“Generalized Darwinism” and the quest for an evolutionary theory of policy-making

Schubert, Christian

doi:10.1007/s00191-013-0304-x

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“…The concept of "age" when pertaining to social constructs, such as firms, may seem as odd as asking "how tall is the firm". It is an example of what Coad (2017) refers to as an anthropomorphic analogy, and as with Darwinian evolution it may be discussed at length how apt the analogy is for economics (Schubert, 2014;Pelikan, 2011Aldrich et al, 2008. There are both practical and philosophical reasons why the analogy is not useful, and "age" should instead be understood as meaning something quite different in relation to a firm than in biology, just as "size" means something very different too.…”

Section: Epistemological Considerationsmentioning

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Firm age and performance

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International audienceAmid increasing interest in firm age and its effects on firm performance, this special issue offers an exhaustive review of the literature and a novel collection of evidence on the effects of firm age on performance, including a special focus of interest on innovation performance, financial performance, exports, survival and growth. This editorial positions the theme in the extant literature, and provides key definitions and challenges ahead in the field of evolutionary economics. It introduces the collection of articles composing the special issue. The papers offer a diversity of country contexts, as well as analytical approaches and methods. They include an exhaustive review of the literature on age and firms’ performance, and present original empirical studies focusing on the effects of age on firms’ economic outcomes on the one hand, and on innovation outcomes on the other hand. While most of the papers use econometric analysis, the level of analysis ranges from firm to individual

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“…Nesse sentido, autores como Thorbjon Knudsen e Geoffrey Hodgson formataram uma meta teoria baseada no darwinismo generalizado para explicar as mudanças econômicas a partir dos elementos variação, seleção e retenção (Schumbert, 2014). Para esses autores, toda a ciência social deve focar seus estudos nas explanações causais do realismo sociocultural.…”

Section: A Teoria Da Economia Evolucionáriaunclassified

“…As rotinas, a partir dos preceitos do Darwinismo Generalizado, representados pelos elementos de variação, seleção e retenção, carregam informações para soluções de determinados problemas adaptativos do ambiente, sendo responsáveis por reter, transferir ou copiar normas sociais, justificando por que determinadas organizações prosperam e tornam-se mais produtivas (Schumbert, 2014). Para Hodgson e Knudsen (2004), as rotinas são replicadoras que carregam informações que podem criar novas entidades e as organizações, por sua vez, como grupos sociais e instituições são interagentes.…”

Section: As Rotinas E a Teoria Evolucionáriaunclassified

Rotinas Evolucionárias: Identificação De Um Framework a Partir Do Resgate Do Individualismo Metodológico, Do Path Dependence E Da Memória Organizacional

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Dorion

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O objetivo deste ensaio teórico é a composição de um framework para o estudo das rotinas evolucionárias, decorrentes de inferência relacionadas a memória organizacional, path dependence e individualismo metodológico. O framework adota a lógica do individualismo metodológico (1), individualismo metodológico interacionista (2), método analítico compositivo-genético causal (3) e microeconomia sistêmica (4). Na segunda inferência tem-se além da aprendizagem a possibilidade de atenuação do conceito de irreversibilidade do path dependence. Na inferência em prol da mudança, tem-se no individualismo metodológico interacionista (2) os agentes dotados de seus repertórios interagindo na seleção e retenção por meio de suas memórias transativas, proporcionando assim a ligação entre os repertórios individuais e a rotina contribuindo com o sistema generativo do construto. Como elementos limitantes do estudo tem-se a necessidade de ampliar conceitos da gestão sistêmica e auto-organização no contexto da economia evolucionária. Contudo, estudos empíricos podem ser desenvolvidos tomando por base esse framework.

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“…An evolutionary theory of the production of action (Muñoz and Encinar 2014a, b) raises several issues concerning rationality (Schütz 1943), well-being and economic policy (Schubert 2012(Schubert , 2014Pelikan 2003), the economy as a complex evolving system (Arthur 2015), the emergence of novelty (Witt 2009a, b) and economic change as the fundamental economic problem (Nelson 2017), and the role of expectations (Koppl 2002), which links purposeful action to actual action. In this paper, we focus on defining efficiency in this particular evolutionary context.…”

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Some elements for a definition of an evolutionary efficiency criterion

Pérez

Encinar

2019

J Evol Econ

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Together with the concepts of equilibrium, scarcity, choosing, etc., efficiency is at the core of economics. However, in an evolutionary context, efficiency raises several issues concerning to rationality, the complex evolving nature of the economy, economic change as the fundamental economic problem, and the role of expectations -that link purposeful action to actual action. The main goal of this paper is to provide some necessary elements to accommodate an efficiency criterion within an evolutionary theory of the production of action. In a nutshell, an evolving complex system could be considered as being (or "becoming") efficient if the agents' intentions could "materialize" in actions that would give rise to real states of affairs which, essentially, were compatible (even similar; never identical of course) with what it was expected (ex-ante) when the action "plans" were elaborated and selected. We set out this criterion as a micro-criterion and then we explore an extension of it at a systemic level using the theory of meso-level connections.

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“Generalized Darwinism” and the quest for an evolutionary theory of policy-making

Cited by 18 publications

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Firm age and performance

Firm age and performance

Rotinas Evolucionárias: Identificação De Um Framework a Partir Do Resgate Do Individualismo Metodológico, Do Path Dependence E Da Memória Organizacional

Some elements for a definition of an evolutionary efficiency criterion

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