies which are frequently offered as a means for managing knowledge in the workplace.
Participatory event design opens up opportunities for the sustainable transformation of a communi... more Participatory event design opens up opportunities for the sustainable transformation of a community and can therefore make a valuable contribution to the field of critical event studies. This article discusses the findings from a participatory action research project developed with a community of visual artists in Zimbabwe. The project explored how participatory event design processes could be applied to the cocreation of an art exhibition that would be used as a platform to challenge the oppressive environment Zimbabwean visual artists are working in. The design of special events in the third sector is usually reliant on the voice of the specialist event designer or organizer who is commissioned by the funding or lead agency to develop an event intervention using risk-averse and time-efficient methods. Unfortunately, this can result in in the community of interest having a marginalized role in the proceedings and thus they lose a much-needed connection with the event intervention a...
Review article of Geoffrey M. Hodgson (1999) Economics & Utopia: Why the Learning Economy... more Review article of Geoffrey M. Hodgson (1999) Economics & Utopia: Why the Learning Economy is Not the End of History, London: Routledge. Introduction Debates and discussions of ‘the knowledge economy’ have proliferated in recent years, but without any seriously critical examination. I include among these debates and discussions the variations on much the same theme, such as the knowledge society, the information society, the informational society, ‘informatization’ and now ‘the learning economy’. If these were merely debates and discussions between intellectuals then this would not pose much of an urgent issue, but these debates and discussions are tightly linked to policy prescriptions, management strategies and real changes in the character of work, education and even leisure. To say they are tightly linked is to suspend judgement, for the time being, over the direction of determination, but it is to reject the notion that these debates and discussions are merely reflecting pre-existent material and substantive changes.
This article reports on a conference organized by the Santa Fe Group and Knowledge Based Developm... more This article reports on a conference organized by the Santa Fe Group and Knowledge Based Development Co Ltd, on ‘Complexity and Technology: Organizing for Innovation’, London, 10-11 March 1997.
Participatory event design opens up opportunities for the sustainable transformation of a communi... more Participatory event design opens up opportunities for the sustainable transformation of a community and can therefore make a valuable contribution to the field of critical event studies. This article discusses the findings from a participatory action research project developed with a community of visual artists in Zimbabwe. The project explored how participatory event design processes could be applied to the cocreation of an art exhibition that would be used as a platform to challenge the oppressive environment Zimbabwean visual artists are working in. The design of special events in the third sector is usually reliant on the voice of the specialist event designer or organizer who is commissioned by the funding or lead agency to develop an event intervention using risk-averse and time-efficient methods. Unfortunately, this can result in in the community of interest having a marginalized role in the proceedings and thus they lose a much-needed connection with the event intervention and are not committed to sustaining the desired change. We argue that there is an opportunity for events professionals to increase their skills and develop emancipatory approaches that will decolonize established event design processes and contribute to the sustainable transformation of marginalized communities.
This paper compares the macro- and micro analyses of techno-economic change. Arguing for perspect... more This paper compares the macro- and micro analyses of techno-economic change. Arguing for perspectives which are sensitive to the local flexibility of innovation but which can also provide suggestions for policy and intervention, it describes and reviews the two major contributions: work on Techno-Economic Networks, and on Techno-Economic Paradigms. It is argued that the former has greater depth of analytical sensitivity, whilst the latter is more policy-relevant. Whilst there are approaches, such as Constructive Technology Assessment, which attempt to combine the two perspectives, these are seen as failing to retain sensitivity to the power differentials between key actors such as firms, experts, governing agencies or citizens’ groups. The paper concludes by advocating attention to the ‘meso-level techno-economic’}the networks of institutions and actors at work in: geographically bounded systems of innovation; scientific and technological disciplines; firms, their strategies and linkages; and the nexus between production and consumption.
Review article of Geoffrey M. Hodgson (1999) Economics & Utopia: Why the Learning Economy is Not ... more Review article of Geoffrey M. Hodgson (1999) Economics & Utopia: Why the Learning Economy is Not the End of History, London: Routledge. Introduction Debates and discussions of ‘the knowledge economy’ have proliferated in recent years, but without any seriously critical examination. I include among these debates and discussions the variations on much the same theme, such as the knowledge society, the information society, the informational society, ‘informatization’ and now ‘the learning economy’. If these were merely debates and discussions between intellectuals then this would not pose much of an urgent issue, but these debates and discussions are tightly linked to policy prescriptions, management strategies and real changes in the character of work, education and even leisure. To say they are tightly linked is to suspend judgement, for the time being, over the direction of determination, but it is to reject the notion that these debates and discussions are merely reflecting pre-existent material and substantive changes.
