| | TABLE OF CONTENTS: Contributors ix List of Illustrations xiii List of Tables xvii Acknowledgments xix Chapter 1 The Problem of Emergence John F. Padgett and Walter W. Powell 1 Part I Autocatalysis 31 - Chapter 2 Autocatalysis in Chemistry and the Origin of Life
John F. Padgett 33 - Chapter 3 Economic Production as Chemistry II
John F. Padgett, Peter McMahan, and Xing Zhong 70 - Chapter 4 From Chemical to Social Networks
John F. Padgett 92 Part II Early Capitalism and State Formation 115 - Chapter 5 The Emergence of Corporate Merchant-Banks in Dugento Tuscany
John F. Padgett 121 - Chapter 6 Transposition and Refunctionality: The Birth of Partnership Systems in Renaissance Florence
John F. Padgett 168 - Chapter 7 Country as Global Market: Netherlands, Calvinism, and the Joint-Stock Company
John F. Padgett 208 - Chapter 8 Conflict Displacement and Dual Inclusion in the Construction of Germany
Jonathan Obert and John F. Padgett 235 Part III Communist Transitions 267 - Chapter 9 The Politics of Communist Economic Reform: Soviet Union and China
John F. Padgett 271 - Chapter 10 Deviations from Design: The Emergence of New Financial Markets and Organizations in Yeltsin's Russia
Andrew Spicer 316 - Chapter 11 The Emergence of the Russian Mobile Telecom Market: Local Technical Leadership and Global Investors in a Shadow of the State
Valery Yakubovich and Stanislav Shekshnia 334 - Chapter 12 Social Sequence Analysis: Ownership Networks, Political Ties, and Foreign Investment in Hungary
David Stark and Balázs Vedres 347 Part IV Contemporary Capitalism and Science 375 - Chapter 13 Chance, Nécessité, et Naïveté: Ingredients to Create a New Organizational Form
Walter W. Powell and Kurt Sandholtz 379 - Chapter 14 Organizational and Institutional Genesis: The Emergence of High-Tech Clusters in the Life Sciences
Walter W. Powell, Kelley Packalen, and Kjersten Whittington 434 - Chapter 15 An Open Elite: Arbiters, Catalysts, or Gatekeepers in the Dynamics of Industry Evolution?
Walter W. Powell and Jason Owen-Smith 466 - Chapter 16 Academic Laboratories and the Reproduction of Proprietary Science: Modeling Organizational Rules through Autocatalytic Networks
Jeannette A. Colyvas and Spiro Maroulis 496 - Chapter 17 Why the Valley Went First: Aggregation and Emergence in Regional Inventor Networks
Lee Fleming, Lyra Colfer, Alexandra Marin, and Jonathan McPhie 520 - Chapter 18 Managing the Boundaries of an "Open" Project
Fabrizio Ferraro and Siobhán O'Mahony 545 - Coda: Reflections on the Study of Multiple Networks
Walter W. Powell and John F. Padgett 566 Index of Authors 571 Index of Subjects 573 Return to Book Description File created: 4/25/2013 |