Recent studies of sectoral specialisation and technological development across market economies have shown how contrasting patterns of technical change can be explained by the different institutional frameworks that have become established in distinct types of economy (see, e.g., Casper, 2000;...

Despite the attention that strategic change as a topic of research has received, there remainconsiderable difficulties in conceptualizing the actual sources of strategic change. Using theconcept of strategic episodes, this paper develops an endogenous theory of change, where thesources of change...

In this paper Luhmanns concept of autopoietic social systems will be explained. Redaktion EconBiz]

This paper explores the form and function of organisational interactions from the perspective of Luhmanns Theory of Social Systems.