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Richard N. Langlois is Professor of Economics at
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Curriculum vitaeSeptember 2006 |
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Education.
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Academic Experience.
9/91-date
Professor of Economics, University
of 1/05-date
Adjunct (honorary) Professor in
Strategy and Business History, Department of Management, Politics, and
Philosophy, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark. 9/02-6/03
Senior Fellow, Department of
Management, The 10/87-9/91 Associate
Professor of Economics, 9/83-9/87 Assistant
Professor of Economics, University of 9/81-9/83
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, New York
University; Associate Research Scientist, C.V. Starr Center for
Applied Economics, New York University; Research Assistant Professor, Center
for Science and Technology Policy, Graduate School of Business
Administration, New York University. 9/80-9/81
Instructor, Department of Economics, |
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Short-term visits.
Department of Industrial
Economics and Strategy, Department of Economics, Université
Lumière/Lyon 2, and the Maison Rhône-Alpes des Sciences de
l'Homme, Department of Economics
and Management, University College, |
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Honors and
Awards
Co-recipient of the 2006 Schumpeter Prize
of the International Joseph A. Schumpeter Society.. Provost’s
Research Excellence Award, Named Adjunct (Honorary)
Professor in Strategy and Business History, Department of Management,
Politics, and Philosophy, Grillo Family Faculty
Award for Research, Department of Economics, Chancellor’s
Research Fellowship, 2002-2003. Voted “Most Appreciated
Faculty Member” by the Association of Graduate Economics
Students,
Department of Economics, University of Connecticut, 1997-98 and 2000-01. Newcomen Award for the
best paper in Business History Review,
1992. |
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Advisory and editorial positions.
North American co-editor, Journal
of Institutional Economics.
(JOIE.) Member, advisory board, Danish Research Unit in Industrial Dynamics
(DRUID), Member, Board of
Management, International
Joseph A. Schumpeter Society. Member, editorial board, Journal
of Evolutionary Economics. Member, International
Editorial Board, Industry
and Innovation. Member, editorial board, Journal
of Management and Governance. Member, editorial board,
Series on the Economics of Science, Technology, and Innovation, Kluwer
Academic Publishers. Contributing Editor, The Independent
Review. Member, advisory board, Advances
in Austrian Economics. Associate Editor, Review
of Austrian Economics. Member, Scientific
Committee, Journal des Economistes et des Etudes Humaines. Member, Scientific
Council, Economie et Institutions. |
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Highlights of recent professional activities.
Invited
Lecturer, European Summer
School in the New Institutional Economics, May 15-20, 2006, Cargèse, Delivered two
days of lectures on the economics of organization at Inaugural
Lecture as Director, Intensive course in institutional economics, Fifth Trento Summer School, Programme in Adaptive Economic Dynamics, Delivered the Graz
Schumpeter Lectures, Invited
participant, National Science Foundation workshop on "Science
of Design: Software-Intensive Systems," Presenter and
panelist, Leverhulme conference on "Digital Transformations: ICT's
Impact on Productivity: Economies, Industries and Firms," Keynote speaker,
international conference on The Evolution of Institutions and the Knowledge
Economy, Panelist,
Professional Development Workshop on "Research on Technology Standards:
Present Perspectives and Future Agenda," Keynote
speaker, Second Brazilian Seminar on the New Institutional Economics, Paper presenter,
George Mason University Conference on Dynamic Competition and Public Policy, Faculty speaker, first
annual Social Science Research Council-MacArthur Foundation graduate student
workshop, August, 7-8, 1998, Invited speaker, Economic
Outlook Conference, Asia
Pacific Economic Cooperation Forum (APEC), Keynote address, annual
meeting of the European Association for Research in Industrial Economics
(EARIE), "Book launch" of
Langlois and Robertson, Firms, Markets, and Economic Change, Institute of Economic Affairs,
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Books and Monographs.
Richard N. Langlois, The Dynamics of
Industrial Capitalism: Schumpeter, Chandler, and the New Economy. The
Richard N. Langlois, Tony
Fu-Lai Yu, and Paul L. Robertson, eds., Alternative Theories of the Firm.
