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How Firm Organizations Adapt to SecureA Sustained Knowledge Transfer

Witt, Ulrich; Zellner, Christian - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2007

New knowledge with potential commercial value is created, replicated, and transferred in adistributed manner. The highly systemic nature of knowledge production and the need for anyknowledge to be individually acquired and expressed in order to produce an effect, jointlyconstrain the dynamics of...

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From Group Selection toOrganizational Interactors

Hodgson, Geoffrey M.; Knudsen, Thorbjørn - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2007

This paper builds on previous work within the conceptual framework of a generalizedDarwinism that clarifies such concepts as selection and replication. One of its aims is to refinethe concept of the interactor. An overview of the conditions under which group selection mayoccur helps us identify...

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Firm Entry and Institutional Lock-in:An Organizational Ecology Analysisof the Global Fashion Design Industry

Wenting, Rik; Frenken, Koen - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2007

Few industries are more concentrated than the global fashion industry. We analyse thegeography and evolution of the ready-to-wear fashion design industry by looking at the yearlyentry rates following an organizational ecology approach. In contrast to earlier studies onmanufacturing industries,...

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New Firms Evolving in the Knowledge Economy ;problems and solutions around turning points

Stam, Erik; Garnsey, Elizabeth - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2005

, capabilities approach, and evolutionary economics are usedas a foundation for a developmental approach. The development of the firm … and resource accumulation, which lead to the development of competences and capitalin a base made up of productive … notsolved, but positive consequences when they lead to new solutions and the development of newcompetence... …

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Evolution and Complexity in Economics Revisited

Dopfer, Kurt - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2011

The paper discusses recent trends in the sister sciences of evolutionary economics andcomplexity economics. It suggests that a unifying approach that marries the two strands isneeded when reconstructing economics as a science capable of tackling the two key questions ofthe discipline: complex...

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Heterogeneous Economic Evolution: A Different View on Darwinizing Evolutionary Economics

Vromen, Jack - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2010

Inspired by Peter Godfrey-Smith's book Darwinian Populations and Natural Selection (2009), the paper seeks to develop a view on Darwinizing evolutionary economics that differs from the view espoused in Hodgson and Knudsen project of Generalized Darwinism. It is argued that on Hodgson and...

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On the Evolution of Organizational Government

Congleton, Roger D. - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2010

This paper analyzes the design, refinement, and evolution of organizationalpolicymaking processes, that is to say, organizational governance. Governance procedureslike other aspects of organization are refined through time to advance formeteurinterests. Several mechanisms of evolution are...

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Can Darwinism Be “Generalized” and of What Use Would This Be?

Levit, Georgy S.; Hoßfeld, Uwe; Witt, Ulrich - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2010

principles of such a“Generalized Darwinism” are not those that in the development of evolutionary biology havebeen crucial for …

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Managing the Evolutionof Cooperation

Dormann, Julian; Ehrmann, Thomas; Kopel, Michael - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2008

Management scholars have long stressed the importance of evolutionary processsesfor inter-firm cooperation but have mostly missed the promising opportunityto incorporate ideas from evolutionary theories into the analysis of collaborativearrangements. In this paper, we first present three rules...

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Generalized Darwinism inEvolutionary Economics:The Devil is in the Details

Vromen, Jack - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2007

This paper is a follow-up on two earlier debates I was part of. One debate is documentedin a special issue of The Journal of Economic Methodology, edited by Matthias Klaes andcalled Symposium: Ontological Issues in Evolutionary Economics (2004) The other oneis reported in a special issue of The...

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