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...

This paper lays out an evolutionary theory for the cognitive foundations and cultural emergenceof the extravagant displays (e.g., ritual mutilation, animal sacrifice, and martyrdom) that have sooften tantalized social scientists, as well as more mundane actions that influence cultural...

This paper relates firm size and opportunism by showing that, given certain behavioraldispositions of humans, the size of a profit-maximizing firm can be determined by cognitiveaspects underlying firm-internal cultural transmission processes. We argue that what firms dobetter than markets –...

The paper gives attention to the question of whether the development of evolutionarytheories in biology over the last twenty years has any implications for evolutionaryeconomics. Though criticisms of Darwin and the modern synthesis have alwaysexisted, most of them have not been widely accepted...