Bibliography+-+Evolution

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=CORE READINGS=


 * 1) Gort, M. and S. Klepper (1982), “Time paths in the diffusion of product innovations,” //Economic Journal//, 92: 630-53
 * 2) Klepper, S. (1996), “Entry, exit, growth, and innovation over the product life cycle,” //American Economic Review//, 86: 562-583.
 * 3) Hannan, M.T., G.R. Carroll, E.A. Dundan and J.C. Torres (1995), “Organizational evolution in a multinational context: Entries of automobile manufacturers in Belgium, Britain, France, Germany, and Italy,” //American Sociological Review//, 60: 509-528.
 * 4) Thompson, P. (2005), “Selection and firm survival: Evidence from the shipbuilding industry, 1825-1914,” //Review of Economics and Statistics//, 87(1): 26-36.
 * 5) Tripsas, M. (1997), “Unraveling the process of creative destruction: Complementary assets and incumbent survival in the typesetter industry,” //Strategic Management Journal//, 18(Summer): 119-142.
 * 6) de Figueiredo, J.M. and B.S. Silverman (2007), “Strategic dynamics among dominant and fringe firms in a segmented industry,” //Management Science//, 53: 632-650.
 * 7) Hoetker, G. and R. Agarwal (2007), “Death hurts, but it isn’t fatal: The postexit diffusion of knowledge created by innovative companies,” //Academy of Management// //Journal,// 50(2): 446-467.

References in the commentary that are not included in the supplemental reading list

 * 1) Furman, J.L. and S. Stern (2006), “Climbing atop the shoulders of giants: The impact of institutions on cumulative research,” NBER Working Paper #12523.
 * 2) Grodinsky, J. (1953), //Investments//, New York: Ronald Press Company.
 * 3) Hannan, M.T. and J. Freeman (1977), “The population ecology of organizations,” //American Journal of Sociology//, 82(5): 929-964.
 * 4) Hannan, M.T. and J. Freeman (1984), “Structural inertia and organizational change,” //American Sociological Review//, 49: 149 - 164.
 * 5) Levitt, T. (1965), “Exploit the product life cycle,” Harvard Business Review, 43(Nov-Dec): 81-94.
 * 6) Teece, D.J. (1986), “Profiting from technological innovation: Implications for integration, collaboration, licensing, and public policy,” //Research Policy//, 15(6): 285–305.

Stylized facts

 * 1) Caves, R.E. (1998), “Industrial organization and new findings on the turnover and mobility of firms,” 36(4): 1947-1982.
 * 2) Dunne, T., M.J. Roberts & L. Samuelson (1988), “Patterns of firm entry and exit in U.S. manufacturing industries,” //Rand Journal of Economics//, 19(4): 495-515.
 * 3) Geroski, P. A. (1995), "What do we know about entry?” //International Journal of Industrial Organization//, 13(4): 421-440.

Duelling models of industry evolution:

 * 1) Jovanovic, B. (1982), “Selection and the evolution of industry,” //Econometrica//, 50(3): 649-70.
 * 2) Jovanovic, B. and G. MacDonald (1994), “The life cycle of a competitive industry,” //Journal of Political Economy//, 102(2): 322-47.
 * 3) Levinthal, D.A. (1991), “Random walks and organizational mortality,” //Administrative Science Quarterly//, 36: 397-420. [Technically not about industry evolution, but related model of organizational age-survival relationship as function of random shocks.]

Sociological approaches to industry evolution

 * 1) Baum, J.A.C. and C. Oliver (1996), “Toward an institutional ecology of organizational founding,” //Academy of Management Journal//, 39(5): 1378-1427.
 * 2) Baum, J.A.C. and J.V. Singh (1994), “Organizational niches and the dynamics of organizational mortality,” //American Journal of Sociology//, 100(2): 346-380.
 * 3) Carroll, G.R. (1985), “Concentration and specialization: Dynamics of niche width in populations of organizations,” //American Journal of Sociology//, 90(6): 1262-1283.
 * 4) Dobrev, S.D., T. Kim and G.R. Carroll (2002), “The evolution of organizational niches: U.S. automobile manufacturers, 1885-1981,” //Administrative Science Quarterly//, 47(2): 233-264. [Also listed below under “industry segments and submarkets.”]

