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1 online resource (518 pages) |
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Contributors; 1. Organizational Hierarchies and Evolutionary Processes: Some Reflections on a Theory of Organizational Evolution; Part I: Introductory Essays; 2. How Individual and Face-to-Face-Group Selection Undermine Firm Selection in Organizational Evolution; 3. The Evolution of Evolution; Part II: Intraorganizational Evolution; 4. An Intraorganizational Ecological Perspective on Managerial Risk Behavior, Performance, and Survival: Individual, Organizational, and Environmental Effects; 5. Seeking Adaptive Advantage: Evolutionary Theory and Managerial Action |
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6. Organizing for Continuous Improvement: Evolutionary Theory Meets the Quality RevolutionCOMMENTARIES; Turning Evolution Inside the Organization; Evolution, Externalities and Managerial Action; Part III: Organizational Evolution; 7. Evolutionary Processes and Patterns of Core Business Change; 8. The Ecological Dynamics of Organizational Change: Density and Mass Dependence in Rates of Entry into New Markets; 9. Surviving Schumpeterian Environments: An Evolutionary Perspective; 10. Mimetic Learning and the Evolution of Organizational Populations; COMMENTARIES; Taking on Strategy, 1-2-3 |
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On Behalf of NaïvetéPart IV: Population Evolution; 11. Minimalism, Mutalism, and Maturity: The Evolution of the American Trade Association Population in the 20th Century; 12. Disruptive Selection and Population Segmentation: Interpopulation Competition as a Segregation Process; 13. Externalities and Ecological Theory: Unbundling Density Dependence; 14. Resource Partitioning and Foundings of Banking Cooperatives in Italy; 15. The Evolution of Socially Contingent Rational Action: Effects of Labor Strikes on Change in Union Founding in the 1880s; COMMENTARIES |
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Evolution and Organizational ScienceProgress and Problems in Population Ecology; Part V: Community Evolution; 16. The Liability of Collective Action: Growth and Change Among Early American Telephone Companies; 17. Density-Independent Selection and Community Evolution; 18. Organization-Environment Coevolution; 19. The Coevolution of Technology and Organization; 20. The Coevolution of Technical and Institutional Events in the Development of an Innovation; COMMENTARIES; The Challenge of Community Evolution; On the Concept of Organizational Community -- References; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H |
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| Summary |
Contributors1. Organizational Hierarchies and Evolutionary Processes: Some Reflections on a Theory of Organizational Evolution, Joel A.C. Baum and Jitendra SinghPart I. Introductory Essays 2. How Individual and Face-to-Face-Group Selection Undermine Firm Selection in Organizational Evolution, Donald T. Campbell3. The Evolution of Evolution, James G. MarchPart II. Intraorganizational Evolution 4. An Intraorganizational Ecological Perspective on Managerial Risk Behavior, Performance, and Survival: Individual, Organizational, and Environmental Effects, Robert A. Burgelman and Brian S. Mittman5 |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Organizational change -- Congresses
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Organizational sociology -- Congresses
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Organizational change.
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Organizational sociology.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Singh, Jitendra V
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| ISBN |
9780195358919 |
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0195358910 |
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