Deepening the Conversation between Business History and Evolutionary Economics

Abstract

How can business historians and evolutionary economists deepen their conversations? The paper argues that in doing detailed studies of how individual firms develop capabilities over time is where the concerns of business historians who want to tell the history of individual firms and the concerns of evolutionary economists overlap. This is area where more extensive interactions would be most productive.

Keywords: Business history, evolutionary economics, firm capabilities, institutional economics

JEL Classification: B15, N80, M10