Industry evolution and agglomeration

 * 1) Klepper, S. (2007), “Disagreements, spinoffs, and the evolution of Detroit as the capital of the U.S. automobile industry,” //Management Science//, 53: 616-631.
 * 2) //De novo and de alio firms (a.k.a., new entry and diversifying entry)//
 * 3) Khessina, O.M. and G.R. Carroll (2008), “Product demography of de nove and de alio firms in the optical disk drive industry, 1983-1999,” //Organization Science//, 19(1): 25-38.
 * 4) Klepper, S. and K.L. Simons (2000), “Dominance by birthright: Entry of prior radio producers and competitive ramifications in the U.S. television receiver industry,” //Strategic Management Journal//, 21(10-11): 997-1016.
 * 5) McKendrick, D.G., J. Jaffee, G.R. Carroll and O.M. Khessina (2003), “In the bud? Disk array producers as a (possibly) emergent organizational form,” //Administrative Science Quarterly//, 48(1): 60-93.

Industry evolution and innovation

 * 1) Abernathy, W.R. and J.M. Utterback (1978), “Patterns of innovation in industry,” //Technology Review//,80(7): 40-47.
 * 2) Agarwal, R. and D.B. Audretsch (2001), “Does entry size matter? The impact of the life cycle and technology on firm survival,” //Journal of Industrial Economics//, 49(1): 21-43.
 * 3) Agarwal, R. and B. Bayus (2002), “The market evolution and take-off of product innovations,” //Management Science//, 48: 1024-1041.
 * 4) Anderson, P. and M.L. Tushman (1990), “Technological discontinuities and dominant designs: A cyclical model of technological change,” //Administrative Science Quarterly//, 35(4): 604-633.
 * 5) McGahan, A.M. and B.S. Silverman (2002), “ How does innovative activity change as industries mature?,” //International Journal of Industrial Organization//, 19(7): 1141-1160.
 * 6) Tushman, M.E. and P. Anderson (1986), “Technological discontinuities and organizational environments,” //Administrative Science Quarterly//, 31(3): 439-465.

Industry segments and submarkets

 * 1) Dobrev, S.D., T. Kim and G.R. Carroll (2002), “The evolution of organizational niches: U.S. automobile manufacturers, 1885-1981,” //Administrative Science Quarterly//, 47(2): 233-264. [Also listed below under “sociological approaches to industry evolution.”]
 * 2) King, A.A. and C. Tucci (2002), “Incumbent entry into new market niches: The role of experience and managerial choice in the creation of dynamic capabilities,” //Management Science//, 48(2): 171-186.
 * 3) Klepper, S. and P. Thompson (2006), “Submarkets and the evolution of market structure,“ //Rand Journal of Economics//, 37(4): 861-886.
 * 4) Mitchell, W. (1989), “Whether and when? Probability and timing of incumbents' entry into emerging industrial subfields,” //Administrative Science Quarterly//, 34:208-230.

Evolutionary theory writ large (see footnote 1 of the commentary)

 * 1) Langlois, R.N. (1992) ,”External economies and economic progress: The case of the microcomputer industry,” //Business History Review//, 66(1): 1-50.
 * 2) Langlois, R.N. and M.J. Everett (1994), “What is evolutionary economics,” chapter 2 in L. Magnusson, editor, //Evolutionary and Neo-Schumpeterian Approaches to Economics//, Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishing.
 * 3) Murmann, J.P. (2003), //Knowledge and Competitive Advantage: The Coevolution of Firms, Technology, and National Institutions//, Cambridge UK: Cambridge University Press.
 * 4) Nelson, R.R. and S.G. Winter (1982), //An Evolutionary Theory of Economic Change//, Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.
 * 5) Silverberg, G., G. Dosi and L. Orsenigo (1988), “Innovation, diversity and diffusion: A self-organisation model,” //Economic Journal//, 98(393): 1032-1054.