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| April, 2, 2025: Growth of Products and Services |
Peter Murmann writes: For two decades I wanted to get a good estimate of how the number of distinct products have grown in the economy. Once I thought I could simply use bar codes that have been attached to products for over decades but that tack proved a dead end.… |
J. P. Murmann |
04/02/25 |
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| January 28, 2025: Richard Nelson died |
We are sad to announce that Richard R. Nelson has passed away. Here is an obituary that the International Schumpeter Society sent out. |
J. P. Murmann |
02/03/25 |
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| May 24,2 2024: Very low chance firms to survive as independent entity |
One out of 22,222 firms listed on the stock market will survive as an independent entity for 100 years. Most firms (45%) disappear from the stock market because of mergers or acquisitions. Source: Daepp, M.I.G., Hamilton, M.J., West, G.B., Bettencourt, L.M.A. (2015) The mortality of companies. Journal of The Royal… |
J. P. Murmann |
05/24/24 |
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| June 25, 2021: Nelson and Winter in Top 100 Economists |
Richard Nelson and Sidney Winter have been listed by the French Magazine Sciences Humaines among to top 100 economists of all time. You can read here (in French) how the magazine portrays Nelson and Winter’s intellectual contributions. Nelson and Winter’s Ideas. English translation |
J. P. Murmann |
06/25/21 |
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| June 16, 2017: Oxford business history course |
Chris McKenna has shot a beautiful 5-min video introducing students what they will learn in a business history he runs at Oxford using Oxford and its environment as the material to be studied in the course. The chief assignment is to write a case that later can be used in… |
J. P. Murmann |
06/16/17 |
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| May 20, 2017: Sid Winter interview on new book “Innovation and the Evolution of Industries” |
Sid Winter talks with Knowledge@Wharton about his new book on “history friendly evolutionary models”, which he co-authored with Franco Malerba, Richard Nelson, and Luigo Orsenigo. The book deals with the interactions between innovation and industry evolution. Winter gives a quick introduction to evolutionary economics and the scientific value of history-friendly… |
J. P. Murmann |
05/21/17 |
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| April 4, 2017: The American Corporation |
Two important books on the American corporation have been written by Gerald Davis and Mark Mizruchi. They are reviewed by a very thoughtful essay by Braydon King in Contemporary Sociology and by Bruce Kogut in a shorter piece in ASQ. |
J. P. Murmann |
04/04/17 |
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| February 17, 2017: MOR Special Issue on ‘The Innovation and Entrepreneurship Eco-system in India’ |
This Management of Organization Review (MOR) special issue (edited by Suresh Bhagavatula, Ram Mudambi and Johann Peter Murmann) aims to explore the key features of the innovation and entrepreneurship eco-system in India. The objective of this Management and Organization Review (MOR) special issue is to explore the many dimensions of… |
J. P. Murmann |
02/19/17 |
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| January 31, 2016: The Rise and Fall of American Growth by Robert Gordon |
Robert Gordon has written an important new book in which is spells out his detailed arguments why he expects American economic growth never to reach the levels achieved before 1970. Here are links to useful reviews of the book: 1. Economist 2. Paul Krugman in NY Times Magzine |
J. P. Murmann |
01/30/16 |
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| Jan 20, 2016: 2nd MOR Frontier’s conference: Call for Proposals |
Building on the success of the first conference in Honk Kong, Management and Organization Review(MOR) will hold the 2nd frontier’s conference in Peking,China, October 5–7, 2016, and in Banglore, India, October 13–15, 2016. The theme of the conference is “The SME Ecology of Transforming Economies: Knowledge Creation, Entrepreneurship, Innovation and… |
J. P. Murmann |
01/19/16 |
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| January 15, 2016: Call for Papers “Managing in the Age of Disruption” |
The Journal of Management is calling for contributions to a special issue on “Managing in the Age of Disruption” The editors are Shahzad (Shaz) Ansari, University of Cambridge, UK Raghu Garud, Pennsylvania State University, USA Arun Kumaraswamy, West Chester University of Pennsylvania, USA. Deadline for Submission: 16. December 2016. Details |
J. P. Murmann |
01/14/16 |
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| August 24, 2015: Nathan Rosenberg Obituary by Joel Mokyr |
The economic history profession has lost one of its most original, creative, and wide-ranging minds in the passing of Nathan Rosenberg on Aug. 24, 2015. Rosenberg was one of the founding fathers of Cliometrics, a member of the first group of Cliometricians that with coining the term “congregated at Purdue… |
J. P. Murmann |
09/08/15 |
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| China’s Path to Innovation |
China's economic development is one of the great stories of our time. Today (July 28, 2015) we are starting our special focus on China with a review new book on the development of China's innovative capacity. China's Path to Innovation written by the Oxford Professor Xiaolan Fu. Although a new… |
J. P. Murmann |
07/27/15 |
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| July 12, 2015 Special Issue on Deepening Links between Business History and Evolutionary Economics |
We reported earlier on a conference bringing together business historians and evolutionary economic in Dublin. A set of papers that have grown out of the conference are not appearing as a special issue in the journal “Business History.” The contributors are: Michael Jacobides, Franco Malerba & Luigi Orsenigo, Johann Peter… |
