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Journal of Innovation Economics
De Boeck Université

I.S.B.N.sans
196 pages

p. 15 à 33
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n° 2 2008/2

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Industrial revolutions and the evolution of the firm’s organization: an historical perspective

Judit Kapás

Résumé de l'article

The aim of this paper is to contribute to a better understanding of the firm through an explanation for its evolution, as part of the co-evolution of social and physical technologies. It is argued that since the emergence of the capitalist firm (factory) in the British Industrial Revolution this co-evolutionary process has brought about two major mutant-forms, namely the M-form which emerged from the beginning of the Second Industrial Revolution and the decentralized-disintegrated organization (project-based form) born in the ICT revolution. This paper analyzes the rise of the succeeding mutant-forms in the co-evolutionary process framework and also highlights the nature of the differences between them.
JEL Codes: D20, O30, P12 Keywords : firm organization, technological change, evolution, industrial revolution.

Plan de l'article

• Introduction

• The framework of the historical analysis

• The first phase in the evolution of the firm: the rise of the factory

• The second phase in the evolution of the firm: the rise of the M-form

• The third phase in the evolution of the firm: the emergence of the project-based firm

• Conclusions

• References

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