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 -- COMMENTARIES -- 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 -- COMMENTARIES -- 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 -- COMMENTARIES -- The Challenge of Community Evolution -- On the Concept of "Organizational Community" -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.