Richard N. Langlois and
Paul L. Robertson, Firms, Markets,
and Economic Change: A Dynamic Theory of Business Institutions
. Don Lavoie, Howard
Baetjer, William Tulloh, and Richard N. Langlois,
Thomas A. Pugel, Carmela S. Haklisch, Richard R. Nelson, and William G.
Egelhoff, Microelectronics: An Industry in Transition. Richard N. Langlois, ed., Economics as a Process:
Essays in the New Institutional Economics. Herbert I. Fusfeld and
Richard N. Langlois, eds., Understanding R&D Productivity. Herbert I. Fusfeld,
Richard N. Langlois, and Richard R. Nelson, The Changing Tide: Federal
Support of Civilian Sector R&D. Center for Science and Technology
Policy, Graduate School of Business Administration, New York University,
November 1981. |
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Articles
Published or in Press.
A. Theory of the firm, organizational
boundaries, and technology. “The
Secret Life of Mundane Transaction Costs,” Organization
Studies 27(9): 1389-1410 (1996). (Invited “peripheral Vision”
feature.) “Competition
through Institutional Form: the Case of Cluster Tool Standards,” in Shane Greenstein and
Victor Stango, eds., Standards and
Public Policy. "Chandler in a
Larger Frame: Markets, Transaction Costs, and Organizational Form in History,"
"Strategy as
Economics versus Economics as Strategy," Managerial
and Decision Economics 24(4): 283-290 (June-July 2003). "The Vanishing Hand: the Changing Dynamics of Industrial
Capitalism," Industrial and Corporate Change 12(2):
351-385 (2003). Italian translation in Annali di storia dell'impresa 14:
59-110 (2003). Spanish
translation in Libertas
[ "Cognitive
Comparative Advantage and the Organization of Work: Lessons from Herbert
Simon's Vision of the Future," Journal of Economic
Psychology 24: 187-207 (2003). "Introduction"
(with Tony Fu-Lai Yu and Paul L. Robertson), in Richard N. Langlois, Tony
Fu-Lai Yu, and Paul L. Robertson, eds., Alternative
Theories of the Firm. "Introduction:
Managing in the Modular Age: Architectures, Networks, and Organizations"
(with "Commentary on
'Networks and Innovation in a Modular System'" (with Paul L. Robertson)
in "Modularity in
Technology and Organization," Journal of Economic
Behavior and Organization 49(1): 19-37 (September 2002), reprinted
in "Organizations and
Language Games" (with Roger Koppl), Journal of
Management and Governance 5(3-4): 287-305 (2001). "Digital
Technology and Economic Growth: the History of Semiconductors and Computers,"
in Benn Steil, David Victor, and Richard R. Nelson eds., Technological
Innovation and Economic Performance. "Technological Standards,
Innovation, and Essential Facilities: Toward a Schumpeterian Post-Chicago
Approach," in Jerry Ellig, ed., Dynamic
Competition and Public Policy: Technology, Innovation, and Antitrust Issues. "Standards,
Modularity, and Innovation: the Case of Medical Practice"
(with Deborah A. Savage), in "Knowledge,
Consumption, and Endogenous Growth," Journal of
Evolutionary Economics 11(1): 77-93 (January 2001), reprinted in
Ulrich Witt, ed., Escaping Satiation: the Demand Side and Economic Growth.
"Strategy and Circumstance:
the Response of American Firms to Japanese Competition in Semiconductors,
1980-1995," (with W. Edward Steinmueller), Strategic
Management Journal 21: 1163-1173 (2000), reprinted in Constance
Helfat, ed., The Strategic Management Society Handbook of Organizational
Capabilities. "Capabilities and
Vertical Disintegration in Process Technology: The Case of Semiconductor
Fabrication Equipment," in Nicolai J. Foss and Paul L.
Robertson, eds., Resources, Technology, and Strategy. "The Evolution of
Competitive Advantage in the Worldwide Semiconductor Industry,
1947-1996" (with W. Edward Steinmueller), in David C. Mowery and Richard
R. Nelson, eds., The Sources of
Industrial Leadership. "Scale, Scope, and
the Reuse of Knowledge," in Sheila C. Dow and Peter E.
