The Emergence of Organizations and Markets

by Walter W. Powell and John F. Padgett

Book Overview

A dynamic framework for studying social emergence

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691148872
• ISBN13: 9780691148878
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 608 Pages
• Weight: 3.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.9" x 9.9"