Evolutionary dynamics of organizations / edited by Joel A.C. Baum, Jitendra V. Singh.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Baum, Joel A. C., editor.

Singh, Jitendra V., 1925- editor.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Organizational change--Congresses.

Organizational change.

Organizational sociology--Congresses.

Organizational sociology.

Physical Description:

xvi, 501 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book presents the latest research and theory about organizational evolutionary change. It brings together the work of organization theorists who have played key roles in challenging the orthodox adaptation views that prevailed until the beginning of the 1980s. Joel A.C. Baum and JitendraV. Singh emphasize hierarchy of evolutionary processes at the intraorganizational level, the organizational level, the population level, and the community level. Derived from a conference held at the Stern School of Business at New York University, Evolutionary Dynamics of Organizations is organizedin a way that gives order and coherence to what has been a diverse and multidisciplinary field.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

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

6. Organizing for Continuous Improvement: Evolutionary Theory Meets the Quality Revolution

COMMENTARIES

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

Taking on Strategy, 1-2-3

On Behalf of Naïveté

Part 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

Evolution and Organizational Science.

Progress 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

The Challenge of Community Evolution

On the Concept of "Organizational Community

References

Index

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Notes:

Papers presented at a conference held at the Stern School of Business, New York University, in Jan. 1992.

Previously issued in print: 1994.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 457-489) and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

0-19-770289-9

1-280-52712-9

0-19-535891-0

1-4294-0581-3

OCLC:

935260467