The Emergence of Organizations and Markets /

The Emergence of Organizations and Markets / / Walter W. Powell, John F. Padgett.

The social sciences have sophisticated models of choice and equilibrium but little understanding of the emergence of novelty. Where do new alternatives, new organizational forms, and new types of people come from? Combining biochemical insights about the origin of life with innovative and historical...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
VerfasserIn:
Padgett, John F.,
Powell, Walter W.,
MitwirkendeR:
Colfer, Lyra,
Colyvas, Jeannette A.,
Ferraro, Fabrizio,
Fleming, Lee,
Marin, Alexandra,
Maroulis, Spiro,
McMahan, Peter,
McPhie, Jonathan,
O'Mahony, Siobhán,
Obert, Jonathan,
Owen-Smith, Jason,
Packalen, Kelley,
Padgett, John F.,
Powell, Walter W.,
Sandholtz, Kurt,
Shekshnia, Stanislav,
Spicer, Andrew,
Stark, David,
Vedres, Balázs,
Whittington, Kjersten,
Yakubovich, Valery,
Zhong, Xing,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2012]
©2013
Year of Publication:2012
Edition:Core Textbook
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (608 p.) :; 142 color illus. 46 tables.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Contributors
  • Illustrations
  • Tables
  • Acknowledgments
  • The Problem of Emergence
  • Part I. Autocatalysis
  • 2. Autocatalysis in Chemistry and the Origin of Life
  • 3. Economic Production as Chemistry II
  • 4. From Chemical to Social Networks
  • Part II. Early Capitalism and State Formation
  • The Emergence of Corporate Merchant-Banks in Dugento Tuscany
  • 6. Transposition and Refunctionality
  • 7. Country as Global Market
  • 8. Conflict Displacement and Dual Inclusion in the Construction of Germany
  • Part III. Communist Transitions
  • 9. The Politics of Communist Economic Reform
  • 10. Deviations from Design
  • 11. The Emergence of the Russian Mobile Telecom Market
  • 12. Social Sequence Analysis
  • Part IV. Contemporary Capitalism and Science
  • 13. Chance, Nécessité, et Naïveté
  • 14 Organizational and Institutional Genesis
  • 15. An Open Elite
  • 16. Academic Laboratories and the Reproduction of Proprietary Science
  • 17. Why the Valley Went First
  • 18. Managing the Boundaries of an "Open" Project
  • Coda
  • Index of Authors
  • Index of Subjects

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