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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…
Read more →The Journal of Management is calling for contributions to a special issue on “Managing in the Age of Disruption” The editors are Shahzad (Shaz) Ansari, University of Cambridge, UK Raghu Garud, Pennsylvania State University, USA Arun Kumaraswamy, West Chester University…
Read more →The economic history profession has lost one of its most original, creative, and wide-ranging minds in the passing of Nathan Rosenberg on Aug. 24, 2015. Rosenberg was one of the founding fathers of Cliometrics, a member of the first group…
Read more →China's economic development is one of the great stories of our time. Today (July 28, 2015) we are starting our special focus on China with a review new book on the development of China's innovative capacity. China's Path to Innovation written by…
Read more →We reported earlier on a conference bringing together business historians and evolutionary economic in Dublin. A set of papers that have grown out of the conference are not appearing as a special issue in the journal “Business History.” The contributors…
Read more →Sid Winter just won the 2015 Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research for “his deep empirical understanding of Schumpeterian processes of dynamic competition, generation of differential technological opportunities through appropriability conditions and the mechanisms driving dynamic capabilities in firms.” Full story.…
Read more →Management Organization Review has a new editor: Arie Lewin. Professor Lewin has many plans for taking the journal to the next level. One of them is to hold an annual conference to explore new ideas. MOR will hold its first…
Read more →We are all very sad that Steve passed away (See CMU obituary). Seven Klepper supported one of the senior scholars supporting the creation of economic-eovlution.net from the very beginning. On March 23, there was at event as part of the…
Read more →Your editor is traveling to China. The goal of the visit is to get a deeper understanding of what the future of China will likely look like. More specifically, the purpose is to become more knowledgeable about whether China will…
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