The Demography of Corporations and Industries / Glenn R. Carroll, Glenn R. Carroll, Michael T. Hannan, Michael T. Hannan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Carroll, Glenn, author.

Hannan, Michael T., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Industrial sociology--Statistical methods.

Industrial sociology.

Demographic surveys--Methodology.

Demographic surveys.

Industrial surveys--Methodology.

Industrial surveys.

Industrial statistics--Methodology.

Industrial statistics.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxix, 490 pages)

Place of Publication:

Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Most analysts of corporations and industries adopt the focal perspective of a single prototypical organization. Many analysts also study corporations primarily in terms of their internal organizational structures or as complex systems of financial contracts. Glenn Carroll and Michael Hannan bring fresh insight to our understanding of corporations and the industries they comprise by looking beyond prototypical structures to focus on the range and diversity of organizations in their social and economic setting. The result is a rich rendering of analysis that portrays whole populations and communities of corporations. The Demography of Corporations and Industries is the first book to present the demographic approach to organizational studies in its entirety. It examines the theory, models, methods, and data used in corporate demographic research. Carroll and Hannan explore the processes by which corporate populations change over time, including organizational founding, growth, decline, structural transformation, and mortality. They review and synthesize the major theoretical mechanisms of corporate demography, ranging from aging and size dependence to population segregation and density dependence. The book also explores some selected implications of corporate demography for public policy, including employment and regulation. In this path-breaking book, Carroll and Hannan demonstrate why demographic research on corporations is important; describe how to conduct demographic research; specify fruitful areas of future research; and suggest how the demographic perspective can enrich the public discussion of issues surrounding the corporation in our constantly evolving industrial society. All researchers and analysts with an interest in this topic will find The Demography of Corporations and Industries an invaluable resource.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Figures

List of Tables

Preface

Acknowledgments

Part I.THE CASE FOR CORPORATE DEMOGRAPHY

1. About Organizations

2. The Demographic Perspective

3. Toward a Corporate Demography

4. Forms and Populations

Part II.METHODS OF CORPORATE DEMOGRAPHY

5. Observation Plans

6. Analyzing Vital Rates

7. Modeling Corporate Vital Rates

8. Demographic Data Sources

Part III. POPULATION PROCESSES

9. Organizational Environments

10. Density-Dependent Processes I

11. Density-Dependent Processes II

12. Segregating Processes

Part IV.ORGANIZATIONAL PROCESSES

13. Age-Dependent Processes

14. Size Dependence

15. Initial Mobilizing

16. Organizational Transformation

Part V.SELECTED IMPLICATIONS

17. Organization Theory

18.Regulation

19. Employment

20. Organizational Diversity

References

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 453-479) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Mai 2019)

ISBN:

9780691186795

0691186790

OCLC:

1132226596