Organizational Evolution: New DirectionsJitendra V. Singh 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. |
Contents
Foreword | 7 |
Patterns | 21 |
Ecological Analysis of Semiconductor Firm Mortality | 53 |
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adaptation Administrative Science Quarterly age dependence Aldrich American Journal analysis autonomous strategic behavior Blau space Burgelman Carroll carrying capacity chapter competence competition Delacroix density at founding density dependence disbanding rates distribution dynamics economic effects of density empirical evolutionary economics evolutionary theory exit exploitation curve failure firms Hannan & Freeman Hannan and Freeman hazard rate heterarchy homophily hypothesis increase individual industry innovation Jitendra Singh Journal of Sociology K-types large organizations legitimacy liability lognormal Meinhard mortality rates national labor unions niche number of organizations odds of disbanding organizational change organizational ecology organizational evolution organizational forms organizational founding organizational mortality organizational populations pattern period perspective population density population ecology predicted rates of change refined risk set resource routines selection processes semiconductor Singh social speciation strategic process structure survival telephone tions trade associations Tucker unit of selection University variables voluntary VSSOs York