This paper presents a new 29-item measurement instrument designed to assess the impact of habits and behaviour of business founders on organizational routines. Adopting an evolutionary approach, habits and routines are conceived as social replicators with the former impacting the latter. The...

This paper studies how cognitive and structural antecedents affect adaptation to disruptive innovations. We do so by analyzing how video game firms adapted to the "free-to-play" business model around the period of disruption (2012-2015). Our dataset (which contains 461 firms, collectively...

Insights from the cognitive sciences into the structure and functioning of the brain as an adaptive system can be deployed in the understanding of complex systems in general – and of the specific social complexes of market and science in particular. Science and market, as institutional...

Using insights from 'embodied cognition' and a resulting 'cognitive theory of the firm', I aim to contribute to the further development of evolutionary theory of organizations, in the specification of organizations as 'interactors' that carry organizational competencies as 'replicators', within...

In this paper I propose a novel abstract mechanism for the creation and diffusion of knowledge and use an agent based modelling approach to explore it. The mechanism takes into account the relation between the phenomena that agents attempt to explain and the stocks of knowledge available in a...

The objective of this article is to explore the emergence of cognitive cities as the next step in urban development and to provide insights to city planners and administrators on how to create a connected and efficient physical environment that serves its citizens. By examining the key features...