Organizations Evolving.
Title:
Organizations Evolving.
Author:
Aldrich, Howard.
ISBN:
9781849202084
Personal Author:
Edition:
2nd ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (350 pages)
Contents:
Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- Preface to the Second Edition -- Preface to the First Edition -- 1 Introduction and Themes -- Our goals for this book -- Organizations: an overview -- Plan of the book -- Study questions -- Exercises -- 2 The Evolutionary Approach -- Evolutionary processes -- Research illustration 2.1: The evolution of bureaucracy -- Research design in evolutionary analysis -- Conclusions -- Study questions -- Exercises -- 3 How the Evolutionary Approach Relates to Other Approaches -- The ecological approach -- The institutional approach -- The interpretive approach -- The organizational learning approach -- The resource dependence approach -- The transaction cost economizing approach -- Summary: the six perspectives -- Conclusions -- Study questions -- Exercise -- 4 Entrepreneurs and the Emergence of New Organizations -- Disputes over the definition of entrepreneurship -- Nascent entrepreneurs and innovation -- The social network context -- Research illustration 4.1: The structure of founding teams -- Knowledge: types, origins, and uses -- Employees, capital, and other resources -- Conclusions -- Study questions -- Exercise -- 5 Organizational Boundaries -- Boundary crossing is a way of life: matching organizations and members -- Two models of organizational coherence: users and supporters -- Constructing members -- Evolution of organizational role structures -- Organizational reward and control systems -- Conclusions -- Study questions -- Exercise -- 6 Organizational Forms -- Views of organizational forms -- Research illustration 6.1: Routines as a foundation for organizational forms -- Organizational forms and the interdependence of members' schemata -- Construction's consequences: organizational culture -- Conclusions -- Study questions -- Exercises.
7 Organizational Transformation -- Explaining transformation at the organizational level -- Evolutionary explanations at the organizational level -- Examining the three dimensions of transformation -- The extent of member participation in transformation activities -- Consequences of transformation -- Conclusions -- Study questions -- Exercise -- 8 Organizations and Social Change -- The life cycle metaphor: developmental and stage models -- Non life cycle models: teleological and dialectical -- Three components of an historical framework -- Research illustration 8.1: Elite recruitment and social change in China -- Conclusions -- Study questions -- Exercise -- 9 Emergence of New Populations of Organizations -- Definitions: populations, learning, and legitimacy -- Forms of learning and legitimacy -- Cognitive strategies -- Sociopolitical legitimacy strategies -- Conclusions -- Study questions -- Exercises -- 10 Reproducing Populations: Foundings and Disbandings -- Definitions: rates of organizational foundings and disbandings -- Intra-population conditions -- Density dependence -- Facilitating effects of increasing density -- Inhibiting effects of increasing density -- Lagged effects -- Segregating processes -- Carrying capacity -- Research illustration 10.1: Population processes and legislative outcomes -- Conclusions -- Study questions -- Exercises -- 11 Community Evolution -- Definitions: changing conception of community -- Relations between populations -- How do organizational communities form? -- Legitimacy and collective action -- Conclusions -- Study questions -- Exercises -- Appendix: Research Design and Evolutionary Analysis -- Overview of research illustrations -- Strengths and weaknesses of non-experimental research designs -- References -- Author Index -- Subject Index.
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 anticipated Second Edition of an award winning classic, Organizations Evolving presents a sophisticated evolutionary view of key organizational paradigms that will give readers a unified understanding of modern organizations. This Second Edition is an up-to-date survey of the literature, as well as an overview of the new developments across organization studies. It contains new sections on organizational forms, community evolution and methods for studying organizations at multiple levels. The field of organization studies contains many contending paradigms that often puzzle and perplex students. This book is a stunning synthesis of the major organizational paradigms under the umbrella of organizational theory. Scholars and students will find it an excellent guide to the strengths and weaknesses of the various approaches, as well as an outstanding review of the best recent empirical research on organizations. The book includes many helpful features, such as: - Review questions and exercises that will consolidate reader's learning - A methodological appendix that assesses common research methods - Engaging cases that bring principles and concepts to life This Second Edition is a rich resource for study, discussion and debate amongst organizational scholars and
postgraduate students of organizations.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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