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 …

Mainstream economics has changed radically since the 1980s, offering greatly enhanced
opportunities for intervention by evolutionary and institutional economics. This article …

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 …

This exciting new book from Geoffrey Hodgson is eagerly awaited by social scientists from
many different backgrounds. This book charts the rise, fall and renewal of institutional …

Micro‐foundations have become an important emerging theme in strategic management.
This paper addresses micro‐foundations in two related ways. First, we argue that the kind of …

In his classic book The Hidden Persuaders, Vance Packard claimed that large corporations
manipulated consumers, using advertising techniques. John Kenneth Galbraith and others …

The overexploitation of natural resources and the increasing number of social conflicts
following from their unsustainable use point to a wide gap between the objectives of …

The conceptualization of the relation between individual and structure is central to social
science. After making some key definitions, this paper overviews some recent developments …

Darwin himself suggested the idea of generalizing the core Darwinian principles to cover the
evolution of social entities. Also in the nineteenth century, influential social scientists …

This article looks at 20 years of applications of agent‐based models (ABMs) in sociology
and, in particular, their explanatory achievements and methodological insights. These …