Description
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 about the emergence of organizational, market, and biographical novelty from the coevolution of multiple social networks. They demonstrate that novelty arises from spillovers across intertwined networks in different domains. In the short run actors make relations, but in the long run relations make actors.
This theory of novelty emerging from intersecting production and biographical flows is developed through formal deductive modeling and through a wide range of original historical case studies. Padgett and Powell build on the biochemical concept of autocatalysis--the chemical definition of life--and then extend this autocatalytic reasoning to social processes of production and communication. Padgett and Powell, along with other colleagues, analyze a very wide range of cases of emergence. They look at the emergence of organizational novelty in early capitalism and state formation; they examine the transformation of communism; and they analyze with detailed network data contemporary science-based capitalism: the biotechnology industry, regional high-tech clusters, and the open s
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Chapter 3. Economic Production as Chemistry II
Chapter 3. Economic Production as Chemistry II
Chapter 4. From Chemical to Social Networks
Chapter 4. From Chemical to Social Networks
Part II: Early Capitalism and State Formation
Part II: Early Capitalism and State Formation
Chapter 5. The Emergence of Corporate Merchant-Banks in Dugento Tuscany
Chapter 5. The Emergence of Corporate Merchant-Banks in Dugento Tuscany
Chapter 6. Transposition and Refunctionality: The Birth of Partnership Systems in Renaissance Florence
Chapter 6. Transposition and Refunctionality: The Birth of Partnership Systems in Renaissance Florence
Chapter 7. Country as Global Market: Netherlands, Calvinism, and the Joint-Stock Company
Chapter 7. Country as Global Market: Netherlands, Calvinism, and the Joint-Stock Company
Chapter 8. Conflict Displacement and Dual Inclusion in the Construction of Germany
Chapter 8. Conflict Displacement and Dual Inclusion in the Construction of Germany
Part III: Communist Transitions
Part III: Communist Transitions
Chapter 9. The Politics of Communist Economic Reform: Soviet Union and China
Chapter 9. The Politics of Communist Economic Reform: Soviet Union and China
Chapter 10. Deviations from Design: The Emergence of New Financial Markets and Organizations in yeltsin's Russia
Chapter 10. Deviations from Design: The Emergence of New Financial Markets and Organizations in yeltsin's Russia
Chapter 11. The Emergence of the Russian Mobile Telecom Market: Local Technical Leadership and Global Investors in a Shadow of the State
Chapter 11. The Emergence of the Russian Mobile Telecom Market: Local Technical Leadership and Global Investors in a Shadow of the State
Chapter 12. Social Sequence Analysis: Ownership Networks, Political Ties, and Foreign Investment in Hungary
Chapter 12. Social Sequence Analysis: Ownership Networks, Political Ties, and Foreign Investment in Hungary
Part IV: Contemporary Capitalism and Science
Part IV: Contemporary Capitalism and Science
Chapter 13. Chance, Nécessité, et Naïveté: Ingredients to Create a New Organizational Form
Chapter 13. Chance, Nécessité, et Naïveté: Ingredients to Create a New Organizational Form
Chapter 14. Organizational and Institutional Genesis: The Emergenceof High-Tech Clusters in the Life Sciences
Chapter 14. Organizational and Institutional Genesis: The Emergenceof High-Tech Clusters in the Life Sciences
Chapter 15. An Open Elite: Arbiters, Catalysts, or Gatekeepers in the Dynamics of Industry Evolution?
Chapter 15. An Open Elite: Arbiters, Catalysts, or Gatekeepers in the Dynamics of Industry Evolution?
Chapter 16. Academic Laboratories and the Reproduction of Proprietary Science: Modeling Organizational Rules through Autocatalytic Networks
Chapter 16. Academic Laboratories and the Reproduction of Proprietary Science: Modeling Organizational Rules through Autocatalytic Networks
Chapter 17. Why the Valley Went First: Aggregation and Emergence in Regional Inventor Networks
Chapter 17. Why the Valley Went First: Aggregation and Emergence in Regional Inventor Networks
Chapter 18. Managing the Boundaries of an "Open" Project
Chapter 18. Managing the Boundaries of an "Open" Project
Coda: Reflections on the Study of Multiple Networks
Coda: Reflections on the Study of Multiple Networks
The Emergence of Organizations and Markets
：The Emergence of Organizations and Markets
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