Architectures of Knowledge: Firms, Capabilities, and Communities

by Ash Amin, Patrick Cohendet

Overview

This collection of cutting-edge research reviews the evolution of the American corporation, the dominant trends in the way it has been studied, and at the same time introduces some new perspectives on the historical trajectory of the business organization as a social institution. The authors draw on cultural theory, anthropology, political theory and legal history to consider the place of the firm in nineteenth and twentieth-century American Society.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780199253326
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	03/25/2004
Pages:	200
Product dimensions:	9.30(w) x 6.30(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Durham University

University Louis Pasteur

Editorial Reviews

"This book provides a fruitful interrogation of the effect of interaction on the production of knowledge, asking how knowledge is produced and shared when economic agents work together. By bringing together such a rich and varied selection of conceptual ideas, and by weaving them into a compelling story, Amin and Cohendet will no doubt succeed in inspiring many others to explore new relational geographies of knowing through more intensive, detailed empirical analysis. Our emerging understanding of the ever-evolving geographies of knowledge production and circulation will be the richer for it." —Economic Geography

"In Architectures of Knowledge, Ash Amin and Patrick Cohendet provide a comprehensive synthesis of approaches to the production and use of knowledge in firms...The strength of the book is the interplay between the knowledge and theoretical positions of the two authors."—Regional Studies

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