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Jun
21
2010
Geoffrey Hodgson: The Mirage of MicrofoundationsPublished in video, routine, microfoundation, geoffrey hodgson, conference, competence by Jasu KoponenThe Micro-origins of Organizational Routines and Competencies conference held last weekend in Suomenlinna, Helsinki, brought together top-researchers of the field to discuss the individual-level (beliefs, preferences, expectations, or abilities, characteristics) and aggregational (social interactional dynamics) factors that play a central role in the origins of organizational routines and capabilities.
The conference featured many prominent speakers, with keynotes given by Michael D. Cohen (University of Michigan), Geoffrey Hodgson (University of Hertfordshire), Tammy Madsen (Santa Clara University), Maurizio Zollo (Bocconi) and Linda Argote (Carnegie Mellon University). The most heated conversation (one might almost call it a debate) arose from Hodgson's keynote, where he basically challenged the whole notion of micro-foundations as a basis for organizational research and theorizing. The video below shows Hodgsons keynote and the discussion and debate that followed, with Teppo Felin (Marriot School, BYU) as discussant and defender of the micro-perspective.
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