Meta-paradigm change and the theory of the firm

被引:18
作者
Nightingale, Paul [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Sussex, Freeman Ctr, SPRU, Brighton BN1 9QE, E Sussex, England
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英国经济与社会研究理事会;
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10.1093/icc/dtn016
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F [经济];
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02 ;
摘要
Many seemingly unrelated debates on the theory of the firm are in fact part of a single, deeper transformation of the social sciences. As the foundational assumptions of 20th century social science have slowly been shown by science to be false, new sub-paradigms have emerged, which cumulatively drop (i) theoretical assumptions about markets to explain firms; (ii) epistemological assumptions about knowledge to explain diversity; and (iii) metaphysical assumptions about causality to explain technical change. Debates occur across each of these levels.
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