dc.contributor.author | Hodgson, Geoffrey | |
dc.contributor.author | Knudsen, T. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2011-08-16T10:01:11Z | |
dc.date.available | 2011-08-16T10:01:11Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2011 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Hodgson , G & Knudsen , T 2011 , ' Poverty of stimulus and absence of cause : some questions for Felin and Foss ' , Journal of Institutional Economics , vol. 7 , no. 2 , pp. 295-298 . https://doi.org/10.1017/S1744137411000129 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1744-1374 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2299/6259 | |
dc.description | Original article can be found at : http://journals.cambridge.org/ Copyright Cambridge University Press | |
dc.description.abstract | We examine an aspect of the argument of Teppo Felin and Nicolai Foss ('The Endogenous Origins of Experience, Routines, and Organizational Capabilities: The Poverty of Stimulus'; 2011) where they reject the claim of Geoffrey Hodgson and Thorbjorn Knudsen ('Darwinism, Causality and the Social Sciences'; 2004) that habits depend crucially on stimuli from the social environment. We argue that while rightly stressing human agency they also create a false dichotomy between agential and environmental factors in the explanation. Felin and Foss create further confusion by hinting - without adequate clarification - at an untenable notion of human agency as an uncaused cause. We raise several questions of clarification for these authors. | en |
dc.format.extent | 4 | |
dc.format.extent | 104261 | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.relation.ispartof | Journal of Institutional Economics | |
dc.subject | routines | |
dc.subject | habits | |
dc.subject | causality | |
dc.subject | evolution | |
dc.subject | uncaused cause | |
dc.title | Poverty of stimulus and absence of cause : some questions for Felin and Foss | en |
dc.contributor.institution | Social Sciences, Arts & Humanities Research Institute | |
dc.contributor.institution | Department of Accounting, Finance and Economics | |
dc.contributor.institution | Group for Research in Organisational Evolution | |
dc.contributor.institution | Centre for Research on Management, Economy and Society | |
dc.description.status | Peer reviewed | |
rioxxterms.versionofrecord | 10.1017/S1744137411000129 | |
rioxxterms.type | Journal Article/Review | |
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