TY  - BOOK
AU  - Roels, Joop A.
TI  - The origin and the evolution of firms : information as a driving force / Joop A. Roels
SN  - 9781607509561
U1  - 330.1 
CY  - Amsterdam : IOS Press, 2012.
KW  - Business enterprises
KW  - Evolutionary economics
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-215)
; Laws, theories and models -- Macroscopic thermodynamics -- Macroscopic and microscopic models : statistical thermodynamics -- A general theory of transformations and economic transactions -- Systems theory of evolution -- The firm and information processing -- Some concepts of economic theory -- The evolution of the universe -- The co-evolution of earth and life -- Human evolution -- History of science -- The evolution of technology -- The Industrial Revolution -- The development of some of the leading firms -- Tracing the source and the direction of evolution : a summary -- Epilogue
ER  -