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Evolutionary Theory in Management and Organization Theory at the Beginning of a New Millennium: A Symposium on the State of the Art and Opportunities for Future Research in Evolutionary Theory. You can now read a transcript of the symposium that…
Read more →A conference took place in honor of the Richard R. Nelson at Columbia University in New York. Click here for details on the conference and the papers presented. You can read here Sidney Winter’s speech The Evolution of Dick Nelson…
Read more →It’s great to see you all here. I had barely walked in the door and saw all these wonderful and familiar faces, and I thought, this is just the sort of crowd that Dick Nelson can attract. If I am…
Read more →Design Rules, Vol.1: The Power of Modularity by Carliss Baldwin and Kim Clark From the Publisher: We live in a dynamic economic and commercial world, surrounded by objects of remarkable complexity and power. In many industries, changes in products and…
Read more →[From etss.net] We are kicking off our book review feature today (February 8, 2000) with Howard Aldrich's new oeuvre "Organizations Evolving." (Click on title for table of contents) Hayagreeva Rao and Arthur Stinchcombe have read the book over the holidays for us…
Read more →Abstracts of important new working papers by Joel Mokyr are now posted.
Read more →The Demography of Corporations and Industries by Glenn R. Carroll and Michael T. Hannan The publisher’s preview: The Demography of Corporations and Industries is the first book to present the demographic approach to organizational studies in its entirety. It examines…
Read more →Sources of Industrial Leadership: Studies of Seven Industries. David Mowery and Richard R. Nelson This book describes and analyzes how seven major high-tech industries evolved in the USA, Japan, and Western Europe. The industries covered are machine tools, organic chemical…
Read more →Winner of the Pulitzer Prize. In this "artful, informative, and delightful" (William H. McNeill, New York Review of Books) book, Jared Diamond convincingly argues that geographical and environmental factors shaped the modern world. Societies that had had a head start in food…
Read more →This book examines the initial commercial uses of genetic engineering. Genetic engineering is one of the most modern, controversial and dynamic of the science based technologies. It is not an object but a set of techniques or way of doing…
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