"Progress in science is only achieved through careful analysis of methods and their power. Designing without analysis is idle speculation. lmplementatzon without analysis is tinkering. Alone they have no research value. All too often we read of major pieces of Al work that stop with the engineering steps. But we need to know how the zrnplemented program embodies the designs and that the program...

Searching for technological and organizational innovations is a fundamental activity in social systems. Recent work in this area has focused on the notion of firms locally searching for high points on a “fitness landscape.” Here we show how the presence of neutral networks forming pathways of temporarily inconsequential changes can alter the potential of innovation in such worlds. In particular...

Objective: This essay aims to point out impediments Schumpeterianism and the potential of non-Schumpeterian ways regarding effectuation bricolage overcome crises. Methodology/approach: is an based on literature available mainly entrepreneurial as well empirical data from semi-structured interviews using qualitative methods. Main results: The text argues that approaches are particularly appropri...

A trapper of eighteenth century needed a box of matches, a gun and a knife, and perhaps, a tent and a canoe or a dogsled to survive in the wilderness. Today, almost anyone of us would feel uncomfortable without, in addition, GPS, a mobile phone with internet access, a medicine-chest with at least aspirin, an antibiotic as well as a serum against snake bite, and a lot more to master the same sit...

This paper explores the extension of collective governance to sectors without tradition. We introduce concept state-led bricolage analyze expansion Swiss apprenticeship training system – in which employer associations fulfill core tasks economic had previously followed a school-based and state-oriented logic. In deindustrializing societies, these are key for survival collectively governed syste...

This paper describes how a critical qualitative bricolage of research methods, with participatory action and constructivist grounded theory at the center, were assembled applied to support stronger theorization work public sector innovation labs while remaining strongly in experiences intelligence practitioners. We begin by sharing context for this research, including describing what PSI are, p...