Earl, eds., Economic Organization and Economic Knowledge: Essays in Honour
of Brian J. Loasby. "The Coevolution
of Technology and Organization in the Transition to the Factory System,"
in Paul L. Robertson, ed., Authority and Control in Modern Industry. "Capabilities and
Governance: the Rebirth of Production in the Theory of Economic Organization"
(with Nicolai J. Foss), Kyklos 52(2): 201-218 (1999), reprinted
in Richard N. Langlois, Tony Fu-Lai Yu, and Paul L. Robertson, eds., Alternative
Theories of the Firm. "The Organization
of Consumption" (with Metin M. Cosgel), in Marina
Bianchi, ed., The Active Consumer: Novelty and Surprise in Consumer Choice.
"Personal Capitalism
as Charismatic Authority: the Organizational Economics of a Weberian Concept,"
Industrial and Corporate Change 7: 195-214 (1998). "Schumpeter and
Personal Capitalism," in Gunnar Eliasson and Christopher
Green with Charles McCann, eds., Microfoundations of Economic Growth: A
Schumpeterian Perspective. "Capabilities and
the Theory of the Firm," in Nicolai J. Foss and Brian J.
Loasby, eds., Economic Organization, Capabilities and Co-ordination:
Essays in Honour of G.B. Richardson. "Transaction
Costs, Production Costs, and the Passage of Time," in
Steven G. Medema, ed., Coasean Economics: Law and Economics and the New
Institutional Economics. "Cognition and
Capabilities: Opportunities Seized and Missed in the History of the Computer
Industry," in "Cognition,
Redundancy, and Learning in Organizations" (with Pierre
Garrouste), Economics of Innovation and New Technology 4:
287-299 (1997). "Spinning Off and
Spinning On(?): The Federal Government Role in the
Development of the U.S. Computer Software Industry"
(with David C. Mowery), Research Policy 25: 947-966 (1996). "The Federal
Government Role in the Development of the American Software Industry: An
Assessment" (with David C. Mowery), chapter 3 in
David C. Mowery, ed., The International Computer Software Industry: A
Comparative Study of Industrial Evolution and Structure. "Do Firms Plan?"
Constitutional Political Economy 6(3): 247-261 (1995). Author's
translation into French as "La Firme planifie-t-elle?" in Pierre
Garrouste, ed., Les frontières de la firme, "Capabilities and
Coherence in Firms and Markets," in Cynthia A.
Montgomery, ed., Resource-based and Evolutionary Theories of the Firm:
Towards a Synthesis. "Innovation,
Networks, and Vertical Integration" (with Paul L.
Robertson), Research Policy 24: 543-562 (July 1995) reprinted
in John Storey, ed., The Management of Innovation. "Institutions,
Inertia, and Changing Industrial Leadership" (with Paul L.
Robertson), Industrial and Corporate Change 3(2): 359-378
(1994). "Business
Organization as a Coordination Problem: Toward A Dynamic Theory of the
Boundaries of the Firm" (with Paul L. Robertson), Business
and Economic History 22(1): 31-41 (Fall 1993), reprinted in
Richard N. Langlois, Tony Fu-Lai Yu, and Paul L. Robertson, eds., Alternative
Theories of the Firm. "External
Economies and Economic Progress: The Case of the Microcomputer Industry,"
Business History Review 66(1): 1-50 (Spring 1992), reprinted in
William Lazonick and William Mass, eds., Organizational Capability and
Competitive Advantage. "Modularity,
Innovation, and the Firm: the Case of Audio Components" (with Paul L.
