The book «Reassembling the Social» presents the fundamental thoughts of a leading social theorist on whata society is …

developed. It is argued that both the rhetoric of the 'improvement agenda' within construction and theories of innovation fail … concept of relative boundedness is offered. Relatively unbounded innovation is characterized by a lack of a coherent central …

this tool. The theoretical background discusses innovation from a Schumpeterian perspective; services on a socio … data analysis. The main results show this kind of Record as a multifaceted innovation that appears both on the macro-, meso …- and micro- levels. The Record is, also, an innovation in service and management that re-signifies the product of hospital …

three decades. Based on the sociologic theory of embeddedness of economic activities within social structures, indicators … are developed in order to describe the socio-spatial configuration of business networks related to enterprise?s innovation …

relationship between embeddedness and innovation. For example, is deep, local embeddedness associated with innovation in the early … the metal products industry. The research on innovation and geographic proximity, combined with a reconceptualisation of … the Granovetterian concept of embeddedness, provides the theoretical context. Among the issues addressed are whether deep …

-1216. Within the regional learning and innovation literature, the precise impact of regional 'culture' on firms' competitive … how the cultural embeddedness of firms in the region is best understood as a series of sustained tensions between: (1 … underpin innovation. Second, the paper measures the material impact of that regional cultural embedding on firms' innovative …

embeddedness on innovation. We also consider the effect of forms of organization within industrial districts at various stages of … product and process life, and we examine the negative aspects of embeddedness for innovation. We conclude with a discussion of …In this survey, we examine the operations of innovation processes within industrial districts by exploring the ways in …

a bilateral collaboration is determined by cognitive, relational, and structural embeddedness. Innovation results from …In this paper, we model the formation of innovation networks as they emerge from bilateral decisions. In contrast to … extent to which firms' knowledge complement each other. Previous collaborations (relational embeddedness) increase the …