'This highly original book examines how novelty creation in the arts and sciences leads to new innovative movements and approaches. An important addition to our understanding of creativity and change.' Glenn Morgan, University of Bristol

★ A collaborative work by Richard Whitley—Professor Emeritus of Organizational Sociology at the University of Manchester, Foreign Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities, former Visiting Professor of Management at the University of Hong Kong, and President of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics—and Jochen Gläser, Professor and Chair of Sociology of Science and Technology at the Technical University of Berlin!
★ Featuring a fresh perspective, robust theoretical grounding, and rigorous argumentation, this book focuses on the mechanisms of innovation within the arts and sciences. It provides an in-depth analysis of how innovation drives sectoral transformation and fosters long-term cultural change. By integrating sociological and historical lenses with comparative case studies, the book systematically elucidates the complete logic behind the emergence, diffusion, and industry-reshaping power of innovation. It serves as an authoritative academic reference for the study of creative cultures and knowledge-based industries.

This book explores how lasting forms of change take shape in the modern arts and sciences, which became organized as fields that valued originality and continual innovation between the 17th and 19th centuries.
Using comparative case studies, the authors show how certain artistic and scientific contributions become established as innovations – shifting the aims, methods and everyday practices of creative practitioners over time.
Bridging history and sociology, this book offers valuable insight into how innovations emerge, gain traction and ultimately reshape the fields in which they develop. It is an essential resource for scholars interested in the processes that drive long-term change in creative and knowledge-producing communities.

Richard Whitley
Richard Whitley is Professor Emeritus of Organizational Sociology at the University of Manchester, a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities, a former visiting professor of management at the University of Hong Kong, and President of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE).
After conducting research at the University of Pennsylvania, Richard Whitley joined the Manchester Business School in 1968. He has written extensively on the organization of the natural and social sciences, most notably in his seminal work, *The Intellectual and Social Organization of the Sciences* (Oxford University Press, 1984; 2000).
In recent years, his research has focused on the nature of capitalism in East Asia and Western Europe, the development of enterprises and markets in Eastern Europe, and the construction of innovation systems. His recent publications on these topics include: *Business Systems in East Asia* (Sage, 1992), *European Business Systems* (Sage, 1992), *European Firms in Transition* (Routledge, 1996), *Governance at Work: The Social Regulation of Economic Relations* (Oxford University Press, 1997), *Divergent Capitalisms: The Social Structuring and Change of Business Systems* (Oxford University Press, 1999), *National Capitalism, Global Competition, and Economic Performance* (Benjamin, 2000), *Multinational Firms* (Oxford University Press, 2001), *Competing Capitalisms* (Edward Elgar, 2002), and *Capitalism in Transformation?* His other works include *Internationalization, Institutional Change, and Economic Organization* (Oxford University Press, 2005), *Business Systems and Organizational Capabilities: The Institutional Structuring of Competitive Competences* (Oxford University Press, 2007), *Reconfiguring Knowledge Production: Changing Authority Relationships in the Sciences and Their Impact on Knowledge Innovation* (Oxford University Press, 2010), *Capitalism and Capitalism in the Twenty-First Century* (Oxford University Press, 2012), and *Changing Asian Business Systems* (Oxford University Press, 2016). He has also co-edited *The Transformation of Scientific Governance: The Emergence of Research Evaluation Systems* (Springer, 2007), *The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Institutional Analysis* (Oxford University Press, 2010), and *Organizational Transformation and Scientific Change: The Impact of Institutional Restructuring on Universities and Knowledge Innovation* (Emerald, 2014).
Several of his works—including *The Intellectual and Social Organization of the Sciences*, *Varieties of Capitalism*, and *Research Evaluation Systems*—have been published in China. He has also served as an editor for the journals *Organization Studies* and *Journal of Management Studies*.
Richard served as co-director of the European Science Foundation’s program on "Management and Organization in Europe in Transition" (1993–1997), chair of the European Group for Organizational Studies (1998–1999), and president of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (1999–2000). His academic appointments include: visiting professor of management at the University of Hong Kong (1988); fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences (1998–1999); visiting professor at the Institute of Innovation Research, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo (1999–2000); and visiting professor of comparative business systems at Erasmus University Rotterdam (2000–2004). In 2007, he was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities.

Jochen Gläser
Professor and Chair of Sociology of Science and Technology at the Technical University of Berlin; member of the Society for Science and Technology Studies (GWTF) and the German Sociological Association (DGS). He also serves as a researcher at the Centre for Research on Evaluation, Science and Technology (CREST) ​​at Stellenbosch University.

1. Introduction
2. The Institutionalization of the Modern Arts and Sciences as Novelty-Driven Fields
3. Varieties of Innovation and Change in Novelty-Driven Fields
4. The Social Contexts of Innovation Development in the Modern Arts and Sciences
5. Developing Different Kinds of Innovations in Different Art and Science Worlds
6. Developing Innovations in Changing Art Worlds and Science Worlds