The Nature of Technology: What it Is and How it Evolves

By W. Arthur. 2009

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Towards a dynamic balance between humans and automation: authority, ability, responsibility and control in shared and cooperative control situations (2012, background): “If we take arguments like in Arthur (2009) serious that technology develops a dynamics of its own, the proper balance between humans and machines is not yet decided.”
Complexity Economics: A Different Framework for Economic Thought (2013, background): “25 It would recognize that there is considerable structure to how technologies arise and enter the economy (Arthur, 2009).”
Technological regimes and the variety of innovation behaviour: Creating integrated taxonomies of firms and sectors (2010, background): “…(ii) bounded rationality (Simon, 1957, 1959, 1979)9 and myopic search within ‘rugged’ landscapes causing path dependence and lock-in to local optima (Arthur, 1994, 2009; Kaufmann, 1993; Levinthal, 1997);10 and (iii) the deliberate strive for differentiation among firms (e.g., Caves and Porter,…”
Digital innovation strategy: A framework for diagnosing and improving digital product and service innovation (2017, background): “In other words, digital technology seems to evolve out of itself, starting with a few simple hardware and software components, combined in several rounds over time into more and more sophisticated and integrated ones, forming systems of increasing complexity (Arthur, 2009).”
The Mirroring Hypothesis: Theory, Evidence and Exceptions (2016, background): “Technical systems are often combined to make larger systems as when a handset, software, and the telecommunication network are combined to create the functionality of a mobile phone (Arthur, 2009).”
The emergence of new technology-based industries: the case of fuel cells and its technological relatedness to regional knowledge bases (2016, background): “build on a new set of scientific and technical principles (Arthur, 2009), which break with”
Recombination in the open-ended value landscape of digital innovation (2018, background): “Technologies process something in order to achieve an end, and innovation as recombination therefore involved the idea of rethinking how different functions could be reintegrated in ways that create novelty (Arthur 2009; Galunic and Rodan 1998).”
Research Perspectives: The Anatomy of a Design Principle (2020, background): “• Existing formulations of design principles do not provide the means to deal with complexity such as decomposition (Arthur, 2009; Simon, 1996).”
CREATIVE COMBINATION OF REPRESENTATIONS: SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY AND TECHNOLOGICAL INVENTION (2010, unknown): “According to Arthur (2009), new technologies arise as combinations of other technologies, and he even talks about how " technologies modify themselves over their lifetime " (p. 87) and describes technology as " self-producing " (p 170).”
Research Commentary - Digital Infrastructures: The Missing IS Research Agenda (2010, background): “…has been left to other fields—to economists (network effects, information asymmetry, two-sided markets, patterns of technological change) (Arthur 2009, David 2005, and Shapiro and Varian's work) and to legal scholars (forms of information creation and distribution , intellectual property…”
Service-dominant logic 2025 (2017, methodology): “In addressing technology, Arthur (2009) speaks of “combinatorial evolution,” in claiming that no completely new technologies are ever created but, rather, are formed out of recombination of parts of existing ones.”