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

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2012]Copyright date: ©2013Edition: Core TextbookDescription: 1 online resource (608 p.) : 142 color illus. 46 tablesContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780691148670
  • 9781400845552
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 302.35 23
LOC classification:
  • HM786 .E44 2017
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
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
Summary: 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 different domains. In the short run actors make relations, but in the long run relations make actors. This theory of novelty emerging from intersecting production and biographical flows is developed through formal deductive modeling and through a wide range of original historical case studies. Padgett and Powell build on the biochemical concept of autocatalysis--the chemical definition of life--and then extend this autocatalytic reasoning to social processes of production and communication. Padgett and Powell, along with other colleagues, analyze a very wide range of cases of emergence. They look at the emergence of organizational novelty in early capitalism and state formation; they examine the transformation of communism; and they analyze with detailed network data contemporary science-based capitalism: the biotechnology industry, regional high-tech clusters, and the open source community.
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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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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 different domains. In the short run actors make relations, but in the long run relations make actors. This theory of novelty emerging from intersecting production and biographical flows is developed through formal deductive modeling and through a wide range of original historical case studies. Padgett and Powell build on the biochemical concept of autocatalysis--the chemical definition of life--and then extend this autocatalytic reasoning to social processes of production and communication. Padgett and Powell, along with other colleagues, analyze a very wide range of cases of emergence. They look at the emergence of organizational novelty in early capitalism and state formation; they examine the transformation of communism; and they analyze with detailed network data contemporary science-based capitalism: the biotechnology industry, regional high-tech clusters, and the open source community.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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