"This handbook brings together essays by leading contributors to development sociology by addressing intellectual challenges: internal and international migration, transformation of political regimes, globalization, changes in household and family formations, gender dynamics, technological...

This paper investigates the influence of technological, geographic, and ethnic communities on the innovativeness of Indian inventors. We study Indian inventors in the semiconductor industry in the US and examine their patenting profiles between 1975 and 1999 to identify the influences on the...

Despite research pointing to the relationship between firm size and innovation, there exists strong evidence that small firms generate more innovations than large firms. However, these findings are influenced by variations in technological opportunities among industries and in geography. The...