The Third Sector is of increasing economic and political interest but has been relatively ignored... more The Third Sector is of increasing economic and political interest but has been relatively ignored by Critical Management Studies. The Sector includes charities and a range of organisations such as non-governmental, nonprofit, voluntary and community, but also those trading for a surplus but with prominent social commitments, such as housing associations, credit unions, worker or consumer co-operatives and social enterprises. This book presents cutting-edge international research from a variety of critical perspectives. The chapters include case studies from Japan, South Africa, Canada, Denmark, France, Wales and England, as well as a number of theoretically-based explorations of key issues in the analysis of the Third Sector. The chapters have been developed from presentations and lively discussion at the Critical Management Studies Workshop, Montreal, August 2010. "DCMS" is an innovative series applying Critical Management Studies to tightly specified topics. Each chapter is followed by a 1,000 word Commentary from a fellow contributor to the volume, and each volume is the product of a collaborative and developmental workshop.
Knowledge and Innovation in the New Service Economy is an interesting book that provides a good o... more Knowledge and Innovation in the New Service Economy is an interesting book that provides a good overview of recent trends in the service sector. . . . This book is recommended for libraries supporting upper division and graduate programs in international business and e-commerce, or for those who want a thorough overview of the knowledge-based service economy.’
– Steven W. Staninger, Business Information Alert
Knowledge and innovation are key factors contributing to growth and prosperity in the new service economy. This book presents original, empirical and theoretical contributions to address the economic dimensions of knowledge and the organisation of knowledge intensive activity through specialised services. Specific analyses include:
• macro statistics to highlight the contribution of services to economic activity
• firm level survey data to identify and consider client relations
• case studies of four innovation-oriented business services.
Contents
Contents: 1. Introducing the New Service Economy 2. Knowledge and Innovation in the New Service Economy 3. The Contribution of Knowledge-Intensive Services to Manufacturing Industry 4. Competition and Innovation Amongst Knowledge Intensive and Other Service Firms: Evidence from Germany 5. Web Services: Knowledge of the New 6. Ecommerce: Servicing the New Economy 7. Environmental Services: Sustaining Knowledge 8. Computer Services: The Dynamics of a Knowledge-Intensive Sector 9. Knowledge Management Practices and Innovation 10. Services, Knowledge and Intellectual Property 11. The Internationalisation of Knowledge-Intensive Business Service Firms 12. Outsourcing Novelty: The Externalisation of Innovative Activity 13. Services and Systems of Innovation 14. Intellectual Property Rights Shaping Innovation in Services 15. Global Knowledge Systems in a Service Economy 16. Understanding the New Service Economy References Index Contributors: B. Andersen, M. Boden, E. Bolisani, K. Flanagan, C. Hipp, J. Howells, R. Hull, I. Miles, J. Roberts, B.S. Tether, M. Tomlinson, P. Windrum
Aimed at MBA students, postgraduates and advanced level undergraduates, this text questions the n... more Aimed at MBA students, postgraduates and advanced level undergraduates, this text questions the naive, self interested and popularised messages that surround knowledge work and knowledge management. Case studies highlight the politics of new communications technologies which are frequently offered as a means for managing knowledge in the workplace.
Participatory event design opens up opportunities for the sustainable transformation of a communi... more Participatory event design opens up opportunities for the sustainable transformation of a community and can therefore make a valuable contribution to the field of critical event studies. This article discusses the findings from a participatory action research project developed with a community of visual artists in Zimbabwe. The project explored how participatory event design processes could be applied to the cocreation of an art exhibition that would be used as a platform to challenge the oppressive environment Zimbabwean visual artists are working in. The design of special events in the third sector is usually reliant on the voice of the specialist event designer or organizer who is commissioned by the funding or lead agency to develop an event intervention using risk-averse and time-efficient methods. Unfortunately, this can result in in the community of interest having a marginalized role in the proceedings and thus they lose a much-needed connection with the event intervention a...
Review article of Geoffrey M. Hodgson (1999) Economics & Utopia: Why the Learning Economy... more Review article of Geoffrey M. Hodgson (1999) Economics & Utopia: Why the Learning Economy is Not the End of History, London: Routledge. Introduction Debates and discussions of ‘the knowledge economy’ have proliferated in recent years, but without any seriously critical examination. I include among these debates and discussions the variations on much the same theme, such as the knowledge society, the information society, the informational society, ‘informatization’ and now ‘the learning economy’. If these were merely debates and discussions between intellectuals then this would not pose much of an urgent issue, but these debates and discussions are tightly linked to policy prescriptions, management strategies and real changes in the character of work, education and even leisure. To say they are tightly linked is to suspend judgement, for the time being, over the direction of determination, but it is to reject the notion that these debates and discussions are merely reflecting pre-existent material and substantive changes.
