Variations in Organization Science

Bill McKelvey received his Ph.D. from MIT in 1967 and is currently Professor of StrategicOrganizing and Complexity Science at the UCLA. His book, Organizational Systematics (1982) remains the definitive treatmentof organizational evolution and taxonomy. In 1997 he became Director of theCenter for Rescuing Strategy and Organization Science (SOS). He was a founderof UCLA’s Center for Human Complex Systems & Computational Social Science.Recently McKelvey co-edited Variations inOrganization Science (1999) and a special issue of the journal, Emergence. Forthcoming book is: ComplexityDynamics in Organizations: Applications of Order-Creation Science(Cambridge University Press).

• Foreword - Barbara Frankel CampbellDonald T Campbell′s Evolving Influence on Organization Science - Bill McKelvey and Joel A C BaumPART ONE: BLIND-VARIATION-SELECTION-AND-RETENTIONThe Accidental Entrepreneur - Howard E Aldrich and Amy L KenworthyCampbellian Antinomies and Organizational FoundingsInterorganizational Imitation - Anne S Miner and Sri V RaghavanA Hidden Engine of SelectionTypes of Variation in Organizational Populations - Hayagreeva Rao and Jitendra V SinghThe Speciation of New Organizational FormsBlind (but not Unconditioned) Variation - Elaine RomanelliProblems of Copying in Sociocultural EvolutionSelection Processes inside Organizations - Danny MillerThe Self-Reinforcing Consequences of SuccessPART TWO: MULTILEVEL COEVOLUTIONWhole-Part Coevolutionary Competition in Organizations - Joel A C BaumVenture Capital Dynamics and the Creation of Variation through Entrepreneurship - Philip AndersonSuborganizational Evolution in the US Pharmaceutical Industry - Paul Ingram and Peter W RobertsOn the Complexity of Technological Evolution - Lori Rosenkopf and Atul NerkarExploring Coevolution Within and Across Hierarchical Levels in Optical Disc TechnologyEvolution in a Nested Hierarchy - Andrew H Van de Ven and David N GrazmanA Geneology of Twin Cities Health Care Organizations 1853-1995PART THREE: PROCESS LEVEL ANALYSIS AND MODELINGStatic and Dynamic Variation and Firm Outcomes - Tammy L Madsen, Elaine Mosakowski and Srilata ZaheerOrganizations as Networks of Actions - Brian T PentlandEvolutionary Models of Local Interaction - Alessandro Lomi and Erik R LarsenA Computational PerspectiveSelf-Organization, Complexity Catastrophe and Microstate Models at the Edge of Chaos - Bill McKelveyPART FOUR: METHODOLOGY AND EPISTEMOLOGYDonald T Campbell′s Methodological Contributions to Organization Science - Martin G EvansWhat Can Management Researchers Learn from Donald T Campbell, the Philosopher? An Exercise in Hermeneutics - Margaretha HendrickxToward a Campbellian Realist Organization Science - Bill McKelvey