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• Advances and challenges in innovation studies

  - 2005-03-01

  The study of innovation is a relatively young and fast-growing branch of social science. Mainly inspired by the work of Joseph Schumpeter and by other research traditions outside the economics mainstream, it has developed as an interdisciplinary field studying the relationships among economic, technological, organizational, and institutional changes. In his...

  Tags: analysis, innovation, knowledge, Leadership, Learning, Nelson, Richard, scholar, Strategy, Technologies, technology, theory, Unemployment, University of Oxford, Winter

• Policy change and discourse in Europe: can the EU make a 'square meal out of a stew of paradox'?

  - 2004-03-01

  'Discursive institutionalism' provides a potentially fruitful means of overcoming the tendential structuralism of much new institutionalist scholarship. In particular, it focuses attention on the interplay of structure and agency and raises important questions about how far we should expect policy--and indeed the polity--to be coherent. Radaelli and Schmidt's drawing together...

  Tags: agency, analysis, Europe, European Commission, integration, MARKETING, theory, University of Oxford

• Book reviews -- The Evolution of Life Histories by Stephen C. Stearns / The Evolution of Life Histories: Theory and Analysis by Derek A. Roff

  - 1994-04-01

  The Evolution of Life Histories, by Stephen C. Stearns. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992. 249 pp. 29.95 paper.The Evolution of Life Histories: Theory and Analysis, by Derek A. Roff. New York: Chapman & Hall, 1992. 535 pp. 35.00 paper."Life history" is a confusing term because it refers to lots...

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