Variations in Organization Science

In Honor of Donald T Campbell
1. Auflage 1999
ISBN: 978-0-7619-1125-8
Verlag: Sage Publications, Inc

Buch, Englisch, 464 Seiten, Format (B × H): 183 mm x 260 mm, Gewicht: 1064 g

In my judgment this book in honor of Donald T. Campbell will be very influential and highly cited. It will become a must read for Ph.D. students and scholars in strategy and organization theory. —Arie Lewin, Duke University "The topics in this volume are cutting edge, and the contributors are first-rate. The book is well anchored—Donald T. Campbell has had a profound influence on the field. Moreover, the book is well-conceptualized—socio-cultural evolution, co-evolution, methods modeling, and epistemology are key issues in organization science right now. —Michael Tushman, Harvard University If he were an assistant professor today, what would social science giant Donald T. Campbell be pursuing in the field of organization science? Joel A. C. Baum and Bill McKelvey explore this question in Variations in Organization Science. This volume reveals and celebrates Campbell's many contributions to organization science by presenting new variations that stem directly from his work. Rather than analyze Campbell's theories, the authors present ideas that Campbell might have pursued if he were currently a doctoral student. This volume is unique in its focus on coevolution and multilevel coevolutionary analysis, as well as in its range of subject matter from empirical studies to leading-edge epistemological discourses. Each of the book's four main sections focuses on a major aspect of Campbell's legacy: blind variation, selection, and retention; multilevel coevolution; process level analysis and modeling; and epistemology and methodology. In addition, the volume includes a Foreward by Barbara Frankel Campbell and an unusual Appendix: Donald Campbell's complete curriculum vitae. Variations in Organization Science should be on the top of the reading list for any organization scientist interested in organizational evolution, change, and competitiveness. This volume will also appeal to any scholar interested in the human and social capital base of firms and how organizational knowledge and learning work to provide the basis of competitive advantage.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Baum, Joel A. C.

McKelvey, Bill

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management Unternehmensorganisation & Entwicklungsstrategien
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse Behaviourismus
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Organisationstheorie, Organisationssoziologie, Organisationspsychologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword - Barbara Frankel Campbell
Donald T Campbell's Evolving Influence on Organization Science - Bill McKelvey and Joel A C Baum
PART ONE: BLIND-VARIATION-SELECTION-AND-RETENTION
The Accidental Entrepreneur - Howard E Aldrich and Amy L Kenworthy
Campbellian Antinomies and Organizational Foundings
Interorganizational Imitation - Anne S Miner and Sri V Raghavan
A Hidden Engine of Selection
Types of Variation in Organizational Populations - Hayagreeva Rao and Jitendra V Singh
The Speciation of New Organizational Forms
Blind (but not Unconditioned) Variation - Elaine Romanelli
Problems of Copying in Sociocultural Evolution
Selection Processes inside Organizations - Danny Miller
The Self-Reinforcing Consequences of Success
PART TWO: MULTILEVEL COEVOLUTION
Whole-Part Coevolutionary Competition in Organizations - Joel A C Baum
Venture Capital Dynamics and the Creation of Variation through Entrepreneurship - Philip Anderson
Suborganizational Evolution in the US Pharmaceutical Industry - Paul Ingram and Peter W Roberts
On the Complexity of Technological Evolution - Lori Rosenkopf and Atul Nerkar
Exploring Coevolution Within and Across Hierarchical Levels in Optical Disc Technology
Evolution in a Nested Hierarchy - Andrew H Van de Ven and David N Grazman
A Geneology of Twin Cities Health Care Organizations 1853-1995
PART THREE: PROCESS LEVEL ANALYSIS AND MODELING
Static and Dynamic Variation and Firm Outcomes - Tammy L Madsen, Elaine Mosakowski and Srilata Zaheer
Organizations as Networks of Actions - Brian T Pentland
Evolutionary Models of Local Interaction - Alessandro Lomi and Erik R Larsen
A Computational Perspective
Self-Organization, Complexity Catastrophe and Microstate Models at the Edge of Chaos - Bill McKelvey
PART FOUR: METHODOLOGY AND EPISTEMOLOGY
Donald T Campbell's Methodological Contributions to Organization Science - Martin G Evans
What Can Management Researchers Learn from Donald T Campbell, the Philosopher? An Exercise in Hermeneutics - Margaretha Hendrickx
Toward a Campbellian Realist Organization Science - Bill McKelvey

Über Autor(innen)

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