This article reports on a conference organized by the Santa Fe Group and Knowledge Based Developm... more This article reports on a conference organized by the Santa Fe Group and Knowledge Based Development Co Ltd, on ‘Complexity and Technology: Organizing for Innovation’, London, 10-11 March 1997.
Participatory event design opens up opportunities for the sustainable transformation of a communi... more Participatory event design opens up opportunities for the sustainable transformation of a community and can therefore make a valuable contribution to the field of critical event studies. This article discusses the findings from a participatory action research project developed with a community of visual artists in Zimbabwe. The project explored how participatory event design processes could be applied to the cocreation of an art exhibition that would be used as a platform to challenge the oppressive environment Zimbabwean visual artists are working in. The design of special events in the third sector is usually reliant on the voice of the specialist event designer or organizer who is commissioned by the funding or lead agency to develop an event intervention using risk-averse and time-efficient methods. Unfortunately, this can result in in the community of interest having a marginalized role in the proceedings and thus they lose a much-needed connection with the event intervention and are not committed to sustaining the desired change. We argue that there is an opportunity for events professionals to increase their skills and develop emancipatory approaches that will decolonize established event design processes and contribute to the sustainable transformation of marginalized communities.
This paper compares the macro- and micro analyses of techno-economic change. Arguing for perspect... more This paper compares the macro- and micro analyses of techno-economic change. Arguing for perspectives which are sensitive to the local flexibility of innovation but which can also provide suggestions for policy and intervention, it describes and reviews the two major contributions: work on Techno-Economic Networks, and on Techno-Economic Paradigms. It is argued that the former has greater depth of analytical sensitivity, whilst the latter is more policy-relevant. Whilst there are approaches, such as Constructive Technology Assessment, which attempt to combine the two perspectives, these are seen as failing to retain sensitivity to the power differentials between key actors such as firms, experts, governing agencies or citizens’ groups. The paper concludes by advocating attention to the ‘meso-level techno-economic’}the networks of institutions and actors at work in: geographically bounded systems of innovation; scientific and technological disciplines; firms, their strategies and linkages; and the nexus between production and consumption.
Review article of Geoffrey M. Hodgson (1999) Economics & Utopia: Why the Learning Economy is Not ... more Review article of Geoffrey M. Hodgson (1999) Economics & Utopia: Why the Learning Economy is Not the End of History, London: Routledge. Introduction Debates and discussions of ‘the knowledge economy’ have proliferated in recent years, but without any seriously critical examination. I include among these debates and discussions the variations on much the same theme, such as the knowledge society, the information society, the informational society, ‘informatization’ and now ‘the learning economy’. If these were merely debates and discussions between intellectuals then this would not pose much of an urgent issue, but these debates and discussions are tightly linked to policy prescriptions, management strategies and real changes in the character of work, education and even leisure. To say they are tightly linked is to suspend judgement, for the time being, over the direction of determination, but it is to reject the notion that these debates and discussions are merely reflecting pre-existent material and substantive changes.
... on Wiebe E. Bijker, "Do Not Despair: There Is Life After Constructivism" Richard Hu... more ... on Wiebe E. Bijker, "Do Not Despair: There Is Life After Constructivism" Richard Hull University of Manchester Institute of Science & Technology ... Trist and his colleagues thus claimed that the technology did not determine the relations of work. (Rose 1989,91) ...
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– Steven W. Staninger, Business Information Alert
Knowledge and innovation are key factors contributing to growth and prosperity in the new service economy. This book presents original, empirical and theoretical contributions to address the economic dimensions of knowledge and the organisation of knowledge intensive activity through specialised services. Specific analyses include:
• macro statistics to highlight the contribution of services to economic activity
• firm level survey data to identify and consider client relations
• case studies of four innovation-oriented business services.
Contents
Contents: 1. Introducing the New Service Economy 2. Knowledge and Innovation in the New Service Economy 3. The Contribution of Knowledge-Intensive Services to Manufacturing Industry 4. Competition and Innovation Amongst Knowledge Intensive and Other Service Firms: Evidence from Germany 5. Web Services: Knowledge of the New 6. Ecommerce: Servicing the New Economy 7. Environmental Services: Sustaining Knowledge 8. Computer Services: The Dynamics of a Knowledge-Intensive Sector 9. Knowledge Management Practices and Innovation 10. Services, Knowledge and Intellectual Property 11. The Internationalisation of Knowledge-Intensive Business Service Firms 12. Outsourcing Novelty: The Externalisation of Innovative Activity 13. Services and Systems of Innovation 14. Intellectual Property Rights Shaping Innovation in Services 15. Global Knowledge Systems in a Service Economy 16. Understanding the New Service Economy References Index Contributors: B. Andersen, M. Boden, E. Bolisani, K. Flanagan, C. Hipp, J. Howells, R. Hull, I. Miles, J. Roberts, B.S. Tether, M. Tomlinson, P. Windrum
Papers by Richard Hull
which are sensitive to the local flexibility of innovation but which can also provide suggestions for policy and intervention,
it describes and reviews the two major contributions: work on Techno-Economic Networks, and on Techno-Economic
Paradigms. It is argued that the former has greater depth of analytical sensitivity, whilst the latter is more policy-relevant.
