Evolutionary Dynamics of Organizations [Paperback]

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

Contributors
1. Organizational Hierarchies and Evolutionary Processes: Some Reflections on a Theory of Organizational Evolution,Joel A. C. Baum and Jitendra Singh
Part I. Introductory Essays
2. How Individual and Face-to-Face-Group Selection Undermine Firm Selection in Organizational Evolution,Donald T. Campbell
3. The Evolution of Evolution,James G. March
Part II. Intraorganizational Evolution
4. An Intraorganizational Ecological Perspective on Managerial Risk Behavior, Performance, and Survival: Individual, Organizational, and Environmental Effects,Robert A. Burgelman and Brian S. Mittman
5. Seeking Adaptive Advantage: Evolutionary Theory and Managerial Action,Anne S. Minor
6. Organizing for Continuous Improvement: Evolutionary Theory Meets the Quality Revolution,Sidney G. Winter
Commentaries
Part III. Organizational Evolution
7. Evolutionary Processes and Patterns of Core Business Change,Ari Ginsberg and Joel A. C. Baum
8. The Ecological Dynamics of Organizational Change: Density and Mass Dependence in Rates of Entry into New Markets,Heather A. Haveman
9. Surviving Schumpeterian Environments: An Evolutionary Persl£5