The Case for Corporate Demography -- About Organizations -- Aging and Learning -- Inertia and Change -- Competitive Intensity -- Global Competition -- Historical Efficiency -- Employment and Entrepreneurship -- A Look Ahead -- The Demographic Perspective -- Demography of Business Organizations -- Organizing Principles of Demography -- Formal Demography and Population Studies -- Demographic Explanation -- The Demography of the Work Force -- Internal Organizational Demography -- Toward a Corporate Demography -- Earlier Efforts -- Retaining the Classical Structure -- Making Demography Organizational -- A Research Strategy -- Forms and Populations -- Population versus Form -- Identity and Form -- Codes -- Organizational Forms -- Organizational Populations -- Systems of Forms -- Implications for Corporate Demography -- Methods of Corporate Demography -- Observation Plans -- Designs in Organizational Research -- Trade-offs in Observation Plans -- Impact of Observation Plans -- Analyzing Vital Rates -- Event-History Designs -- Stochastic-Process Models -- Life-Table Estimation -- Constant-Rate Models -- Modeling Corporate Vital Rates -- Duration Dependence -- Dependence on Covariates -- Note on Left Truncation -- Comparing Designs by Simulation -- Simulation Findings -- Demographic Data Sources -- Criteria for Evaluating Sources -- Commonly Used Sources -- Using Multiple Sources -- Data Realities -- Population Processes -- Organizational Environments -- Telephone Companies -- Modeling Environments
Summary
"In this book, Carroll and Hannan demonstrate why demographic research on corporations is important; describe how to conduct demographic research; specify fruitful areas of future research; and suggest how the demographic perspective can enrich the public discussion of issues surrounding the corporation in our constantly evolving industrial society. All researchers and analysts with an interest in this topic will find The Demography of Corporations and Industries an invaluable resource."--Jacket
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 453-479) and index
