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Arnold  Windeler
  • Berlin, Land Berlin, Germany

    http://www.os.tu-berlin.de/v_menue/mitarbeiter/prof_arnold_windeler/
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»Innovationsgesellschaft heute: Die reflexive Herstellung des Neuen«. While innovation has shaped modern society from its very inception, it is currently gaining new dimensions: Innovation is becoming increasingly reflexive,... more
»Innovationsgesellschaft heute: Die reflexive Herstellung des Neuen«. While innovation has shaped modern society from its very inception, it is currently gaining new dimensions: Innovation is becoming increasingly reflexive, heterogeneously distributed, and ubiquitous. Reflexivity implies more than the intentional transformation of routine actions; it also refers to the transformation of social practices based on continuously (re-)produced knowledge about innovation. Thus, innovation itself becomes the aim and purpose of social activities: as the meaning and motif of (what we will refer to as the “semantics” of novelty), as a component of practical routines (the “pragmatics” of creative action), and, finally, as part of systematically (re-)produced social structures of generating novelty (the “grammar” of innovation regimes). Heterogeneous distribution refers to the observed shift from the individual entrepreneur to networks of innovation involving divergent actors. Ubiquity indicat...
In diesem Aufsatz formuliere ich einen Theorierahmen für die Erklärung der soziale Konstitution von Können und Kompetenz von Individuen, Organisationen und Netzwerken, der soziale Praktiken in den Mittelpunkt der Analyse rückt und auf... more
In diesem Aufsatz formuliere ich einen Theorierahmen für die Erklärung der soziale Konstitution von Können und Kompetenz von Individuen, Organisationen und Netzwerken, der soziale Praktiken in den Mittelpunkt der Analyse rückt und auf Arbeiten des englischen Soziologen Anthony Giddens (1984) aufbaut. Die Ausarbeitung eines solchen Theorierahmens ist gerade in modernen Gesellschaften mit ihrer erhöhten Reflexivität, ihren gestiegenen Risiken und Komplexitäten bedeutsam (Giddens 1990a). Denn diese Gesellschaften erfordern heute nicht nur von Akteuren zunehmend Kompetenzen; sie setzen heute auch vielfach auf moderne Organisation und Vernetzung als für die Gesellschaft adäquate Formen der Koordination (z.B. Powell 2001). Ob und inwiefern diese jedoch erlauben, gegebenenfalls sogar passende Kompetenzen zu entwickeln und die Kompetenzentwicklung wirklich erleichtern, sind offene Fragen der Kompetenzforschung. Selbstredend sind diese auch empirisch zu beantworten. Vorgelagert ist jedoch di...
Innovation society today: The reflexive creation of novelty While innovation has shaped modern society from its very inception, it is currently gaining new dimensions: Innovation is becoming increasingly reflexive, heterogeneously... more
Innovation society today: The reflexive creation of novelty While innovation has shaped modern society from its very inception, it is currently gaining new dimensions: Innovation is becoming increasingly reflexive, heterogeneously distributed, and ubiquitous. Reflexivity implies more than the intentional transformation of routine actions; it also refers to the transformation of social practices based on continuously (re-)produced knowledge about innovation. Thus, innovation itself becomes the aim and purpose of social activities: as the meaning and motif of (what we will refer to as the “semantics” of novelty), as a component of practical routines (the “pragmatics” of creative action), and, finally, as part of systematically (re-)produced social structures of generating novelty (the “grammar” of innovation regimes). Heterogeneous distribution refers to the observed shift from the individual entrepreneur to networks of innovation involving divergent actors. Ubiquity indicates the cur...
... Aber wie muss man diese Befunde interpretieren? ... Klassisch ist hier an die Aufbereitung der Bedeutung von informellen Gruppen im Rahmen der Hawthorne Studies (Roethlisberger/Dickson 1947) durch George C. Homans (1960) zu denken. ...
Die Organisation der Content-Produktion ist in modernen Gesellschaften hoch bedeutsam, aber weitgehend unerforscht. Bedeutsam ist sie, da Massenmedien wie das Fernsehen in entwickelten Gesellschaften nicht nur eine wichtige Rolle für die... more
Die Organisation der Content-Produktion ist in modernen Gesellschaften hoch bedeutsam, aber weitgehend unerforscht. Bedeutsam ist sie, da Massenmedien wie das Fernsehen in entwickelten Gesellschaften nicht nur eine wichtige Rolle für die Herausbildung von Identitäten und Meinungen, Gruppenzugehörigkeiten und Gesellschaftsvorstellungen sondern auch für die Vereinsamung und Entfremdung der Individuen in der Gesellschaft spielen (Holzer 1994; Silverblatt 2004; Lange 2008). Bedeutsam ist
... Institute of Business Administration, Free University of Berlin, sydow@wiwiss.fu-berlin.de ** Institute of Sociology, University of Technology Berlin, arnold.windeler@tu-berlin.de,cornelius.schubert@tu-berlin.de *** Max Planck... more
... Institute of Business Administration, Free University of Berlin, sydow@wiwiss.fu-berlin.de ** Institute of Sociology, University of Technology Berlin, arnold.windeler@tu-berlin.de,cornelius.schubert@tu-berlin.de *** Max Planck Institute for the Studies ... Child and Faulkner 1998). ...
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This article examines how multinational corporations (MNCs) shape institutional conditions in emerging economies to secure access to high-skilled, yet lower-cost science and engineering talent. Based on two in-depth case studies of... more
This article examines how multinational corporations (MNCs) shape institutional conditions in emerging economies to secure access to high-skilled, yet lower-cost science and engineering talent. Based on two in-depth case studies of engineering offshoring projects of German automotive suppliers in Romania and China we analyze how MNCs engage in ‘active embedding’ by aligning local institutional conditions with global offshoring strategies and operational needs. MNCs thereby contribute to the structuration of field relations and practices of sourcing knowledge-intensive work from globally dispersed locations. Our findings stress the importance of institutional processes across geographic boundaries that regulate and get shaped by MNC activities.
Interfirm networks in general and strategic networks in partic- ular are considered as an organizational form with distinct struc- tural properties. Due to a lack of adequate theory, the working of network processes as well as the... more
Interfirm networks in general and strategic networks in partic- ular are considered as an organizational form with distinct struc- tural properties. Due to a lack of adequate theory, the working of network processes as well as the resulting network effec- tiveness is not very ...
... Giddens 1984, p. 3). But although agents are routinely involved in this kind of reflexivemonitoring of action and despite their permanent rationalization of actions they are not always able to give reasons for their actions... more
... Giddens 1984, p. 3). But although agents are routinely involved in this kind of reflexivemonitoring of action and despite their permanent rationalization of actions they are not always able to give reasons for their actions discursively. ...

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