Technological trajectories, markets, institutions Industrialized countries, 19th-20th centuries : from context dependency to path dependency Trajectoires technologiques, marchés, institutions. Les pays industrialisés, 19e-20e siècles : de la dépendance du contexte à la dépendance de sentier
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Technological trajectories, markets, institutions . Industrialized countries, 19th-20th centuries : from context dependency to path dependency = Trajectoires technologiques, marchés, institutions. Les pays industrialisés, 19e-20e siècles : de la dépendance du contexte à la dépendance de sentier
Peter Lang, c2001
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This collection of thirteen essays arises from a session held at the Twelfth International Economic Congress in Madrid (August 1998). The historical case studies presented here demonstrate the complex dependence of technological forms on shifting background conditions like market changes or institutional developments. Recent research on the key themes addressed in this volume has shown the path-dependent aspects of technological trajectories and change. Directions taken in the past may have long term effects: in the selection of techniques for example, earlier events, sometimes dominated by chance elements, could give rise to a single technological outcome, even a suboptimal one, and exert important influences on the future developments of processes and products. Path-dependent views are a challenge to the neo-classical theory of rational choice. The contributions scrutinise the conditions in terms of trajectories - firm or industry specific in some essays, regional or national in others - explaining stability or reorientation.
Les treize textes reunis dans ce volume sont issus d'une session tenue dans le cadre du XIIe Congres International d'Histoire Economique a Madrid en aout 1998 qui a aborde la question
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Laurent Tissot/Beatrice Veyrassat: Introduction - Jacques Perrin: The Decisive Importance of Organizational Models to Understand Technological Revolutions - Jan Pedersen: Rhetorical and Theoretical Devices in the Economic History of Technology: A Discussion Based on Deconstructive Method and on the Historical Example of Mechanical Engineering - Dmitri Gouzevitch/Irina Gouzevitch: Transfert de technologies en matiere de travaux publics en Russie: quete aux innovations et choix politiques, 1800-1850 - Wolf-gang Konig: Railways on Swiss Mountains: A Demonstration of an Agency-Structure-Concept of Technological Development - Roger Lloyd-Jones/Mervin J. Lewis: Technological Pathways, Modes of Development, and the British National Innovation System. Examples from British Industry, 1880-1914 - Michael Mende: The Harz Charcoal Ironworks in Search for New Products Enabling to Compete on Markets in Change, 19th Century - Liviu A. Sofonea/Victor M. Sofonea: Technological Trajectory in a "Forced Industrialization". An Example in Romania, 1946-1990 - James S. Foreman-Peck: The Path Dependence of Technological Trajectories. The Battery Electric Vehicle - Christoph Maria Merki: The Birth of Motoring out of Sport: Car Racing as a Public Relations Strategy, 1894-1905 - Ian D. Rae/John Lack: Development of the Acid and Fertiliser Industry in 19th Century New Zealand: Business Networks and Government Rewards - Dominique Barjot: Un leadership fonde sur l'innovation, Colas: 1929-1997 - Margrit Muller: Patterns of Technical Innovation, Market Relationships, and Institutional Change During the Interwar Period - Serge Paquier: L'electromecanique genevoise des annees 1880 a la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Le lent apprentissage de l'industrie des machines.
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