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22%OFFJohn F. Padgett - The Emergence of Organizations and Markets - 9780691148878 - V9780691148878
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The Emergence of Organizations and Markets

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Description for The Emergence of Organizations and Markets Paperback. Where do new alternatives, new organizational forms, and types of people come from? Combining biochemical insights about the origin of life with innovative and historically oriented social network analyses, this book develops a theory about the emergence of organizational, and biographical novelty from the coevolution of multiple social networks. Num Pages: 608 pages, 142 color illus. 46 tables. BIC Classification: JHBL; JPA; KC; KJU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 178 x 254 x 33. Weight in Grams: 1484.
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. ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Princeton University Press
Number of pages
608
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Weight
1439g
Number of Pages
608
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691148878
SKU
V9780691148878
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About John F. Padgett
John F. Padgett is professor of political science and (by courtesy) professor of sociology and history at the University of Chicago. Walter W. Powell is professor of education and (by courtesy) professor of sociology, organizational behavior, management science, communication, and public policy at Stanford University.

Reviews for The Emergence of Organizations and Markets
"[Padgett and Powell] see the 'percolation of perturbations' through complex networks as the next research frontier in the program of study that they propose, and they hope their initial forays in The Emergence of Organizations and Markets will inspire readers across the sciences to pick up the torch. If that happens, this theoretically innovative contribution to social science will have ... Read more

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