Robertson), in Frederick M. Scherer and Mark Perlman, eds., Entrepreneurship,
Technological Innovation, and Economic Growth Studies in the Schumpeterian
Tradition. "Complexity, Genuine
Uncertainty, and the Theory of Organization" (with Michael J. Everett), Human
Systems Management 11(2): 67-75 (1992). "Networks and
Innovation in a Modular System: Lessons from the Microcomputer and Stereo
Component Industries" (with Paul L. Robertson), Research
Policy 21(4): 297-313 (1992), reprinted in "Transaction-Cost Economics
in Real Time," Industrial and Corporate Change 1(1):
99-127 (1992), reprinted in Nicolai J. Foss, ed., Resources, Firms, and
Strategies: A Reader in the Resource-Based Perspective. "The Capabilities
of Industrial Capitalism," Critical Review 5(4):
513-530 (Fall 1991). "Creating External
Capabilities: Innovation and Vertical Disintegration in the Microcomputer
Industry," Business and Economic History 19:
93-102 (1990). "Contract,
Competition, and Efficiency," "Explaining
Vertical Integration: Lessons from the American Automobile Industry" (with
Paul L. Robertson), Journal of Economic History 49(2): 361-375
(June 1989), reprinted in Mark Casson, ed., The Theory of the Firm. "Economic Change and
the Boundaries of the Firm," Journal of Institutional and Theoretical
Economics 144(4): 635-657 (1988), reprinted in Bo Carlsson, ed., Industrial
Dynamics: Technological, Organizational, and Structural Changes in Industries
and Firms. "Internal Organization in a Dynamic
Context: Some Theoretical Considerations," in M. Jussawalla
and H. Ebenfield, eds., Communication and Information Economics: New
Perspectives. "Industrial
Innovation Policy: Lessons from American History"
(with Richard R. Nelson), Science 219: 814-818 ( B.
Economics of institutions, economic thought, and methodology. "Schumpeter and
the Obsolescence of the Entrepreneur," Advances in
Austrian Economics 6: 287-302 (2003). "Kirznerian
Entrepreneurship and the Nature of the Firm," Journal des Economistes
et des Etudes Humaines 12(1), March 2002. "Knowledge and
Meliorism in the Evolutionary Theory of F. A. Hayek"
(with Müfit Sabooglu), in Kurt Dopfer, ed., Evolutionary Economics: Program and Scope. "Rule-following,
Expertise, and Rationality: a New Behavioral Economics?" "When Do Ideas
Matter? A Study in the Natural Selection of Social Games" (with Roger
Koppl), Advances in Austrian Economics, Volume 1, 1994, pp. 81-104. "What Is Evolutionary
Economics?" (with Michael J. Everett), chapter 2 in Lars Magnusson, ed.,
Evolutionary and Neo-Schumpeterian Approaches to Economics. "Frank Knight on
Risk, Uncertainty, and the Firm: A New Interpretation"
(with Metin Cosgel), Economic Inquiry 31: 456-465 (July 1993). "Optimization, Rule
Following, and the Methodology of Situational Analysis" (with
László Csontos), in Uskali Mäki, Bo Gustafsson, and
Christian Knudsen, eds., Rationality, Institutions, and Economic
Methodology. "Orders and
Organizations: Toward an Austrian Theory of Social Institutions," in
Bruce Caldwell and "Fritz Machlup and
Marginalism: A Reevaluation" (with Roger Koppl), Methodus
3(2): 86-102 (December 1991). "What Was Wrong with
the 'Old' Institutional Economics? (And What Is Still Wrong with the
'New'?)" Review of Political Economy 1(3): 272-300
(November 1989). Translated into Danish and reprinted in Christian Knudsen,
ed., Institutionalismen i Samfundsvidenskaberne. "Are Economic Models
Applicable to Politics?" Economia delle Scelta Pubbliche/Journal of
Public Finance and Public Choice 1988(2): 83-93 (Summer 1988). "Coherence and
Flexibility: Social Institutions in a World of Radical Uncertainty,"
in "The New
Institutional Economics: An Introductory Essay," in R. N. Langlois, ed.,
Economics as a Process: Essays in the New Institutional Economics. "Rationality,
Institutions, and Explanation," in R. N. Langlois, ed., Economics as
a Process: Essays in the New Institutional Economics. "Knowledge and Rationality in the Austrian School: An
Analytical Survey," Eastern Economic Journal 9(4):
309-330 (1985), reprinted in John Cunningham Wood and Ronald N. Woods, eds., Friedrich
A. Hayek: Critical Assessments. Volume 4. Critical Assessments of
Contemporary Economists. "From the Knowledge
of Economics to the Economics of Knowledge: Fritz Machlup on Methodology and
on the 'Knowledge Society,'" Research in the History of Economic
Thought and Methodology 3: 225-235 (1985). "Systems Theory, Knowledge, and the Social Sciences,"
in Fritz Machlup and Una Mansfield, eds., The Study of Information:
Interdisciplinary Messages, "The Market Process:
An Evolutionary View," Market Process 1(2), Summer 1983,
reprinted in Peter J. Boettke and David L. Prychitko, eds., The Market
Process: Essays in Contemporary Austrian Economics. "Systems Theory and
the Meaning of Information," Journal of the American Society for
Information Science 33(6): 395-399 (November 1982). "Austrian Economics
as Affirmative Science," in Israel M. Kirzner, ed., Method, Process,
and Austrian Economics: Essays in Honor of Ludwig von Mises, "Cost-Benefit
Analysis, Environmentalism, and Rights," The Cato
Journal 2(1): 279-300 (Spring 1982).
