Organizational Evolution
New Directions
1st Edition
Published on 11. October 1990
Book
Hardback
336 pages
978-0-8039-3658-4 (ISBN)
Description
During the last decade, the prominent approach in organization theory has moved from an emphasis on adaptive change in organizations to an increasingly influential selection approach to studying organizational change. This volume addresses organizational evolution by examining the process of continual change within organizations, including founding, disbanding, growth and change. Drawn from a broad theoretical base, the chapters provide the most current evolutionary thinking about organizations from a variety of fields.
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Minimalism and organizational mortality - patterns of disbanding among US Trade Associations, 1900-1983, Howard Aldrich, et al; ecological analysis of semiconductor firm morality, John Freeman; do larger organizations generate stronger competition?, William P.Barnett and Terry L.Aamburgey; density delay in the evolution of organizational populations - a model and five empirical tests, Glenn R.Carroll and Michael T.Hannam; on the maturation and aging of organizational populations, Joel A.C.Barum and Robert J.House; the dynamics of organizational studies, Charles J.Lumsden and Jitendra V.Singh; intra-organizational ecology of strategy making and organizational adaptation - theory and preliminary empirical investigation, Robert A.Burgelman; founding characteristics, imprinting and organizational change, David J.Tucker, et al; organizational adaptation, enviromental selection and random walks, Daniel A.Levinthal; evolution in communities of voluntary organizations, Miller McPherson; competition and the evolution of organizational size distributions, Michael T.Hannam, et al; survival, selection and inheritance in evolutionary theories of organization, Sidney G.Winter; notes of a skeptic - from organizational ecology to organizational evolution, Marshall W.Meyer; future directions in organizational evolution, Jitendra V.Singh.