This paper merges two theoretical perspectives in a mathematical game model: industrial organization on the one hand, which basically is the economic theory of market competition and firm strategies, and organizational ecology on the other, which is a major sociological tradition that studies...

The industrial organization of transactions has changed dramatically during the past decade (Thompson and Wright, 1988). Several scholars have discussed and documented the phenomenon of what has been called `the shrinking organization'' (Ford and Farmer, 1986; Lichtenberg, 1992). The apparent...

Het voorwerp van onderzoek van de wiskundige theorie van niet-lineaire dynamica - bekend geworden onder de naam chaostheorie - is het modelleren en begrijpen van turbulentie. De vaststelling dat het economische leven alsmaar dynamischer en onzekerder wordt, heeft vele economen doen grijpen naar...