ISBN:
1412910463
,
1412910471
,
9781412910460
,
9781412910477
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xiv, 330 p)
,
ill
Edition:
2nd ed
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version Organizations Evolving
DDC:
302.35
Keywords:
Organizational behavior
;
Associations, institutions, etc
;
Comparative organization
;
Organizational change
Abstract:
`Howard Aldrich and Martin Ruef s tour de force shows us how the evolutionary approach can explain change not only in organizational populations, but within sectors and within organizations. Aldrich and Ruef display an astonishing command of the management literature, using vivid illustrations from cutting edge research to show how the processes of variation, selection, retention, and struggle operate within organizations and across them. A lucid and engaging book that should appeal both to the newcomer to organization theory and to the old pro' - Frank Dobbin, Harvard University. A keenly ant
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover ; Copyright ; Contents; List of Tables and Figures; Preface to the Second Edition; Preface to the First Edition; 1 - Introduction and Themes; 2 - The Evolutionary Approach; 3 - How the Evolutionary Approach Relates to Other Approaches; 4 - Entrepreneurs and the Emergence of New Organizations; 5 - Organizational Boundaries; 6 - Organizational Forms; 7 - Organizational Transformation; 8 - Organizations and Social Change; 9 - Emergence of New Populationsof Organizations; 10 - Reproducing Populations: Foundings and Disbandings; APPENDIX: Research Designand Evolutionary Analysis; References
Description / Table of Contents:
Author IndexSubject Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and indexes
,
Previous ed.: 1999
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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