Institutions, innovations, organizations: aspects of the early intellectual and institutional history of Industrial and Corporate Change

Seen as one of the key interdisciplinary “hot groups” in the history of research on historical, evolutionary, and behavioral perspectives on industry dynamics and management research, the milieu around Industrial and Corporate Change (ICC) reflects and shares emphasis on several of the themes of another influential hot group, the Carnegie School’s behavioral organization perspective, as well as shared roots with the intellectual environments around the SPRU group. We discuss some of the intellectual, institutional, and organizational forces that helped shape the early years and interdisciplinary vision and scope of ICC; the importance of the early enthusiasm and passion of both key members of ICC and the intellectual fields, and some of the enablers (and resistances) to the early interdisciplinary work.