Variations in Organization Science: In Honor of Donald T Campbell [Hardcover]

Variations in Organization Science celebrates Donald T Campbell's many contributions to organization science, presenting new variations which stem directly from his work.Contributing authors review and extend Campbell's theories in four major areas: blind variation, selection and retention especially inside firms; multilevel co-evolution in organizational parts and wholes; process level analysis and modeling epistemology and methodology.The book includes an unusual appendix, Donald T Campbell's curriculum vitae.Variations in Organization Science celebrates Donald T Campbell's many contributions to organization science, presenting new variations which stem directly from his work.Contributing authors review and extend Campbell's theories in four major areas: blind variation, selection and retention especially inside firms; multilevel co-evolution in organizational parts and wholes; process level analysis and modeling epistemology and methodology.The book includes an unusual appendix, Donald T Campbell's curriculum vitae.Foreword - Barbara Frankel Campbell
Donald T Campbell's Evolving Influence on Organization Science - Bill McKelvey and Joel A C Baum
PART ONE: BLIND-VARIATION-SELECTION-AND-RETENTION
The Accidental Entrepreneur - Howard E Aldrich and Amy L Kenworthy
Campbellian Antinomies and Organizational Foundings
Interorganizational Imitation - Anne S Miner and Sri V Raghavan
A Hidden Engine of Selection
Types of Variation in Organizational Populations - Hayagreeva Rao and Jitendra V Singh
The Speciation of New Organizational Forms
Blind (but not Unconditioned) Variation - Elaine Romanelli
Problems of Copying in Sociocultural Evolution
Selection Processes inside Organizations - Danny Miller
The Self-Reinforcing Consequences of Success
PART TWO: MULTILEVEL COEVOLUTION