Sidney G. Winter

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Sidney Graham Winter (* 1935 in Iowa City , Iowa ) is an American economist and professor. for Technological Change at the University of Pennsylvania .

Education and professional career

Winter received a Ph.D. from Yale University in 1964. PhD. In 1980 he founded the journal Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization with Richard H. Day . From 1989 to 1993 Chief Economist of the Government Accountability Office . Since 1993, Winter has been a professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania . He previously taught at Yale University, the University of Michigan, and the University of California at Berkeley .

Between 2005 and 2009, Winter was Vice President of the Graz Schumpeter Society . In 2008 he received the Viipuri Prize for Strategic Management .

Work areas

Winters main field of research is he co-founded evolutionary economics , in which he later the concept of dynamic capabilities of enterprises ( dynamic capabilities ) integrated. He examined u. a. Growth processes in industry.

Works

  • An Evolutionary Theory of Economic Change. 1982, ISBN 0674272285
  • Patents and Welfare in an Evolutionary Model. 1993
  • Understanding dynamic capabilities. Strategic Management Journal, vol. 24 (2003), pp. 991-995.
  • with M. Jacobides: The Co-evolution of Capabilities and Transaction Costs: Explaining the Institutional Structure of Production , in: Strategic Management Journal, vol 26 (2005), pp. 395-413.

literature

  • Mark Blaug (Ed.): Who's who in economics. 3rd edition, Elgar, Cheltenham [u. a.] 1999, ISBN 1-85898-886-1 , pp. 1182-1183

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization Editorial Board. journals.elsevier.com, accessed October 1, 2015 .

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personal data
SURNAME Winter, Sidney G.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Winter, Sidney Graham (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American economist
DATE OF BIRTH 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Iowa City , Iowa