ISBN:
9781400845552
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1400845556
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1283742551
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0691148872
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9780691148670
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9780691148878
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9781283742559
,
0691148678
Language:
English
Parallel Title:
Druckausg.
Parallel Title:
Print version
DDC:
302.3/5
Keywords:
Organizational sociology.
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Organization.
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Industrial organization (Economic theory)
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Organizational sociology
;
Organization
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Industrial organization (Economic theory)
Abstract:
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 historically oriented social network analyses, John Padgett and Walter Powell develop a theory about the emergence of organizational, market, and biographical novelty from the coevolution of multiple social networks. They demonstrate that novelty arises from spillovers across intertwined networks in differ.
Abstract:
The problem of emergence / John F. Padgett and Walter W. Powell -- Autocatalysis in chemistry and the origin of life / John F. Padgett -- Economic production as chemistry II / John F. Padgett, Peter McMahan, and Xing Zhong -- From chemical to social networks / John F. Padgett -- The emergence of corporate merchant-banks in Dugento Tuscany / John F. Padgett -- Transposition and refunctionality: the birth of partnership systems in renaissance Florence / John F. Padgett -- Country as global market: Netherlands, Calvinism, and the Joint-Stock Company / John F. Padgett -- Conflict displacement and dual inclusion in the construction of Germany / Jonathan Obert and John F. Padgett -- The politics of communist economic reform: Soviet Union and China / John F. Padgett -- Deviations from design: the emergence of new financial markets and organizations in Yeltsin's Russia / Andrew Spicer -- The emergence of the Russian mobile telecom market: local technical leadership and global investors in a shadow of the state / Valery Yakubovich and Stanislav Shekshnia -- Social sequence analysis: ownership networks, political ties, and foreign investment in Hungary / David Stark and Balázs Vedres -- Chance, nécessité, et naïveté: ingredients to create a new organizational form / Walter W. Powell and Kurt Sandholtz -- Organizational and institutional genesis: the emergence of high-tech clusters in the life sciences / Walter W. Powell, Kelley Packalen, and Kjersten Whittington -- An open elite: arbiters, catalysts, or gatekeepers in the dynamics of industry evolution? / Walter W. Powell and Jason Owen-Smith -- Academic laboratories and the reproduction of proprietary science: modeling organizational rules through autocatalytic networks / Jeannette A. Colyvas and Spiro Maroulis -- Why the valley went first: aggregation and emergence in regional inventor networks / Lee Fleming [and others] -- Managing the boundaries of an "open" project / Fabrizio Ferraro and Siobhán O'Mahony -- Coda: reflections on the study of multiple networks / Walter W. Powell and John F. Padgett
Note:
Includes index
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes
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