Whilst there are approaches, such as Constructive Technology Assessment, which attempt to combine the two perspectives,
these are seen as failing to retain sensitivity to the power differentials between key actors such as firms, experts, governing
agencies or citizens’ groups. The paper concludes by advocating attention to the ‘meso-level techno-economic’}the
networks of institutions and actors at work in: geographically bounded systems of innovation; scientific and technological
disciplines; firms, their strategies and linkages; and the nexus between production and consumption.
Introduction
Debates and discussions of ‘the knowledge economy’ have proliferated in recent years, but without any seriously critical examination. I include among these debates and discussions the variations on much the same theme, such as the knowledge society, the information society, the informational society, ‘informatization’
and now ‘the learning economy’. If these were merely debates and discussions between intellectuals then this would not pose much of an urgent issue,
but these debates and discussions are tightly linked to policy prescriptions, management strategies and real changes in the character of work, education and
even leisure. To say they are tightly linked is to suspend judgement, for the time being, over the direction of determination, but it is to reject the notion that these
debates and discussions are merely reflecting pre-existent material and substantive changes.
– Steven W. Staninger, Business Information Alert
Knowledge and innovation are key factors contributing to growth and prosperity in the new service economy. This book presents original, empirical and theoretical contributions to address the economic dimensions of knowledge and the organisation of knowledge intensive activity through specialised services. Specific analyses include:
• macro statistics to highlight the contribution of services to economic activity
• firm level survey data to identify and consider client relations
• case studies of four innovation-oriented business services.
Contents
Contents: 1. Introducing the New Service Economy 2. Knowledge and Innovation in the New Service Economy 3. The Contribution of Knowledge-Intensive Services to Manufacturing Industry 4. Competition and Innovation Amongst Knowledge Intensive and Other Service Firms: Evidence from Germany 5. Web Services: Knowledge of the New 6. Ecommerce: Servicing the New Economy 7. Environmental Services: Sustaining Knowledge 8. Computer Services: The Dynamics of a Knowledge-Intensive Sector 9. Knowledge Management Practices and Innovation 10. Services, Knowledge and Intellectual Property 11. The Internationalisation of Knowledge-Intensive Business Service Firms 12. Outsourcing Novelty: The Externalisation of Innovative Activity 13. Services and Systems of Innovation 14. Intellectual Property Rights Shaping Innovation in Services 15. Global Knowledge Systems in a Service Economy 16. Understanding the New Service Economy References Index Contributors: B. Andersen, M. Boden, E. Bolisani, K. Flanagan, C. Hipp, J. Howells, R. Hull, I. Miles, J. Roberts, B.S. Tether, M. Tomlinson, P. Windrum
which are sensitive to the local flexibility of innovation but which can also provide suggestions for policy and intervention,
it describes and reviews the two major contributions: work on Techno-Economic Networks, and on Techno-Economic
Paradigms. It is argued that the former has greater depth of analytical sensitivity, whilst the latter is more policy-relevant.
Whilst there are approaches, such as Constructive Technology Assessment, which attempt to combine the two perspectives,
these are seen as failing to retain sensitivity to the power differentials between key actors such as firms, experts, governing
agencies or citizens’ groups. The paper concludes by advocating attention to the ‘meso-level techno-economic’}the
networks of institutions and actors at work in: geographically bounded systems of innovation; scientific and technological
disciplines; firms, their strategies and linkages; and the nexus between production and consumption.
Introduction
Debates and discussions of ‘the knowledge economy’ have proliferated in recent years, but without any seriously critical examination. I include among these debates and discussions the variations on much the same theme, such as the knowledge society, the information society, the informational society, ‘informatization’
and now ‘the learning economy’. If these were merely debates and discussions between intellectuals then this would not pose much of an urgent issue,
but these debates and discussions are tightly linked to policy prescriptions, management strategies and real changes in the character of work, education and
even leisure. To say they are tightly linked is to suspend judgement, for the time being, over the direction of determination, but it is to reject the notion that these
debates and discussions are merely reflecting pre-existent material and substantive changes.