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Notes on contributors

Preface

Introduction: Institutions and economic change

Bjorn Johnson

Klaus Nielsen

PART I PROSPECTS FOR EVOLUTIONARY AND INSTITUTIONAL THEORY

1 The institutional embeddedness of economic change: an appraisal of the `evolutionary' and `regulationist' research programmes

Benjamin Coriat

Giovanni Dosi

2 The learning economy: challenges to economic theory and policy

Bengt-Ake Lundvall

PART II INNOVATION AND TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT

3 The evolutionary approach to technological change: a framework for microeconomic analysis

Luis E. Arjona Bejar

4 The glocalization of technology

Marc Humbert

5 Technological performance and variety: the case of the German electronics industry

Uwe Cantner

Horst Hanusch

Georg Westermann

6 High R&D intensity without high tech products: a Swedish paradox?

Charles Edquist

Maureen Mckelvey

PART III THE THEORY OF THE FIRM AND RELATIONS BETWEEN FIRMS

7 Black boxes, grey boxes: the scope of contracts in the theory of the firm

Margherita Turvani

8 Governance of transactions: a strategic process model

Bart Nooteboom

9 Schumpeterian banker-entrepreneur interaction and the spontaneous evolution of bank-industry networks: why institutional endowments matter

Thomas Marmefelt

PART IV MARKETS, ECONOMIC SYSTEMS AND THE ROLE OF MORAL NORMS

10 Varieties of capitalism and varieties of economic theory

Geoffrey M. Hodgson

11 Financial markets and economic development: myth and institutional reality

Jan A. Kregel

12 Moral standards and transaction costs: long-term effects

Michael Yaffey

Index