J. P. Murmann |
07/12/15 |
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| May 23, 2015. Sid Winter wins Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research |
Sid Winter just won the 2015 Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research for “his deep empirical understanding of Schumpeterian processes of dynamic competition, generation of differential technological opportunities through appropriability conditions and the mechanisms driving dynamic capabilities in firms.” Full story. New: Winter’s Prize Lecture now available for download. |
J. P. Murmann |
05/21/15 |
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| MOR Frontiers Conference |
This is the first frontiers conference of the Management Organization Review. |
J. P. Murmann |
05/17/14 |
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| 15th International Joseph Schumpeter Conference |
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04/19/14 |
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| Feb 18, 2014: Inaugural MOR Frontiers Conference in Hong Kong |
Management Organization Review has a new editor: Arie Lewin. Professor Lewin has many plans for taking the journal to the next level. One of them is to hold an annual conference to explore new ideas. MOR will hold its first Frontiers Conference “Globalization of Knowledge Creation and Innovation in the… |
J. P. Murmann |
02/17/14 |
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| June 20, 2013: Steve Klepper in Memoriam |
We are all very sad that Steve passed away (See CMU obituary). Seven Klepper supported one of the senior scholars supporting the creation of economic-eovlution.net from the very beginning. On March 23, there was at event as part of the 20th anniversary of the CCC to honor Steve. He was… |
J. P. Murmann |
06/20/13 |
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| May 29, 2013: Announcing “Letters from China” |
Your editor is traveling to China. The goal of the visit is to get a deeper understanding of what the future of China will likely look like. More specifically, the purpose is to become more knowledgeable about whether China will become the world leader in high-tech industries and if so… |
J. P. Murmann |
05/29/13 |
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| Innovation for Growth Blog by Tim Kasatelle |
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J. P. Murmann |
05/24/13 |
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| Innovation Studies 101 |
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02/12/13 |
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| New Maddison Historical Dataset of Country GDPs, Year 1 until 2010. |
Agnus Maddison, Jutta Bolt and Jan Luiten van Zanden |
J. P. Murmann |
01/27/13 |
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| Jan 22, 2013: Emerging Scholar Workshop: Evolutionary Perspectives on Strategic Management |
The Mack Center for Technological Innovation at the Wharton School will put on for the 2nd time a new week-long workshop for emerging scholars in the field. The workshop is designed for scholars ranging from students who are completing the second year of doctoral studies to those who have recently… |
J. P. Murmann |
01/21/13 |
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| September 8, 2012: History and Strategy |
The new volume of “Advances in Strategic Management” entitled “History and Strategy” is focused on bringing about stronger integration of history in strategy research. Edited by Steven Kahl, Brian Silverman, and Michael Cusumano, the book contains 10 articles that sketch how this deeper integration could come about. If you university… |
J. P. Murmann |
09/08/12 |
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| May 15, 2012: Perspectives and Reflections on Nelson & Winter (1982) |
The 9th Atlanta Competitive Advantage Conference had a panel to celebrate the publication of Nelson and Winter’s 1982 landmark book. The panel included Sid Winter, Connie Helfat, L.G.Thomas III, and Johann Peter Murmann. The slides from the panelists are here: Helfat’s Presentation Slides Murmann’s Presentation Slides Thomas’s Presentation Slides From… |
J. P. Murmann |
05/17/12 |
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| March 26, 2012: New Work on Coevolution |
Johann Peter Murmann has published an inductive case study entitled Coevolution of Industries and Important Features of Their Environments. Using a comparative historical method and drawing on evidence from five countries over a 60-year period, this paper spells out how coevolutionary processes work in shaping the evolution of industries and… |
J. P. Murmann |
03/25/12 |
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| Jan 26, 2012 Emerging Scholar Workshop: Evolutionary Perspectives on Strategic Management |
The Mack Center for Technological Innovation at the Wharton School will put on a new week-long workshop for emerging scholars in the field. The workshop is designed for scholars ranging from students who are completing the second year of doctoral studies to those who have recently completed a doctorate. Participants… |
J. P. Murmann |
01/27/12 |
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| Nov 14, 2011: Steve Jobs and Bill Gates retell the history of the PC industy |
In 2007, Steve Jobs and Bill Gates appeared for a joint interview at the Wall Street Journal “All Things Digital Conference.” The provide fascinating insights into the strategic thought of tow chief protagonists of the PC revolution in computing. Watch them here. |
J. P. Murmann |
11/24/11 |
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| August 20, 2011 |
Evolutionists predict that firm failures rates are high. I have reported failure rates ranging from 61 to 88% for the synthetic dye industry in different countries (Murmann & Homburg, 2001). 75% percent of all new ventures are often reported without reference to the underlying data. Here is some data on… |
J. P. Murmann |
08/09/11 |
