The evolution of IT innovations in Swedish organizations: A Darwinian critique of 'Lamarckian' institutional economics

Journal of Evolutionary Economics

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 1-23

  Sandberg, Mikael ^a  

^a HALMSTAD UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Darwinism; Evolutionary economics; Information technologies; Institutions; Meme

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846362188     PISSN: 09369937     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00191-006-0029-1     Document Type: Article

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