In this paper, we consider how a better understanding of entrepreneurial activities can help explain how firm and industry boundaries change over time; and how a more complete understanding of boundary setting can help us understand where entrepreneurial activities are directed. We argue that...

We discuss in some detail two approaches to the replication of practices between units within an organization or a family of organizations. One approach involves the use of causal principles and the other relies on an extant working example (a template). Definitions are provided for the key...

David J. Teece discusses with Sidney G. Winter some of the major contributions of Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. Topics discussed include path dependence and the organizational embeddedness of competences and capabilities, the recent financial crisis, and the electronic century in terms of Chandler's...

In some economics textbooks production theory is developed axiomatically. The divisibility axiom presents a bold affront to realism. It distorts the static theory and forecloses some potential encounters with technological change. The article reviews propositions about geometrical scaling that...

In this article, we present a history-friendly model of the changing vertical scope of computer firms during the evolution of the computer and semiconductor industries. The model is ldquo;history-friendly,rdquo; in that it attempts at replicating some basic, stylized qualitative features of the...

This article offers a sketch of what an economic theory of the firm would look like if it were founded on the thought of Joseph Schumpeter, particularly on Chapters 1 and 2 of his Theory of Economic Development. Schumpeterian analysis requires an intuitively appealing and realistic...

Organizational routines are considered basic components of organizational behavior and repositories of organizational capabilities (Nelson amp; Winter, 1982). They do, therefore, hold one of the keys to understanding organizational change. The article focuses on how the concept of organizational...

In this paper, we consider how a better understanding of entrepreneurial activities can help explain how firm and industry boundaries change over time and how a more comprehensive understanding of boundary setting can explain where entrepreneurial activities are directed. We start from the...