Organizations and Environments (Paperback, 2nd edition)

When "Organizations and Environments" was originally issued in 1979, it increased interest in evolutionary explanations of organizational change. Since then, scholars and practitioners have widely cited the book for its innovative answer to this question: Under what conditions do organizations change?
Aldrich achieves theoretical integration across 13 chapters by using an evolutionary model that captures the essential features of relations between organizations and their environments. This model explains organizational change by focusing on the processes of variation, selection, retention, and struggle. The "environment," as conceived by Aldrich, does not refer simply to elements "out there"--beyond a set of focal organizations--but rather to concentrations of resources, power, political domination, and most concretely, other organizations.
Scholars using Aldrich's model have examined the societal context within which founders create organizations and whether those organizations survive or fail, rise to prominence, or sink into obscurity.
A preface to the reprinted edition frames the utility of this classic for tomorrow's researchers and businesspeople.

General

Imprint:	Stanford University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Stanford Business Classics
Release date:	October 2007
First published:	2007
Authors:	Howard E. Aldrich
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 28mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade / Trade
Pages:	416
Edition:	2nd edition
ISBN-13:	978-0-8047-5829-1
Categories:	Books > Business & Economics > Business & management > Ownership & organization of enterprises > General Books > Business & Economics > Business & management > Management & management techniques > Organizational theory & behaviour Promotions
LSN:	0-8047-5829-8
Barcode:	9780804758291

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