Evolutionary Dynamics of Organizations

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

• Contributors 1: Joel A. C. Baum and Jitendra Singh: Organizational Hierarchies and Evolutionary Processes: Some Reflections on a Theory of Organizational Evolution Part I. Introductory Essays 2: Donald T. Campbell: How Individual and Face-to-Face-Group Selection Undermine Firm Selection in Organizational Evolution 3: James G. March: The Evolution of Evolution Part II. Intraorganizational Evolution 4: Robert A. Burgelman and Brian S. Mittman: An Intraorganizational Ecological Perspective on Managerial Risk Behavior, Performance, and Survival: Individual, Organizational, and Environmental Effects 5: Anne S. Minor: Seeking Adaptive Advantage: Evolutionary Theory and Managerial Action 6: Sidney G. Winter: Organizing for Continuous Improvement: Evolutionary Theory Meets the Quality Revolution Commentaries Part III. Organizational Evolution 7: Ari Ginsberg and Joel A. C. Baum: Evolutionary Processes and Patterns of Core Business Change 8: Heather A. Haveman: The Ecological Dynamics of Organizational Change: Density and Mass Dependence in Rates of Entry into New Markets 9: Daniel A. Levinthal: Surviving Schumpeterian Environments: An Evolutionary Perspective 10: Stephen J. Mezias and Theresa K. Lant: Mimetic Learning and the Evolution of Organizational Populations Commentaries Part IV. Population Evolution 11: Howard E. Aldrich, Catherine R. Zimmer, Udo H. Staber, and John J. Beggs: Minimalism, Mutalism, and Maturity: The Evolution of the American Trade Association Population in the 20th Century 12: Terry L. Amburgey, Tina Dacin, and Dawn Kelly: Disruptive Selection and Population Segmentation: Interpopulation Competition as a Segregation Process 13: Jacques Delacroix and Hayagreeva Rao: Externalities and Ecological Theory: Unbundling Density Dependence 14: John Freeman and Alessandro Lomi: Resource Partitioning and Foundings of Banking Cooperatives in Italy 15: Lynne G. Zucker and Ita G. G. Kreft: The Evolution of Socially Contingent Rational Action: Effects of Labor Strikes on CHange in Union Founding in the 1880s Part V. Community Evolution 16: William P. Barnett: The Liability of Collective Action: Growth and Change Among Early American Telephone Companies 17: ack W. Brittain: Density-Independent Selection and Community Evolution 18: Joel A. C. Baum and Jitendra V. Singh: Organization-Environment Coevolution 19: Lori Rosenkopf and Michael L. Tushman: The Coevolution of Technology and Organization 20: Andrew H. Van de Ven and Raghu Garud: The Coevolution of Technical and Institutional Events in the Development of an Innovation Commentaries References Index