| Description |
xiv, 330 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
1. Introduction and Themes -- Our goals for this book -- Organizations: an overview -- 2. The Evolutionary Approach -- Evolutionary processes -- Research illustration 2.1: The evolution of bureaucracy -- Research design in evolutionary analysis -- 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 -- 4. Entrepreneurs and the Emergence of New Organizations -- Disputes over the definition of entrepreneurship -- $tNascent 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 |
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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 -- 9. Emergence of New Populations of Organizations -- Definitions: populations, learning, and legitimacy -- Forms of learning and legitimacy -- Cognitive strategies -- Sociopolitical legitimacy strategies -- 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 -- 11. Community Evolution -- Definitions: changing conception of community -- Relations between populations -- How do organizational communities form? -- Legitimacy and collective action -- Appendix. Research Design and Evolutionary Analysis -- Overview of research illustrations -- Strengths and weaknesses of non-experimental research designs |
| Summary |
In this authoritative exploration of contemporary organisations and the ways they mirror their environment, Howard Aldrich and Martin Ruef chart the development of organisational forms, as well as assessing the impact on these of external innovations |
| Notes |
Previous ed.: 1999 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [271]-316) and indexes |
| Subject |
Associations, institutions, etc.
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Comparative organization.
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Organizational behavior.
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Organizational change.
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| Author |
Ruef, Martin.
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| ISBN |
1412910463 (hbk.) |
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1412910471 (paperback) |
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9781412910460 (hbk.) |
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9781412910477 (paperback) |
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