TABLE OF CONTENTS:
Contributors ix
List of Illustrations xiii
List of Tables xvii
Acknowledgments xix
Chapter 1 The Problem of Emergence
John F. Padgett and Walter W. Powell 1
Part I Autocatalysis 31
Chapter 2 Autocatalysis in Chemistry and the Origin of Life
John F. Padgett 33
Chapter 3 Economic Production as Chemistry II
John F. Padgett, Peter McMahan, and Xing Zhong 70
Chapter 4 From Chemical to Social Networks
John F. Padgett 92
Part II Early Capitalism and State Formation 115
Chapter 5 The Emergence of Corporate Merchant-Banks in Dugento Tuscany
John F. Padgett 121
Chapter 6 Transposition and Refunctionality: The Birth of Partnership Systems in Renaissance Florence
John F. Padgett 168
Chapter 7 Country as Global Market: Netherlands, Calvinism, and the Joint-Stock Company
John F. Padgett 208
Chapter 8 Conflict Displacement and Dual Inclusion in the Construction of Germany
Jonathan Obert and John F. Padgett 235
Part III Communist Transitions 267
Chapter 9 The Politics of Communist Economic Reform: Soviet Union and China
John F. Padgett 271
Chapter 10 Deviations from Design: The Emergence of New Financial Markets and Organizations in Yeltsin's Russia
Andrew Spicer 316
Chapter 11 The Emergence of the Russian Mobile Telecom Market: Local Technical Leadership and Global Investors in a Shadow of the State
Valery Yakubovich and Stanislav Shekshnia 334
Chapter 12 Social Sequence Analysis: Ownership Networks, Political Ties, and Foreign Investment in Hungary
David Stark and Balázs Vedres 347
Part IV Contemporary Capitalism and Science 375
Chapter 13 Chance, Nécessité, et Naïveté: Ingredients to Create a New Organizational Form
Walter W. Powell and Kurt Sandholtz 379
Chapter 14 Organizational and Institutional Genesis: The Emergence of High-Tech Clusters in the Life Sciences
Walter W. Powell, Kelley Packalen, and Kjersten Whittington 434
Chapter 15 An Open Elite: Arbiters, Catalysts, or Gatekeepers in the Dynamics of Industry Evolution?
Walter W. Powell and Jason Owen-Smith 466
Chapter 16 Academic Laboratories and the Reproduction of Proprietary Science: Modeling Organizational Rules through Autocatalytic Networks
Jeannette A. Colyvas and Spiro Maroulis 496
Chapter 17 Why the Valley Went First: Aggregation and Emergence in Regional Inventor Networks
Lee Fleming, Lyra Colfer, Alexandra Marin, and Jonathan McPhie 520
Chapter 18 Managing the Boundaries of an "Open" Project
Fabrizio Ferraro and Siobhán O'Mahony 545
Coda: Reflections on the Study of Multiple Networks
Walter W. Powell and John F. Padgett 566
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