In this paper I argue that it makes no sense to have "innovation theories", or the use of the concept in describing the potential of social and economic theories to explain the phenomenon of non-equilibrium. If we wish to explain dynamic, change, evolution, revolution, etc. in socio-economic...

Many economists and psychologists refuse the idea that behaviour could be based on any other motives than selfish and hedonistic ones, at least in the context of economy, mainly based on a methodological premise, not so often on empirical research. The corresponding image of man that is inherent...

Dieser Beitrag faßt einige Befunde aus den standardisierten Erhebungen sowie den Fallstudien des Projekts "Innovationsfähigkeit durch Institutionelle Reflexivität“ zusammen und stellt zunächst nochmals Grundzüge des zugrundeliegenden theoretischen Ansatzes vor. Es handelt sich hier um...