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2013 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

9. Evolution and Learning in Organizations

Author : Kaj U. Koskinen

Published in: Knowledge Production in Organizations

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

Evolutionary theories are a class of theories, models, or arguments that explain how firms evolve and why successful firms differ from each other. They explain the generations and renewal of variation by random elements and winnowing. Internal forces provide continuity to whatever survives the winnowing. Many of the economic evolutionary theories assume that individual learning, organizational adaptation, and environmental selection of organizations are going on at the same time (Nelson and Winter 1982; Nelson 1994, 1995).

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Metadata
Title
Evolution and Learning in Organizations
Author
Kaj U. Koskinen
Copyright Year
2013
Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Book
Knowledge Production in Organizations

Print ISBN: 978-3-319-00103-6

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-00104-3

Copyright Year: 2013

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-00104-3_9

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