Evolutionary Dynamics of Organizations - Hardcover

Baum, Joel

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0195077369 ISBN 13: 9780195077360

Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc, 1994

Synopsis

This text presents the latest research and theory about evolutionary change in organizations. It brings together the work of organizational theorists who have challenged the orthodox adaptation views that prevailed until the beginning of the 1980s. It emphasizes multiple levels of change distinguishing change at the intraorganizational level, the organizational level, the population level, and the community level. The book is organized in a way intended to give order and coherence to what has been a diverse and multidisciplinary field. (The book had its inception at a conference held at the Stern School of Business, New York University, January 1992.)

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Review

Organizations rise and fall. In between, they change―sometimes negligibly, sometimes gradually, sometimes radically. For the scholar who is interested in understanding the latest thinking on organizational evolution and change, this book is critically important. It presents fresh, insightful pieces from many of the leading thinkers on the topic. We can expect to find the Baum and Singh volume on a lot of desks, and represented in many reference lists, through the rest of the 90's. (Donald C. Hambrick, Columbia University)

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
• Publication date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0195077369
• ISBN 13: 9780195077360
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 518