Variations in Organization Science - In Honor of Donald T Campbell

Variations in Organization Science celebrates Donald T Campbell's many contributions to organization science, presenting new variations which stem directly from his work.Contributing authors review and extend Campbell's theories in four major areas: blind variation, selection and retention especially inside firms; multilevel co-evolution in organizational parts and wholes; process level analysis and modeling epistemology and methodology. The book includes an unusual appendix, Donald T Campbell's curriculum vitae.

List of contents

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

About the author

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, Variations in
Organization Science (1999) and a special issue of the journal,

Product details

Authors	Joel Baum, Joel A. Baum, Joel A. C. Baum, Donald T. Campbell, Bill McKelvey
Assisted by	Joel Baum (Editor), Bill McKelvey (Editor)
Publisher	SAGE Publications, Inc
Languages	English
Product format	Hardback
Released	21.05.1999
EAN	9780761911258
ISBN	978-0-7619-1125-8
No. of pages	466
Dimensions	183 mm x 260 mm x 29 mm
Weight	1064 g
Subjects	Guides > Law, job, finance; Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Applied psychology; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Miscellaneous

Product details

• Authors: Joel Baum, Joel A. Baum, Joel A. C. Baum, Donald T. Campbell, Bill McKelvey
• Assisted by: Joel Baum (Editor), Bill McKelvey (Editor)
• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.05.1999
• EAN: 9780761911258
• ISBN: 978-0-7619-1125-8
• No. of pages: 466
• Dimensions: 183 mm x 260 mm x 29 mm
• Weight: 1064 g
• Subjects: Guides > Law, job, finance; Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Applied psychology; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Miscellaneous