Understanding industrial and corporate change

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INTRODUCTION; PART I: ECONOMIC BEHAVIORS AND ORGANIZATIONAL FORMS; COSTLY AND BOUNDED RATIONALITY IN INDIVIDUAL AND TEAM DECISION-MAKING; INCENTIVES, ROUTINES, AND SELF-COMMAND; ROUTINES AND OTHER RECURRING ACTION PATTERNS OF ORGANIZATIONS: CONTEMPORARY RESEARCH ISSUES; HIERARCHIES, MARKETS AND POWER IN THE ECONOMY: AN ECONOMIC PERSPECTIVE; THE EVOLUTION OF ORGANIZATIONAL CONVENTIONS AND GAINS FROM DIVERSITY; INFORMATION, FINANCE, AND MARKETS; PART II: KNOWLEDGE, ORGANIZATIONS, AND TECHNOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; THE EXPLICIT ECONOMICS OF KNOWLEDGE CODIFICATION AND TACITNESS. THE SLOW PACE OF RAPID TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE: GRADUALISM AND PUNCTUATION IN TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGETECHNOLOGIES, PRODUCTS AND ORGANIZATION IN THE INNOVATING FIRM: WHAT ADAM SMITH TELLS US AND JOSEPH SCHUMPETER DOESN'T; ECONOMIC EXPERIMENTS; HEROES, HERDS AND HYSTERESIS IN TECHNOLOGICAL HISTORY: THOMAS EDISON AND 'THE BATTLE OF THE SYSTEMS' RECONSIDERED; PATENTS AND WELFARE IN AN EVOLUTIONARY MODEL; CORPORATE STRATEGY, STRUCTURE AND CONTROL METHODS IN THE UNITED STATES DURING THE 20TH CENTURY; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y