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Getting new things done : networks, brokerage, and the assembly of innovative action / David Obstfeld.
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Obstfeld, David, 1958- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Business networks.
- Social networks.
- Social skills.
- Project management.
- Technological innovations--Management.
- Technological innovations.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (ix, 260 pages.)
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford, California : Stanford Business Books, an imprint of Stanford University Press, [2017]
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- This book offers a framework that explains how innovators use network processes to broker knowledge and mobilize action. An entrepreneur launches a business. A company rolls out a new product line. Two firms form a partnership. These instances and many more like them dot today's business landscape. Yet we understand little about the social dimension of these undertakings. Disentangling brokerage from network structure and building on his theoretical work regarding tertius iungens, David Obstfeld explains how actors with diverse interests, expertise, and skills leverage their personal and intellectual connections to create new ventures and products with extraordinary results. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Brokerage in action
- Knowledge articulation
- Creative projects
- Mobilizing for routine-based innovation : NewCar's manual shifter redesign initiative
- Mobilizing to advance creative projects : NewCar's prototype parts purchasing activity
- A deeper examination of social skill
- Additional applications and implications.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Joel and Sanford Ehrenkranz Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781503603097
- 1503603091
- Publisher Number:
- 99973555050
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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