Much of the social science literature on institutions resembles a play that begins with the
second act, taking both plot and narrative as an accomplished fact. very little research asks …

If there is a book to which one cannot do justice in a short book review, this is it. For one
thing, this is a very long book; since each page has two columns and the font is 10 point, one …

The social sciences have sophisticated models of choice and equilibrium but little
understanding of the emergence of novelty. Where do new alternatives, new organizational …

Darwin's question about the origin of species is worth posing and exploring as much in the
social sciences as it was in biology. Human organizations, like living organisms, have …

Where do new practices and models of organization come from? of course, nothing is
entirely new, so the obvious answer is that new things trace their lineages back through …

Howard Aldrich's tour de force illustrates the potential of the evolutionary approach to
explain change within organizations, within sectors, and across sectors. His 1979 …

Economic growth is associated with market dynamics based on new products and ideas.
However, products that do not fit into the established market structure face risks, including …

Research on markets and organizations has been important in several social and
behavioral sciences, especially since the late 1960s. For several hundred years a central …

Strong paradigms are usually thought o be good things. Even though a field may be quite
differentiated, researchers in one with a strong paradigm know how the parts are tied …