Solving Crises in Capitalism and Democracy
Book Release: June 21, 2025
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Can Democracy and Capitalism Co-exist for the benefit of all citizens?
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Economic inequality has risen to become a fundamental cornerstone of US economic policy, and divided a nation. Populism and economic stagnation threaten the foundations of democratic capitalism. As institutions fail to respond effectively, Systematic Coordinated Interorganizational Networks (SCIONs) offer a transformative path forward.
Sociologists introduce a new model to foster innovation and address societal injustice. SCIONs are a new model of societal coordination. The organizational model works to enhance workforce adaptability, manage welfare costs, and restore balance between law and order. By bridging the gaps between markets and government agencies, SCIONs create the platforms needed for compromise and collaboration that begins at the local level.
A must-read for policymakers, business leaders, academics, and engaged citizens, this book provides a roadmap to a more resilient, equitable, and sustainable future.
Jerald Hage is a distinguished sociologist and organizational theorist whose groundbreaking research has shaped our understanding of democracy, capitalism, institutional coordination, and innovation. With a prolific career spanning decades, Jerald has authored and edited 20 influential books and numerous highly cited papers that have profoundly impacted organizational theory, policy studies, and social change.
His research has tackled some of the most pressing challenges of our time, including rising inequality, economic stagnation, and the failures of institutional coordination. In his latest work, he furthers his research into Systematic Coordinated Interorganizational Networks (SCIONs)—a transformative approach to overcoming systemic inefficiencies in markets and government agencies.
Jerald has held prestigious academic positions and collaborated with leading scholars worldwide. His book Organizational Innovation and Organizational Change remains one of the most widely read papers in sociology, with nearly 28,000 total reads. His research has been translated into multiple languages, demonstrating its global impact.
With a career dedicated to advancing knowledge, shaping policy, and developing solutions for institutional resilience, Jerrald continues to be a thought leader in the fields of sociology, public policy, and innovation. His work is essential reading for scholars, policymakers, and anyone concerned with the future of democratic capitalism.
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Discover a collection of thought-provoking books that challenge conventional thinking and inspire progressive ideas. His books aim to inspire conversations, broaden perspectives, and ignite change.
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Saving Societies From Within Innovation and Equity Through Inter-Organizational Networks
By Jerald Hage, Joseph J. Valadez, Wilbur C. Hadden Copyright 2024
Moving beyond existing models from economics and political science, this book shows how crises in capitalism and democracy can be solved with Systemic coordinated inter-organizational networks.
It offers a new model of societal coordination that builds cooperation and trust while solving today’s modern and complex practical problems: Systemic coordinated inter-organizational networks (SCIONs). It details how SCIONs can quickly catalyze organizational change among interorganizational network members while providing a general framework for characterizing individual and organizational change. The chapters apply these theoretical ideas in an epic case study of the rebuilding of the health care system in rural Nicaragua after a major natural disaster (Hurricane Mitch). They provide lessons for public health program managers while contributing to the literatures on modes of coordination and on social capital.
The book is a vital text for upper-division courses on management, inter-organizational collaboration, crisis management and public health.
Knowledge Evolution and Societal Transformations
Action Theory to Solve Adaptive Problems
By Jerald Hage
Foreword by Michael Quinn Patton
Paperback, 418 Pages
ISBN:9781839982354
May 2022
Knowledge Evolution and Societal Transformation proposes a new paradigm based on the evolution of knowledge that synthesizes existing social science theories at three analytical levels. A central theme is how knowledge causes new problems and explains growing inequality. To solve these problems, systemic networks in education, economy, and political system are suggested.
Restoring the Innovative Edge
Driving the Evolution of Science and Technology
Jerald Hage
Imprint: Stanford Business Books
May 2011
328 Pages
Considerable evidence indicates that the U.S. is falling behind when it comes to innovation. In part, this shift stems from the globalization of research and the advancement of other nations. But, it also arises from a widespread failure to adapt to the competitive environment generated by the evolution of science and technology.
The objective of this book is to provide possible remedies for eight key obstacles that the U.S. faces in restoring its innovative edge. Understanding that these remedies are complex, each chapter also discusses the dilemmas and impediments that make change a challenge. Unlike other books that suggest simple fixes to the U.S. innovation crisis, this book argues that the management of innovation requires multiple interventions at four different levels: in research teams, organizations, economic and non-economic sectors, and society at large.
Restoring the Innovative Edge offers specific recommendations for new forms of data collection, fresh ideas about cooperation between the public and the private sectors in manufacturing research, and a policy evaluation model that measures technical progress—and obstacles to it—in real time. Moreover, the book's multi-level perspective allows for the integration of a number of specialties within Sociology and Management around the theme of a new socio-economic paradigm, built on ideas of evolution and failed evolution.
A strategy for the Analysis of Idea Innovation Networks and Institutions
Jerald Hage, J. Rogers Hollinsworth*
2000
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from the SAGE Social Science Collections. All Rights Reserved.
There is increasing evidence that innovative capacity of a society is linked to its international competitiveness and its rate of economic growth...
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Too Big to Innovate? Exploring Organizational Size and Innovation Processes in Scientific Research
Jonathon Mote1,*, Gretchen Jordan, Jerald Hage, Wilbur Hadden and Aleia Clark
2015
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Science and Public Policy, 43(3), 2016, 332–337
In this paper, we ask a very specific question: does organizational size have an impact on a research organization’s environment for innovation?
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Professor Emeritus Jerry Hage recently published a new book with his co-author, Wilbur Hadden, with Routledge.
About Jerry Hage
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Since retiring from formal teaching in 2000, Jerald Hage has published five books. The three most recent provide a complete theory for the discipline. Knowledge Evolution and Institutional Transformations (2020) argues that the major driver of social change is knowledge growth, which makes problems more complex that in turn require more complex solutions. Saving Societies From Within (with Valadez and Hadden, 2024) indicates that systemic coordinated inter-organizational networks or SCIONs are a superior mode of coordination when compared to markets and state coordination for some situations and especially complex problems and provides data for it. Solving the Crises of Capitalism and Democracy (Hadden, 2025) uses this idea to address four major crises: the lack of radical innovation, absence of diverse skill set trained individuals, exploding health and welfare costs, and the lack of balance between order and freedom in community security. These books provide an alternative to organizing society than socialism and can potentially help build a post-capitalism and post-democracy while reducing social inequality and the movement towards authoritarianism. Together they raise the status of sociology and help solve its recruitment problems by creating new caree
In addition, two of his previous published books have been republished, Social Causality (with Meeker) and State Responsiveness and State Activism: An Examination of the Social Forces and State Strategies that Caused the Rise in Social Expenditures in Britain, France, Germany and Italy for the Period 1870-1968, (with Hanneman and Gargan). Hage was made a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2015). He has held several Fulbright Grants to Chile.
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Notable Achievements Can Be Found Here
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Email Jerry: jerryhage@yahoo.com
Book Release: June 21, 2025