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Peter Murmann writes: For two decades I wanted to get a good estimate of how the number of distinct products have grown in the economy. Once I thought I could simply use bar codes that have been attached to products…
Read more →We are sad to announce that Richard R. Nelson has passed away. Here is an obituary that the International Schumpeter Society sent out. Dear ISS members, It is with great sadness that we have to inform you that Richard R.…
Read more →One out of 22,222 firms listed on the stock market will survive as an independent entity for 100 years. Most firms (45%) disappear from the stock market because of mergers or acquisitions. Source: Daepp, M.I.G., Hamilton, M.J., West, G.B., Bettencourt,…
Read more →Richard Nelson and Sidney Winter have been listed by the French Magazine Sciences Humaines among to top 100 economists of all time. You can read here (in French) how the magazine portrays Nelson and Winter’s intellectual contributions. Nelson and Winter’s…
Read more →Chris McKenna has shot a beautiful 5-min video introducing students what they will learn in a business history he runs at Oxford using Oxford and its environment as the material to be studied in the course. The chief assignment is…
Read more →Sid Winter talks with Knowledge@Wharton about his new book on “history friendly evolutionary models”, which he co-authored with Franco Malerba, Richard Nelson, and Luigo Orsenigo. The book deals with the interactions between innovation and industry evolution. Winter gives a quick…
Read more →Two important books on the American corporation have been written by Gerald Davis and Mark Mizruchi. They are reviewed by a very thoughtful essay by Braydon King in Contemporary Sociology and by Bruce Kogut in a shorter piece in ASQ.
Read more →This Management of Organization Review (MOR) special issue (edited by Suresh Bhagavatula, Ram Mudambi and Johann Peter Murmann) aims to explore the key features of the innovation and entrepreneurship eco-system in India. The objective of this Management and Organization Review…
Read more →Robert Gordon has written an important new book in which is spells out his detailed arguments why he expects American economic growth never to reach the levels achieved before 1970. Here are links to useful reviews of the book: 1.…
Read more →Building on the success of the first conference in Honk Kong, Management and Organization Review(MOR) will hold the 2nd frontier’s conference in Peking,China, October 5–7, 2016, and in Banglore, India, October 13–15, 2016. The theme of the conference is “The…
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