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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. Further chapters deal with the specific
functions connected with knowledge, the new discipline of
'knowledge management', intellectual property rights, and the role
of knowledge in national and international economic systems.
Offering an overview of a highly important and pervasive set of
phenomena, this book outlines and illustrates the intellectual
agenda associated with the rise of a global services economy. It
will appeal to industrial and business economists, researchers,
students, policymakers and business analysts.
First published in 1998, this influential volume entered the debate
on Foreign Direct Investment in the UK and focuses on the role of
Multinational Enterprises (MNEs) in the service rather than
manufacturing and primary sectors. While the significance of the
service industry had been recognised (exceeding 60% of total GDP in
some countries at the time of original publication), the role of
FDIs has not. Joanne Roberts thus contributed to a woefully under
researched field, covering areas including international trade, the
organisational theory of the firm and the UK business sector.
First published in 1998, this influential volume entered the debate
on Foreign Direct Investment in the UK and focuses on the role of
Multinational Enterprises (MNEs) in the service rather than
manufacturing and primary sectors. While the significance of the
service industry had been recognised (exceeding 60% of total GDP in
some countries at the time of original publication), the role of
FDIs has not. Joanne Roberts thus contributed to a woefully under
researched field, covering areas including international trade, the
organisational theory of the firm and the UK business sector.
It has long been an interest of researchers in economics,
sociology, organization studies, and economic geography to
understand how firms innovate. Most recently, this interest has
begun to examine the micro-processes of work and organization that
sustain social creativity, emphasizing the learning and knowing
through action when social actors and technologies come together in
'communities of practice'; everyday interactions of common purpose
and mutual obligation. These communities are said to spark both
incremental and radical innovation. In the book, leading
international scholars critically examine the concept of
communities of practice and its applications in different spatial,
organizational, and creative settings. Chapters examine the
development of the concept, the link between situated practice and
different types of creative outcome, the interface between spatial
and relational proximity, and the organizational demands of
learning and knowing through communities of practice. More widely,
the chapters examine the compatibility between markets, knowledge
capitalism, and community; seemingly in conflict with each other,
but discursively not. Exploring the frontiers of current
understanding of situated knowing and learning, this book is for
all those interested in the economic sociology of organizational
creativity and knowledge capitalism in general.
Written in a lively, conversational style, Knowledge Management
looks at the nature of knowledge, including its definition and
measurement, before the main concepts and theoretical contributions
to knowledge management are reviewed and challenged, providing
fresh insights into the central debates. Conceived by Chris Grey as
an antidote to conventional textbooks, each book in the 'Very
Short, Fairly Interesting and Reasonably Cheap' series takes a core
area of the curriculum and turns it on its head by providing a
critical and sophisticated overview of the key issues and debates
in an informal, conversational and often humorous way. Suitable for
students of Business and Management courses at Undergraduate and
Postgraduate level and anyone interested in the concept of
knowledge management.
Assembling the foremost scholars in this innovative, distinctive
and expanding subject, internationally well-known critical
theorists John Armitage and Joanne Roberts present a
ground-breaking aesthetic, design-led and media-related examination
of the relations between historical and, crucially, contemporary
ideas of luxury. Critical Luxury Studies offers a technoculturally
inspired survey of the mediated arts and design, as well as a means
of comprehending the socio-economic order with novel philosophical
tools and critical methods of interrogation that are re-defining
the concept of luxury in the 21st century.
In a world that is obsessed with luxury, critical luxury studies is
a rapidly emerging field. This is the first book to explore the
interplay between the real and imaginary realms of luxury,
considering the most significant developments in the theories and
practices of luxurious places and spaces over the last fifty years.
Providing a critical approach to contemporary interpretations of
luxury, the book interrogates the distinction between real places
and imaginary spaces. Bringing together an interdisciplinary group
of leading scholars, it features a range of case studies which take
the reader from the Rolls-Royce Ghost Black Badge to expressions of
sensuality in the 1970s domestic interior, and global conceptions
of fine wine and art. The Third Realm of Luxury considers the
interplay between luxury and space in both the past and the
present, examining the abstract conception of excess and exoticism,
as well as the real locations of the home, hotel, apartment, and
palace. Full of original research, it is a key contribution to the
study of consumption, design, fashion, and architecture.
This innovative volume brings together contributions from leading
experts in the study of luxury to present the full range of
perspectives on luxury business, from a variety of social science
approaches. Topics include conceptual foundations and the evolution
of the luxury industry; the production of luxury goods; luxury
branding and marketing; distributing luxury; globalization and
markets; and issues of morality, inequality, and environmental
sustainability. The Oxford Handbook of Luxury Business is a
necessary resource for all students and researchers of the field as
well as for forward-thinking industry professionals.
Written in a lively, conversational style, Knowledge Management
looks at the nature of knowledge, including its definition and
measurement, before the main concepts and theoretical contributions
to knowledge management are reviewed and challenged, providing
fresh insights into the central debates. Conceived by Chris Grey as
an antidote to conventional textbooks, each book in the 'Very
Short, Fairly Interesting and Reasonably Cheap' series takes a core
area of the curriculum and turns it on its head by providing a
critical and sophisticated overview of the key issues and debates
in an informal, conversational and often humorous way. Suitable for
students of Business and Management courses at Undergraduate and
Postgraduate level and anyone interested in the concept of
knowledge management.
Cyberspace and cybertechnology have impacted on every aspect of our
lives. Western society, culture, politics and economics are now all
intricately bound with cyberspace. Living With Cyberspace brings
together the leading cyber-theorists of North America, Britain and
Australia to map the present and the future of
cyberspace.Presenting a guidebook to our new world, both the theory
and the practice, the book covers subjects as diverse as androids,
biotech, electronic commerce, the acceleration of everyday life,
access to information, the alliance between the military and the
entertainment industries, feminism, democratic practice and human
consciousness itself.Together, the essays--divided into separately
introduced sections on society, culture, politics and
economics--present a systematic and state-of-the-art overview of
technology and society in the 21st Century.Contributors: John
Armitage, Verena Andermatt Conley, James Der Derian, William H.
Dutton, Phil Graham, Tim Jordan, Wan-Ying Ling, David Lyon, Ian
Miles, Joanne Roberts, Saskia Sassen, Cathryn Vasseleu, McKenzie
Wark, Frank Webster
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