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

• Pubblicazione: Thousand Oaks, Calif. ; ; London, : SAGE, c1999
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xii, 452 p.) : ill
• Disciplina: 302.35
• Soggetto topico: Organization; Organizational behavior; Organizational sociology
• Altri autori: CampbellDonald T <1916-1996.> (Donald Thomas) BaumJoel A. C McKelveyBill
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Variations in organization science
• ISBN: 1-4522-3953-3; 1-322-41332-0; 1-4522-2168-5; 0-7619-1126-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910779367903321
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