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| Successful Entrepreneurs are Not Risk Takers: Toward a Theory of Entrepreneurial Decision Making |
entrepreneurial decision making, entrepreneurial risk-taking, performance, new ventures, theory |
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07/10/11 |
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| December 28, 2010 |
The product development at Saturday Night Life is perfectly consistent with the evolutionary predictions: Through out the week, that writing team comes up with about 800 jokes. On Friday night, they sit together and whittle it all the way down to the 100 jokes they like best, and out of… |
J. P. Murmann |
12/28/10 |
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| August 28, 2010 |
Chris Freeman, one of the great scholars of the economics of science and technology, has died. Read the remembrances of colleagues, students and readers here. Luc Soete’s, for example, writes: Over those fifty or so last years Chris influenced thousands of researchers, policy makers and students across the world in… |
J. P. Murmann |
08/28/10 |
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| Organizations and Markets |
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07/20/10 |
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| July 17, 2010 |
Edge.org published a stimulating interview with W. Brian Arthur on his new book, The Nature of Technology. After autobiographical comments that may not interest all readers, Arthur gives an overview how the economy evolves as a consequence of postiive and negative feedback mechanism. He then moves on to this idea… |
J. P. Murmann |
07/17/10 |
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| June 5, 2010 |
The full program of the Schumpeter Society Meeting in Aalborg, Denkmark is now posted. Update June 22: Full papers of conferene are available here. Photos from the Conference are now up. Gallery 1 Gallery 2 |
J. P. Murmann |
06/06/10 |
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| May 2, 2010 |
Agnus Maddison died. What economic historian has not relied on his historical GDP time series? Read the informative obituary in the Economist. |
J. P. Murmann |
05/02/10 |
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| March 26, 2010 |
A workshop bringing together Business Historians and Evolutionary Economists is taking place at Trinity College in Dublin. Oveview information on the workshop and the presentation sldies have been posted in the discussion forum. |
J. P. Murmann |
03/27/10 |
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| Introducing Economic Evolution Net |
For a number of years, we have planned a complementary website to Evolutionary Theories in the Social Sciences that would serve as a central resource and meeting place for people who interested in empirical research on economic change. The English language features of Economic-Evolution.Net are now fully implemented. We recently… |
J. P. Murmann |
03/26/10 |
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| November 15, 2009 |
Richard Nelson gave an interview in June 2002 to Margherita Fronte that still makes a good read today. In the interview, he explains why he developed evolutionary economics, discusses the relationship between science and technolgy, and takes a stand on what kinds of inventions should be patentable. Click on Read… |
J. P. Murmann |
11/13/09 |
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| Industry Studies Organization |
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11/11/09 |
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| August 30, 2009 |
Telock does us the service of giving a close reading of three books that what to overcome the obstacle that Yogi Berra identified in his qib: “Prediction is very hard, especially about the future.” The Fat Tail: The Power of Political Knowledge for Strategic Investing by Ian Bremmer and Preston… |
J. P. Murmann |
08/30/09 |
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| January 18, 2009 |
The Economist describes how the current strength of the the jet engine business come about. An understanding of the firm’s success requires some understanding of the technology that goes into its civil-aircraft engines. This is not just Rolls-Royce’s biggest business, it is also the one that both felled the company… |
J. P. Murmann |
01/17/09 |
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| April 20, 2008 |
A symposium on the Varieties of Knowledge in the Economy with Carliss Baldwin, Richard Langois, Johann Peter Murmann and Richard Nelson will take place at the Schumpeter Conference in Brazil. More Details. |
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04/18/08 |
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| July 15, 2007 |
Robert Solow reviews Thomas K. Mccraw’s new biography of Joseph Schumpeter in the New Republic. Read the review of Prophet of Innovation: Joseph Schumpeter and Creative Destruction. Richard Langlois has also published a very useful review on EH.net. |
J. P. Murmann |
07/15/07 |
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| Historial Statistics of the United States - Online |
Susan Carter, Scott Gartner, Michael Haines, Alan Olmstead, Richard Sutch, and Gavin Wright (Editors) |
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| Tell a Friend About Economic-Evolution.net |
Click the link below to send a link to a friend. |
J. P. Murmann |
11/27/06 |
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| Index of Central Bank Independence, 1989-2000 |
Simone Polillo and Mauro F. Guill?©n |
J. P. Murmann |
10/26/06 |
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| Indicators of Globalization, 1980-2004 |
Mauro Guillen |
J. P. Murmann |
10/26/06 |
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| Instructions for Using the EE.net Biobliography |
1. Browsing 2. Adding Records 3. Adding Notes 4. Exporting For more information on how to use the bibliography powered by Refbase, see the Refbase User Guide |
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08/26/06 |
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