Over twenty years have passed since Nelson and Winter put the concept of routines firmly at
the center of the analysis of organizational and economic change. A growing number of …

The literature on socio-technical transitions pays increasing attention to the role of
incumbent firms during transitions. These firms have been found to variably further, delay, or …

Institutions are the kinds of structures that matter most in the social realm: they make up the
stuff of social life. The increasing acknowledgement of the role of institutions in social life …

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abstract This article introduces the Special Issue and discusses the microfoundations of
routines and capabilities, including why a microfoundations view is needed and how it may …

The city as innovation machine. Regional Studies. This paper puts cities and urban regions
at the very centre of the processes of innovation and entrepreneurship. It combines the …

Organizational routines are ubiquitous, yet their contribution to organizing has been
underappreciated. Our longitudinal, inductive study traces the relationship between …

Of paramount importance to the natural sciences, the principles of Darwinism, which involve
variation, inheritance, and selection, are increasingly of interest to social scientists as well …

abstract This paper introduces a generative model of organizational routines and their
change over time. The model demonstrates that variation and selective retention of patterns …

Drawing on evolutionary epistemology, process ontology, and a social-cognition approach,
this book suggests cognitive evolution, an evolutionary-constructivist social and normative …