Dedication

pp v-vi

Contents

pp vii-viii

List of Illustrations

pp ix-xii

Foreword: A Magnum Opus for Our Times and the Future

pp xiii-xvi

Odyssey: Social Capital Acknowledgements in the Intellectual Journey through the Micro, Macro and Meso Worlds of Reality

pp 1-10

Chapter One - Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Knowledge: Punctuated Equilibrium Theory, Knowledge Creators, Structural Change, Adaptive Problems, and Institutional Solutions

pp 11-42

Part One - Knowledge Creators or Problem Solvers: Creative Minds, Radical Organizational Innovations, and Regional Environments That Encourage Higher Radical Innovation Rates

pp 43-44

Chapter Two - Knowledge Creators: Individual Creativity

pp 45-82

Chapter Three - Knowledge Creators: Radical Organizational Innovation

pp 83-114

Chapter Four - Knowledge Creators: Institutional Environments That Encourage Radical Innovation

pp 115-146

Part Two - Structural Change: Structural Differentiation and Dedifferentiation in Occupations and Their Classes, Organizations and Their Contexts, Networks and Their Cohesions

pp 147-148

Chapter Five - Structural Changes in the Stratification System: New Occupations and Kinds of Social Classes

pp 149-180

Chapter Six - Structural Change in the Organization– Context Nexus: New Organizational Forms and Collaborative Competition

pp 181-212

Chapter Seven - Structural Change in Network Cohesion Links: New Coordinated Network Systems and Collaborative Social Cohesion

pp 213-240

Part Three - Adaptive Problems and Institutional Transformations Required to Create Meaningful Work, Employment, and Social Integration

pp 241-242

Chapter Eight - Knowledge Evolution and Adaptive Problems of the Skill Formation/ Research Capability System: Institutional Transformations That Produce New Skills and Reduce Alienation

pp 243-276

Chapter Nine - Knowledge Evolution and Adaptive Problems of the Economic System: Institutional Transformations to Create Decision- Making Jobs and Reduce Powerlessness

pp 277-306

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

pp 307-340

Chapter Eleven - Everything We Must Do to Further Social Evolution and Institutional Transformations: Solutions, Strategies, and the Stickiness of Path Dependencies

pp 341-352

A Future Voyage: The Fourth Stage of Knowledge Creation

pp 353-356

References

pp 357-386

Index

pp 387-402