Sociological Innovation through Subfield Integration

Volume: 1, Issue: 3, Pages: 228 - 256
Published: Aug 20, 2014
Abstract
Is domain-spanning beneficial? Can it promote innovation? Classic research on recombinant innovation suggests that domain-spanning fosters the accumulation of diverse information and can thus be a springboard for fresh ideas—most of which emanate from the merger of extant ideas from distinct realms. But domain-spanning is also challenging to produce and to evaluate. Here, the domains of interest are subfields. We focus on subfield spanning in...
Paper Details
Title
Sociological Innovation through Subfield Integration
Published Date
Aug 20, 2014
Volume
1
Issue
3
Pages
228 - 256
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