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Organizations Evolving offers a unique theoretical framework for
understanding organizational emergence, persistence, change, and
decline. Synthesizing and integrating six paradigmatic approaches
to organization theory, this updated and revised third edition
presents an evolutionary view that provides a unified understanding
of modern organizations and organization theory. Key features of
the third edition include: A sophisticated analytic comparison of
six major approaches to understanding modern organizations and
their evolution An interdisciplinary focus, drawing extensively
from sociology, social psychology, economics, history, management
and entrepreneurship research Supplementary materials from academic
journals and the popular press, and multi-media resources in an
online companion Extensive case examples that illustrate key
evolutionary processes Study questions designed for extended and
reflective learning. Offering key insights and critical learning
opportunities, this book is crucial reading for classes covering
macro-organizational behaviour and the sociology of organizations.
Students of management studies and entrepreneurship, particularly
those with a focus on organization theory, will also benefit from
its interdisciplinary approach.
Organizations Evolving offers a unique theoretical framework for
understanding organizational emergence, persistence, change, and
decline. Synthesizing and integrating six paradigmatic approaches
to organization theory, this updated and revised third edition
presents an evolutionary view that provides a unified understanding
of modern organizations and organization theory. Key features of
the third edition include: A sophisticated analytic comparison of
six major approaches to understanding modern organizations and
their evolution An interdisciplinary focus, drawing extensively
from sociology, social psychology, economics, history, management
and entrepreneurship research Supplementary materials from academic
journals and the popular press, and multi-media resources in an
online companion Extensive case examples that illustrate key
evolutionary processes Study questions designed for extended and
reflective learning. Offering key insights and critical learning
opportunities, this book is crucial reading for classes covering
macro-organizational behaviour and the sociology of organizations.
Students of management studies and entrepreneurship, particularly
those with a focus on organization theory, will also benefit from
its interdisciplinary approach.
The second of two volumes bringing together researchers from an
array of disciplines including sociology, organization theory,
strategy, and organizational behaviour, Entrepreneurialism and
Society: Consequences and Meanings addresses the question of how
entrepreneurship has transformed from an organizing activity into
an ideology that is changing society. The authors investigate how
the transformed meanings of entrepreneurship are causal in new
social phenomenon such as organizational misconduct and driving
inequality, but also how it may offer a promise to resolve those
issues. Examining into the role of organizations in society,
Entrepreneurialism and Society invigorates academic research by
developing new perspectives on how entrepreneurs and their
organizations shape our social world.
This much-needed book draws together Howard Aldrich's key
contribution to entrepreneurship research over recent decades. In
an original introduction, the author first lays out the
evolutionary approach, examining the assumptions and principles of
'selection logic' that drive evolutionary explanations. The book
then expands on evolutionary theory as applied to entrepreneurship,
emphasizing the role of historical and comparative analysis before
focusing on the importance of social networks, particularly as they
affect the genesis of entrepreneurial teams. Professor Aldrich
takes a strategic approach to the creation of new organizational
populations and communities, using examples from the
commercialization of the Internet and the collapse of the Internet
bubble. The book then presents his contributions to gender and
family, offering a 'family embeddedness' perspective before
focusing on the implications of entrepreneurship for stratification
and inequality in modern societies, combining an evolutionary with
a life course perspective. Finally, he concludes the book with
another original essay, reflecting on future directions for
entrepreneurship research. This mix of groundbreaking papers that
introduced new concepts into the entrepreneurship literature will
prove invaluable to scholars - graduate students and faculty
members - interested in research on entrepreneurship. Professors of
entrepreneurship and strategy as well as academics teaching
organizational sociology courses will also find plenty of
invaluable information in this important resource.
This much-needed book draws together Howard Aldrich's key
contribution to entrepreneurship research over recent decades. In
an original introduction, the author first lays out the
evolutionary approach, examining the assumptions and principles of
'selection logic' that drive evolutionary explanations. The book
then expands on evolutionary theory as applied to entrepreneurship,
emphasizing the role of historical and comparative analysis before
focusing on the importance of social networks, particularly as they
affect the genesis of entrepreneurial teams. Professor Aldrich
takes a strategic approach to the creation of new organizational
populations and communities, using examples from the
commercialization of the Internet and the collapse of the Internet
bubble. The book then presents his contributions to gender and
family, offering a 'family embeddedness' perspective before
focusing on the implications of entrepreneurship for stratification
and inequality in modern societies, combining an evolutionary with
a life course perspective. Finally, he concludes the book with
another original essay, reflecting on future directions for
entrepreneurship research. This mix of groundbreaking papers that
introduced new concepts into the entrepreneurship literature will
prove invaluable to scholars - graduate students and faculty
members - interested in research on entrepreneurship. Professors of
entrepreneurship and strategy as well as academics teaching
organizational sociology courses will also find plenty of
invaluable information in this important resource.
The first of two volumes bringing together researchers from an
array of disciplines including sociology, organization theory,
strategy, and organizational behaviour, Entrepreneurialism and
Society: New Theoretical Perspectives addresses the question of how
entrepreneurship has transformed from an organizing activity into
an ideology that is changing society. The authors investigate the
transformation of entrepreneurship into a social phenomenon,
leading to an understanding of how entrepreneurship is shaping the
acceptance of inequality, new employment relationships, changed
understandings of social outcomes, altered policies, and social
precarity. Examining the role of organizations in society,
Entrepreneurialism and Society invigorates academic research by
developing new perspectives on how entrepreneurs and their
organizations shape our social world.
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.
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