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Record Nr.

UNINA9910480234703321

Titolo

Variations in organization science [[electronic resource] ] : in honor of Donald T. Campbell / / Joel A.C. Baum and Bill McKelvey, editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Thousand Oaks, Calif. ; ; London, : SAGE, c1999

ISBN

1-4522-3953-3

1-322-41332-0

1-4522-2168-5

0-7619-1126-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (465 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

CampbellDonald T <1916-1996.> (Donald Thomas)

BaumJoel A. C

McKelveyBill

Disciplina

302.35

Soggetti

Organization

Organizational behavior

Organizational sociology

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1 - Donald T. Campbell's Evolving Influence on Organization Science; Part I - Blind-Variations-Selection-and-Retention; Chapter 2 - The Accidental Entrepreneur: Campbellian Antinomies and Organizational Foundings; Chapter 3 - Interorganizational Imitation: A Hidden Engine of Selection; Chapter 4 - Types of Variation in Organizational Populations: The Speciation of New Organizational Forms; Chapter 5 - Blind (But not Unconditioned) Variation: Problems of Copying in Sociocultural Evolution

Chapter 6 - Selection Processes Inside Organizations: The Self-Reinforcing Consequences of SuccessPart II - Multilevel Coevolution; Chapter 7 - Whole-Part Coevolutionary Competition in Organizations; Chapter 8 - Venture Capital Dynamics and the Creation of Variation through Entrepreneurship; Chapter 9 - Suborganizational Evolution in the U.S. Pharmaceutical Industry; Chapter 10 - On the Complexity of



Technological Evolution: Exploring Coevolution within and across Hierarchical Levels in Optical Disc Technology

Chapter 11 - Evolution in a Nested Hierarchy: A Genealogy of Twin Cities Health Care Organizations, 1853-1995Part III - Process-Level Analysis and Modeling; Chapter 12 - Static & Dynamic Variation and Firm Outcomes; Chapter 13 - Organizations as Networks of Actions; Chapter 14 - Evolutionary Models of Local Interaction: A Computational Perspective; Chapter 15 - Self-Organization, Complexity Catastrophe, and Microstate Models at the Edge of Chaos; Part IV - Methodology and Epistemology; Chapter 16 - Donald T. Campbell's Methodological Contributions to Organization Science

Chapter 17 - What Can Management Researchers Learn from Donald T. Campbell, the Philosopher? An Exercise in HermeneuticsChapter 18 - Toward a Campbellian Realist Organization Science; Appendix - Donald T. Campbell's Curriculum Vitae; Author Index; Subject Index; About the Contributors

Sommario/riassunto

The essays in this volume celebrate Donald T. Campbell's many contributions to organisation science, and present new variations which stem directly from his work.