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

by Anne Kovalainen (Author), Anne Kovalainen (Author), Seppo Poutanen (Author)

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2017
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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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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.

$155.20

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 204
Edition: 1st ed. 2017
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 07 Jun 2017
ISBN 10: 1137527005
ISBN 13: 9781137527004
Book Overview: This book has been long awaited! Through rich data analysis and engaging vignettes, the authors make the complex relationships between gender, the platform economy, digitalization, and the Internet clear and intelligible for the reader. Poutanen and Kovalainen create a new synoptic view of the often forgotten role of women in invention and innovation. The work is laudably future-oriented, as the authors set gender relationships at the heart of the rapidly developing new economy. (Professor Robert Blackburn, Kingston Business School, Kingston University, President European Council for Small Business and Entrepreneurship) 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)

Author Bio

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.