Overview
- Suggests a reconceptualization of the study of gender and a fresh look at the borders between old and new economies
- Applies new ways of thinking about the current economic landscape and the role of gender across industries
- Emphasizes the importance of gender on innovation in line with contemporary, global issues
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About this book
This book provides a thorough and novel examination of the gendered nature of innovations in the new economy. It tracks the contemporary shift from heavy industry to game industry and how this has altered relationships between gender, identity, corporate culture, creative work, and the future of business. Through empirical research and theoretical analysis, the authors present their own carefully contextualized cases and conceptual frameworks relating themes of innovation and gender to recent theories concerning globalization and transnationalism.
This wide-ranging and interdisciplinary text provides readers with insightful entries on what innovations are and the ways innovation processes become gendered. It explores the business landscape based on creative work and offers a wealth of information for scholars of entrepreneurship, management, sociology, cultural studies, and communication.
Reviews
“This book brings a fresh approach to the new economy by putting gender into the center stage. Poutanen and Kovalainen make a real difference to the existing innovation research in business and in social sciences. This is an essential reading for academics, students and for policymakers.” (Professor Ellen Kuhlmann, Goethe-University Frankfurt, Institute for Economics, Labour and Culture, Germany and Karolinska Institute, Medical Management Centre, Sweden)
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Anne Kovalainen is Professor of Entrepreneurship at the University of Turku, Finland. She has published numerous books and articles on entrepreneurship, gender, and social research methodology and has led national and international research projects with funding from EU, Nordic Council of Ministers, and Academy of Finland. She is on the editorial board of several journals including Research in the Sociology of Work, Academy of Management Perspectives, and International Small Business Journal.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Gender and Innovation in the New Economy
Book Subtitle: Women, Identity, and Creative Work
Authors: Seppo Poutanen, Anne Kovalainen
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-52702-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Business and Management, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-52700-4Published: 07 June 2017
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-52702-8Published: 05 June 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 195
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Entrepreneurship, Innovation/Technology Management, Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology