Information for Innovation: Managing Change from an Information Perspective
Author:   Stuart Macdonald (Professor, Management School, Professor, Management School, University of Sheffield)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
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Pages:   306
Publication Date:   09 April 1998
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Stuart Macdonald (Professor, Management School, Professor, Management School, University of Sheffield)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 14.50cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 22.40cm
Weight:   0.507kg
ISBN:  

9780198288251


ISBN 10:   0198288255
Pages:   306
Publication Date:   09 April 1998
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction 1: The Nature of Information 2: Change and Innovation 3: Sources of Information for Change and Innovation 4: The Flow of Information 5: The Mixing of Information 6: Resistance to Information: The Organization and the Independent Inventor 7: Information Intrigue: Controlling the Flow of Information 8: Information Innocence: High-Technology Policy and Technology Parks 9: Transfer without Transaction: Policy for Information Acquisition 10: Hidden Information Flow: Innovation in Eighteenth-Century Agriculture 11: The Illusion of Order: Innovation and the Patent System 12: Information and Control: Strategic Change in the Organization Concluding Thoughts

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Information for Innovation is a delight to read. The author attacks the subject with the intellectual incisiveness for which he is renowned. It will intrigue and challenge a diverse readership Jane Millar - THES Information for Innovation, by MacDonald is an interesting book, providing a fresh new perspective on a topic of particular interest to economies possessing ever more increasing knowledge intensive production processes. It is illustrated by a very broad and diverse range of examples, that demonstrate the general applicability of the chosen approach. Marcus Hagermeister, Information Economics and Policy, 2000


Information for Innovation, by MacDonald is an interesting book, providing a fresh new perspective on a topic of particular interest to economies possessing ever more increasing knowledge intensive production processes. It is illustrated by a very broad and diverse range of examples, that demonstrate the general applicability of the chosen approach. Marcus Hagermeister, Information Economics and Policy, 2000 Information for Innovation is a delight to read. The author attacks the subject with the intellectual incisiveness for which he is renowned. It will intrigue and challenge a diverse readership * Jane Millar - THES *


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Co-editor of the journal Prometheus (Carfax) 1977-87 Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, Reader, Department of Economics, University of Queensland

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