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Book reviews and shorter pieces:
Entry on Fritz Machlup, in
Ross Emmett, ed., Biographical
Dictionary of American Economists.
Entry on
“Information,” in Jens Beckert and “Comment on ‘Group Selection and
Methodological Individualism: Compatible and Complementary’ by Douglas
Glen Whitman,” Advances in Austrian Economics 7:261-265 (2004). Entry on the computer
industry for the Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History (Joel Mokyr,
editor), 2003. "Strategy and the
Market Process: Introduction to the Special Issue," Managerial
and Decision Economics 22: 163-168 (2001), special issue on "Strategy and the
Market Process" (R. N. Langlois, guest editor). Foreword to Tony Fu-Lai
Yu, Firms, Governments, and Economic Change: An Entrepreneurial
Perspective. Biographical entry in Mark Blaug, eds., Who's Who in Economics.
Entry on “Rationality in
Economics,” International Encyclopedia of Business
& Management, 2nd edition. Entry on the computer
industry in Robert Ferrell and Joan Hoff, eds., Supplement to Scribner's Dictionary
of American History. Entries on "The New
Institutional Economics," "The Boundaries of the Firm," and
"Risk and Uncertainty" for Peter J. Boettke, ed., The Elgar
Companion to Austrian Economics. "Bounded Rationality
and Behavioralism: A Clarification and Critique," invited note for a
symposium in The Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics 146(4):
691-695 (December 1990), reprinted in Claude Ménard, ed., The
International Library of the New Institutional Economics. "On the Reception of
Noise: A Rejoinder," in Fritz Machlup and Una Mansfield, eds., The
Study of Information: Interdisciplinary Messages. "Can Mathematical
Systems Be Concrete?" in Fritz Machlup and Una Mansfield, eds., The
Study of Information: Interdisciplinary Messages. Eighteen book reviews in
eleven different journals, including Journal of Economic Literature
(5), Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization (3), The Public
Interest (2), Southern Economic Journal, Journal of Economic History,
Business History Review, Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics,
Economics and Philosophy, Constitutional Political Economy, Managerial and
Decision Economics, and Public Choice. |
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Unpublished.
“The
Entrepreneurial Theory of the Firm and the Theory of the Entrepreneurial Firm,” Paper for the conference “Why Do
Entrepreneurial Firms Exist?”
"Stop Crying over
Spilt Knowledge: A Critical Look at the Theory of Spillovers and Technical
Change"
(with Paul L. Robertson), paper presented at the MERIT conference on
Innovation, Evolution and Technology, "Bursting Boilers
and the Federal Power Redux: How Effective Was Federal Regulation on the
Western Rivers?"
(with David J. Denault and Samson M. Kimenyi). Paper presented at the
Economic History Seminar, "Uncertainty and
the Origin of Predictable Behavior: Heiner Reexamined"
(with Thomas J. Miceli), Working Paper 91-1500, Department of Economics, |
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