- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Series Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Developing Scaffolds
- 1 Reproduction and the Scaffolded Development of Hybrids
- 2 Evolution, Groups, and Scaffolded Minds
- 3 Entrenchment and Scaffolding
- II Scope and Scale
- 4 Excitable Media in Medias Res
- 5 Communication and the Evolution of Cognition
- 6 Models as Scaffolds for Understanding
- III Generativity, Entrenchment, and Boundaries
- 7 Stress in Mind
- 8 Onwards and Upwards with the Extended Mind
- 9 Scaffolding on Core Cognition
- IV Granularity and Reciprocality
- 10 Symbols as Scaffolding
- 11 Technological Scaffoldings for the Evolution of Culture and Cognition
- 12 Some Problems of Analyzing Cultural Evolution
- V Reproduction and Development
- 13 Scaffolding in Economics, Management, and the Design of Technologies
- 14 The Reproduction of the Social
- 15 Biocultural Coconstruction of Brain Plasticity across the Life Span
- 16 Footholds and Handholds
- Developing Scaffolds
- Contributors
- Index
Scaffolding in Economics, Management, and the Design of Technologies
Scaffolding in Economics, Management, and the Design of Technologies
- Chapter:
- (p.287) 13 Scaffolding in Economics, Management, and the Design of Technologies
- Source:
- Developing Scaffolds in Evolution, Culture, and Cognition
- Author(s):
Johann Peter Murmann
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
The chapter reviews ideas that have been developed to describe the emergence and change of structures in three fields: Economics, Management, and Design of Technologies. The chapter focuses on one empirical setting, the economy, and more specifically how firms, industries, and technologies change over time. Today’s industrialized economies are very different from the economies before the industrial revolution. The chapter presents key theoretical ideas from evolutionary economics, management, and technology that try to explain why and how economy has been so dramatically transformed over the past 400 years.
Keywords: evolutionary theory, birth and death of organizations, technological evolution, economic history
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Series Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Developing Scaffolds
- 1 Reproduction and the Scaffolded Development of Hybrids
- 2 Evolution, Groups, and Scaffolded Minds
- 3 Entrenchment and Scaffolding
- II Scope and Scale
- 4 Excitable Media in Medias Res
- 5 Communication and the Evolution of Cognition
- 6 Models as Scaffolds for Understanding
- III Generativity, Entrenchment, and Boundaries
- 7 Stress in Mind
- 8 Onwards and Upwards with the Extended Mind
- 9 Scaffolding on Core Cognition
- IV Granularity and Reciprocality
- 10 Symbols as Scaffolding
- 11 Technological Scaffoldings for the Evolution of Culture and Cognition
- 12 Some Problems of Analyzing Cultural Evolution
- V Reproduction and Development
- 13 Scaffolding in Economics, Management, and the Design of Technologies
- 14 The Reproduction of the Social
- 15 Biocultural Coconstruction of Brain Plasticity across the Life Span
- 16 Footholds and Handholds
- Developing Scaffolds
- Contributors
- Index
