Networks play an important role in a wide range of economic phenomena. Despite this fact,
standard economic theory rarely considers economic networks explicitly in its analysis …

Features recent trends and advances in the theory and techniques used to accurately
measure and model growth Growth Curve Modeling: Theory and Applications features an …

We propose that random variation should be considered one of the most important
explanatory mechanisms in the management sciences. There are good theoretical reasons …

We analyze the dynamic properties of 107 words recorded in English, Spanish and Hebrew
over the period 1800–2008 in order to gain insight into the coevolution of language and …

Applied research on growth and innovation would seem to suggest that successful
innovations do not enhance firm expansion significantly. This article tests the hypothesis that …

A big data set can often be illustrated by the nodes and edges of a big network. A large
volume of data is generally produced by the stock market, and complex networks can be …

Initially conceived for entertainment, social media platforms have profoundly transformed the
dissemination of information and consequently reshaped the dynamics of agenda-setting. In …

We provide a survey of the main mechanisms of market selection used in economics. We
categorize existing theories into three broad classes—evolutionary selection, reduced form …

The chapter reviews the literature concerning agent-based labor market models by tracing
its roots to the microsimulation literature and surveying a selection of con-tributions made …

The prediction-control (PC) space offers a theoretical framework for the entrepreneurial
method and shows how it can foster the development of a middle class of business, defined …