The firm as an interactor: firms as vehicles for habits and routines

By Geoffrey M. Hodgson, Thorbjørn Knudsen. 2004

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science

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The endogenous origins of experience, routines, and organizational capabilities: the poverty of stimulus (2010, background): “4 The relatively recent notion of routines as ‘dispositions’ (Hodgson, 2003; Hodgson and Knudsen, 2004) may not cleanly fit into an empiricist conception of routines.”
Navigators through the storm: A review of organization theories and the behavior of incumbent firms during transitions (2017, background): “They do this by selecting routines on the basis of their perceived efficacy (Hodgson and Knudsen, 2004).”
Entrepreneurship, Evolution and Geography (2009, background): “In evolutionary economics the variance in the performance of firms is explained by heterogeneity in routines (Nelson and Winter 1982; Hodgson and Knudsen 2004).3 Routines can be understood as organizational skills, which cannot be reduced to the sum of individual skills, i.e. they are a collective…”
Darwinism in economics: from analogy to continuity (2006, background): “that a “… replicator/interactor distinction is possibly such a general feature common to both social and biological systems” (Knudsen 2004, p. 157; see also Hodgson and Knudsen 2004 ).”
Microfoundations of Routines and Capabilities: Individuals, Processes, and Structure (2012, methodology): “In addition, other work uses an agent-based simulation approach to study the formation of traffic conventions (which side of the road to drive on) when agents follow habits (Hodgson and Knudsen, 2004).”
Why We Need a Generalized Darwinism, And Why Generalized Darwinism is Not Enough (2006, background): “Note also the related treatments of firms and routines by Nelson and Winter (1982) and Hodgson and Knudsen (2004) .”
A framework for applying organizational routines in empirical research: linking antecedents, characteristics and performance outcomes of recurrent interaction patterns (2005, background): “(iii) Recently, a third interpretation of routines as dispositions has been proposed (Hodgson, 2003; Hodgson and Knudsen, 2003, 2004a, b). Rather than as behavior, these authors see routines as dispositions to express a certain behavior or thought (Hodgson, 2003; Hodgson and Knudsen 2003, 2004a, b”
The city as innovation machine (2017, background): “New industries owe their spatial pattern to specific firms’ behaviors, which are assumed to have a spatial inertia (Dosi, 1997; Essletzbichler and Rigby, 2007; Frenken et al., 2007; Hodgson and Knudsen, 2004).”
Exploring evolutionary economic geographies (2007, background): “As long as economic agents are boundedly rational and as long as some form of inertia exists that enables differences in behavior to persist, forces of selection will operate and economic evolution will run its course (Simon, 1957; Hodgson, 2001a, 2001b; Hodgson and Knudsen, 2004).”
In defence of generalized Darwinism (2008, background): “Some theorists have suggested enhancements of this definition (Hodgson and Knudsen 2004b).”
What is specific about evolutionary economics? (2008, background): “Up to now, not enough concrete research has been done in economics on the basis of Universal Darwinism (see, however, Hodgson and Knudsen 2004).”
Can Darwinism be “Generalized” and of what use would this be? (2011, background): “For example, the biological notions of genotype and phenotype are transformed into an abstract “replicator–interactor” dichotomy which is then suggested as a general analytic tool in evolutionary theories (Hull 1988; Hodgson and Knudsen 2004, 2006b ).”
The co-evolutionary relationship between Energy Service Companies and the UK energy system: Implications for a low-carbon transition (2013, background): “…it is expected that the ESCo population will remain heterogeneous, partly because replication of business models is normally imperfect (Murmann, 2003), either due to accident, experiment or design (Hodgson and Knudsen, 2004), serving to introduce additional variation to the population.”