Evolutionary Dynamics of Organizations

by Baum, Joel A.C.; Singh, Jitendra V.

• ISBN13: 9780195085846
• ISBN10: 0195085841
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1994-03-31
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

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 Jitendra V. 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 organized in a way that gives order and coherence to what has been a diverse and multidisciplinary field.

Table of Contents

Contributors

Organizational Hierarchies and Evolutionary Processes: Some Reflections on a Theory of Organizational Evolution

Introductory Essays

How Individual and Face-to-Face-Group Selection Undermine Firm Selection in Organizational Evolution

The Evolution of Evolution

Intraorganizational Evolution

An Intraorganizational Ecological Perspective on Managerial Risk Behavior, Performance, and Survival: Individual, Organizational, and Environmental Effects

Seeking Adaptive Advantage: Evolutionary Theory and Managerial Action

Organizing for Continuous Improvement: Evolutionary Theory Meets the Quality Revolution

Commentaries

Organizational Evolution

Evolutionary Processes and Patterns of Core Business Change

The Ecological Dynamics of Organizational Change: Density and Mass Dependence in Rates of Entry into New Markets

Surviving Schumpeterian Environments: An Evolutionary Perspective

Mimetic Learning and the Evolution of Organizational Populations

Commentaries

Population Evolution

Minimalism, Mutalism, and Maturity: The Evolution of the American Trade Association Population in the 20th Century

Disruptive Selection and Population Segmentation: Interpopulation Competition as a Segregation Process

Externalities and Ecological Theory: Unbundling Density Dependence

Resource Partitioning and Foundings of Banking Cooperatives in Italy

The Evolution of Socially Contingent Rational Action: Effects of Labor Strikes on CHange in Union Founding in the 1880s

Community Evolution

The Liability of Collective Action: Growth and Change Among Early American Telephone Companies

Density-Independent Selection and Community Evolution, ack

Organization-Environment Coevolution

The Coevolution of Technology and Organization

The Coevolution of Technical and Institutional Events in the Development of an Innovation

Commentaries

References

Index

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