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Urban Innovation Networks: Understanding the City as a Strategic Resource

Urban Innovation Networks: Understanding the City as a Strategic Resource

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Business GeneralGeneral ArchitectureGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 3319246224
ISBN13: 9783319246222
Publisher: Springer
Published: Nov 18 2015
Pages: 123
Weight: 0.82
Height: 0.38 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

This book offers fresh insights into how companies can engage with, and make use of, the modern metropolis. Based on actor-network theory and the resource-based view of the firm, it demonstrates how the contemporary city can be seen - and used - as a resource for corporate innovation. The main argument is that companies have to build what the author calls urban innovation networks. After a theory-based outline of such networks, the author demonstrates the extent to which different institutional players - companies such as Audi, Ikea and Siemens, but also arts institutions like the Haus der Kunst in Munich - are already working to create them. The book combines management thinking with urban theory and the sociology of networks to create a unique blend of different views of capitalism and space, offering a new perspective on both the modern metropolis and globally operating companies active within our distinctly urban culture.

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