Gender and Innovation in the New Economy Women, Identity, and Creative Work /

• Main Authors: Poutanen, Seppo (Author), Kovalainen, Anne (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
• Subjects: Business.; Entrepreneurship.; Management.; Industrial management.; Economic sociology.; Business and Management.; Innovation/Technology Management.; Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology.

This book provides a thorough and novel examination of the gendered nature of innovations in the new economy. It tracks the contemporary shift from heavy industry to game industry and how this has altered relationships between gender, identity, corporate culture, creative work, and the future of bus...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Setting the scene
• 2. Gender in inventions and innovations
• 3 New economy, platform economy and gender
• 4 Innovations, gender and the new economy
• 5 Creative work and gender
• 6 Envisioning the future.