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- This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access
- Presents a novel theoretical and empirical insight in the geography of knowledge
- Offers an original focus on the intersection of knowledge, social networks and space
- Contributions by leading experts from multidisciplinary perspectives show how space and networks affect processes of learning
Part of the book series: Knowledge and Space (KNAS, volume 11)
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About this book
This book discusses a core question in many fields of the social sciences, namely how to create, share and adopt new knowledge. It creates an original space for conversation between two lines of research that have developed largely in parallel for a long time: social network theory and the geography of knowledge. This book considers that relational thinking has become increasingly important for scholars to capture societal outcomes by studying social relations and networks, whereas the role of place, space and spatial scales has been somewhat neglected outside an emergent geography of knowledge.
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Emmanuel Lazega is professor of sociology at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris, a membre of the Centre de Sociologie des Organisations (CNRS), and current president of the European Academy of Sociology. His current research focuses on the dynamics of multilevel (individual and organizational) networks. He recently co-edited, with Tom A.B. Snijders, Multilevel Network Analysis for the Social Sciences: Theory, Methods and Applications, Springer, 2016.
Ingmar Hammer is research associate at the University of Heidelberg. He studied geography, business and GIS at the University of Stuttgart and wrote his diploma thesis on innovation networks in biotechnology. Furthermore, Ingmar Hammer has worked in various companies in the high-tech sector. Among his research interests are innovation and business networks, methods of the social network analysis and their application to the analysis of business networks as well as geographies of services.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Knowledge and Networks
Editors: Johannes Glückler, Emmanuel Lazega, Ingmar Hammer
Series Title: Knowledge and Space
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-45023-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-45022-3Published: 13 January 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-83189-3Published: 14 July 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-45023-0Published: 05 January 2017
Series ISSN: 1877-9220
Series E-ISSN: 2543-0580
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 386
Number of Illustrations: 16 b/w illustrations, 29 illustrations in colour
Topics: Human Geography, Innovation/Technology Management, Economic Geography, Knowledge - Discourse