Evolutionary Economics and Path Dependence

Edited by Lars Magnusson, Professor of Economic History and Jan Ottosson, Associate Professor, Department of Economic History, Uppsala University, Sweden

• Contents: 1. IntroductionL. Magnusson and J. Ottosson2. Mechanisms of Evolutionary Change in Economic Governance: Interaction, Interpretation and BricolageJ.L. Campbell3. Theory of the Firm Revisited: New and Neo-institutional Perspectives J. Groenewegen and J. Vromen4. Path-dependence of Knowledge: Implications for the Theory of the FirmB. Nooteboom5. Strategic Lock-in as a Human Issue: The Role of Professional OrientationM. Dietrich6. The Microfoundations of Path-dependencyS. Rizzello7. Paths in Time and Space – Path-Dependence in Industrial NetworksH. Hakansson and A. Lundgren8. The Making of National Telephone Networks in Scandinavia. The State and the Emergence of National Regulatory Patterns 1880–1920L. Andersson-Skog9. Institutions as Determinants of Institutional Change – Case Studies in the Field of EEC Transport PolicyJ. Bergdahl and J.L. Östlund10. Institutional Change and European Air Transport, 1910–1985P.J. Lyth11. Path Dependence and Institutional Evolution – The Case of the Nationalisation of Private Railroads in Interwar SwedenJ. OttossonReferences Index