Gender and Innovation in the New Economy: Women, Identity, and Creative Work - Hardcover

Poutanen, Seppo; Kovalainen, Anne

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1137527005 ISBN 13: 9781137527004

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017

Synopsis

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.

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Review:

"This book not only provides relevant insights into how inventions and innovations, particularly the digitalised 'new economy', are highly gendered but explicitly applies it to the entrepreneurial realm and entrepreneurial finance. ... The chapters include illustrative case studies that relate the theories to the 'real world', as well as shed light on the gendered processes and phenomena that characterise topical contemporary technological and entrepreneurial developments." (Jonathan M. Scott, International Small Business Journal ISBJ, September, 2018)

About the Author:

Seppo Poutanen is Senior Researcher and Docent of Sociology of the School of Economics at the University of Turku, Finland. His research interests include social epistemology, social theory, sociology of science, methodology of social sciences, and economic sociology. He is widely published in academic journals such as Social Epistemology, Critical Public Health, Journal of Critical Realism, Sociological Research Online, International Journal of Gender and Entrepreneurship as well as in several edited volumes. 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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1137527005
• ISBN 13: 9781137527004
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 203