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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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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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The Adaptation Problem, Evolutionand Normative Economics

Qizilbash, Mozaffar - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2007

Amartya Sen has advanced a number of distinct arguments against utilitarianism and‘utility’-based views more generally. One of these invokes various ways in whichunderdogs can ‘adapt’ and learn to live with their situations. Sen’s argument is related toJon Elster’s discussion of...

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On the divergence of research paths inevolutionary economics:a comprehensive bibliometric account

Silva, Sandra Tavares; Teixeira, Aurora A.C. - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2006

In the last two decades there has been a noticeable increase in published research inevolutionary economics. The idea that formal modelling is a sine qua non condition forestablishing a rigours and coherence scientific frame, has led to an over concern withformalization issues among evolutionary...

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The Origins of Meso EconomicsSchumpeter's Legacy

Dopfer, Kurt - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2006

development ‘fromwithin’ (macro). It is argued that Schumpeter paved the way for a new micro–meso–macro framework in economics … genericequilibrium. Economic development occurs at the deep level as transition from onegeneric rule to another, inducing a change of …

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Perception and pursuitof entrepreneurial opportunities:an evolutionary economics perspective

Bünstorf, Guido - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2006

entrepreneurialopportunities, but also the further development of the entrepreneurial venture is dependent onsubjective opportunity perception and …

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