Tobias Buchmann analyzes innovation network dynamics in the German automotive industry. The study is based on a model for analyzing the complex evolution of innovation networks and the driving mechanisms underlying network evolution derived from theoretical and empirical findings in innovation...

Unternehmensnetzwerke können dazu beitragen, auf die Umweltdynamik flexibel reagieren zu können. Allerdings sind Netzwerke nicht nur Mittel zur Bewältigung des Umweltwandels, sondern auch dessen Opfer, da sie aufgrund ihrer hohen Eigendynamik Gegenstand permanenter Veränderung sind. Die...

Introduction -- A Research Agenda -- The Role of Banks in the Schumpeterian Innovative Evolution - An Axiomatic Set-up -- Generalized Barriers to Entry and Economic Development -- Inventing Together: Exploring the Nature of International Knowledge Spillovers in Latin America -- Formal and...

This study adopts the logic of Systems Thinking and Control Systems, presenting a simple but complete theory called the Theory of Combinatory Systems. This new theory is able to describe, interpret, explain, simulate and control collective phenomena and their observable effects. Despite specific...

Why do policies and strategies often fail, and what can be done about it? How can complexity be managed in cases where it cannot be reduced? The answers to these questions are anything but trivial, and can only be found by combining insights from complexity science, system dynamics, system...

Alfred Marshall and Modern Economics re-examines Marshall's legacy and relevance to modern economic analysis with the more settled conventional wisdom concerning evolutionary processes allowing advances in economic theorising which were not possible in Marshall's life time.

This volume presents empirical studies and theoretical reflections on Evolutionary Governance Theory (EGT), its most important concepts and their interrelations. As a novel theory of governance, EGT understands governance as radically evolutionary, which implies that all elements of governance...

Alfred Marshall has traditionally been listed alongside pioneering 'neoclassical' economists. In this volume Neil Hart challenges this view, illuminating the ambiguities within Marshall's work, and exploring his reconciliation of two modes of thinking, equilibrium economics and evolutionary...