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Frontmatter --Contents --Part I. Introduction --1 The Agenda --Part II. Evolvement of Innovations: Shape and Uses --2 State of Theory --3 Innovation Supply: The Marketing and Imitation Models --4 Technology as Process: Trajectories and Life Cycles --5 The Corporate User: Innovation-Design Capacity --Part IIL. Anglo-American Patterns of Organizing --6 Transatlantic Evolvement I: Americans and the Absorption Gap --7 Economy, Structuration and Region: A Basic Framework --8 British Systems of Organizing: Contexts and Directions into the First Divide --9 American Systems of Organizing: The Early Foundations --10 The American Market: A Key Base from 1870 to the 1960s --11 British Systems of Organizing: A Case of Incomplete Modernization? --12 Transatlantic Evolvement II: Britain and the Appropriation Gap --Part IV. Implications --13 Japan and the Pacific Rim: The New Competition --14 Summary and Implications --References --16 Author Index --17 Subject Index

This original and ambitious work provides a fascinating examination of organizations from both a post-modern and new organizational economics perspective. Combining strategy, international business and organisational theory, it represents a ground-breaking critique of prevailing mainstream modernist theories of organization. Distinctive features include:* a comprehensive analysis of social and organizational theory* discussion and exploration of knowledge capitalism * a critique of core competencies and resource based approaches to strategy, human resource management and organizational behavio

Introduction / Peter Clark and Jussi S. Jauhiainen -- London and green space, 1850-2000 : an introduction / David A. Reeder -- The social construction of green space in London prior to the Second World War / David A. Reeder -- Politics, ideology, and the issue of open space in London, 1939-2000 / Patricia L. Garside -- Stockholm and green space, 1850-2000 : an introduction / Lars Nilsson -- Stockholm's urban parks : meeting places and social contexts from 1860-1930 / Catharina Nolin -- The social park : Stockholm, 1900-1939 / Mats Deland -- The Stockholm style : a model for the building of the city in parks, 1930s-1960s / Lars Nilsson (with Stuart Burch) -- The formation of national urban parks : a Nordic contribution to sustainable development? / Peter Schantz -- Helsinki and green space, 1850-2000 : an introduction / Peter Clark and Marjatta Hietala -- The role of nature in the city : green space in Helsinki, 1917-60 / Katri Lento -- Politicians, professionals and 'publics' : conflicts over green space in Helsinki, c. 1950-2000 / Marjaana Niemi -- The seasonality of green space : the case of Uutela, Helsinki c. 2000 / Niko Lipsanen -- St. Petersburg and green space, 1850-2000 : an introduction / Boris Anan'ich and Alexander Kobak -- St. Petersburg's parks and gardens, 1850-1917 / Konstantin Semenov -- Red parks : green space in Leningrad, 1917-1990 / Alexei Kitaev

The second volume of The Cambridge Urban History examines when, why, and how Britain became the first modern urban nation - the wonder of the Western world. The contributors offer a detailed analysis of the evolution of national and regional urban networks in England, Scotland and Wales and assess the growth of all the main types of towns - from the rising imperial metropolis of London to the great provincial cities, country and market towns, and the new-style leisure and industrialising towns. They discuss problems of urban mortality and migration, the social organisation of towns, the growth of industry and the service sector, civic governance, and the rise of religious and cultural pluralism. This is the first ever comprehensive study of British towns and cities in the early modern period, the culmination of a generation of research on perhaps the most important social and geographical change in British history

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