Jerald Hage

Knowledge Evolution and Societal Transformations (eBook, ePUB)

Action Theory to Solve Adaptive Problems

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Knowledge Evolution and Societal Transformation proposes a new paradigm based on the evolution of knowledge that synthesizes existing social science theories at three analytical levels. A central theme is how knowledge causes new problems and explains growing inequality. To solve these problems, systemic networks in education, economy, and political system are suggested.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Anthem Press
• Seitenzahl: 418
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. April 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781785273773
• Artikelnr.: 59187111

Autorenporträt

Jerald Hage has spent his professional life combining theory and research to solve individual, organizational, and societal problems. He has published 17 books and over 100 articles on the themes of organizational innovation, science and technology, post-industrial lives, the active state, and systemic coordinated networks. He has also taught and consulted in a number of countries.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations; Foreword: A Magnum Opus for Our Times and the Future
by Michael Quinn Patton; Odyssey: Social Capital Acknowledgements in the
Intellectual Journey through the Micro, Macro and Meso Worlds of Reality;
Chapter One Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Knowledge: Punctuated
Equilibrium Theory, Knowledge Creators, Structural Change, Adaptive
Problems, and Institutional Solutions; Part One Knowledge Creators or
Problem Solvers: Creative Minds, Radical Organizational Innovations, and
Regional Environments That Encourage Higher Radical Innovation Rates;
Chapter Two Knowledge Creators: Individual Creativity; Chapter Three
Knowledge Creators: Radical Organizational Innovation; Chapter Four
Knowledge Creators: Institutional Environments That Encourage Radical
Innovation; Part Two Structural Change: Structural Diff erentiation and
Dediff erentiation in Occupations and Their Classes, Organizations and
Their Contexts, Networks and Their Cohesions; Chapter Five Structural
Changes in the Stratifi cation System: New Occupations and Kinds of Social
Classes; Chapter Six Structural Change in the Organization- Context Nexus:
New Organizational Forms and Collaborative Competition; Chapter Seven
Structural Change in Network Cohesion Links: New Coordinated Network
Systems and Collaborative Social Cohesion; Part Three Adaptive Problems and
Institutional Transformations Required to Create Meaningful Work,
Employment, and Social Integration; Chapter Eight Knowledge Evolution and
Adaptive Problems of the Skill Formation/ Research Capability System:
Institutional Transformations That Produce New Skills and Reduce
Alienation; Chapter Nine Knowledge Evolution and Adaptive Problems of the
Economic System: Institutional Transformations to Create Decision- Making
Jobs and Reduce Powerlessness; Chapter Ten Knowledge Evolution and Adaptive
Problems of the Political System: Institutional Transformations to Create
Safety Nets for the Socially Isolated/Mentally Ill and Constructing a New
Democracy; Chapter Eleven Everything We Must Do to Further Social Evolution
and Institutional Transformations: Solutions, Strategies, and the
Stickiness of Path Dependencies; A Future Voyage: The Fourth Stage of
Knowledge Creation; References; Index.