Variations in organization science : in honor of Donald T. Campbell /

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Imprint:Thousand Oaks : Sage Publications, c1999.
Description:xii, 452 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/3830923
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Other authors / contributors:Campbell, Donald Thomas, 1916-1996
Baum, Joel A. C.
McKelvey, Bill.
ISBN:0761911251
076191126X
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword
  • Donald T Campbell's Evolving Influence on Organization Science
  • Part 1. Blind-Variation-Selection-and-Retention
  • The Accidental Entrepreneur
  • Campbellian Antinomies and Organizational Foundings
  • Interorganizational Imitation
  • A Hidden Engine of Selection
  • Types of Variation in Organizational Populations
  • The Speciation of New Organizational Forms
  • Blind (but not Unconditioned) Variation
  • Problems of Copying in Sociocultural Evolution
  • Selection Processes inside Organizations
  • The Self-Reinforcing Consequences of Success
  • Part 2. Multilevel Coevolution
  • Whole-Part Coevolutionary Competition in Organizations
  • Venture Capital Dynamics and the Creation of Variation through Entrepreneurship
  • Suborganizational Evolution in the US Pharmaceutical Industry
  • On the Complexity of Technological Evolution
  • Exploring Coevolution Within and Across Hierarchical Levels in Optical Disc Technology
  • Evolution in a Nested Hierarchy
  • A Geneology of Twin Cities Health Care Organizations 1853-1995
  • Part 3. Process Level Analysis and Modeling
  • Static and Dynamic Variation and Firm Outcomes
  • Organizations as Networks of Actions
  • Evolutionary Models of Local Interaction
  • A Computational Perspective
  • Self-Organization, Complexity Catastrophe and Microstate Models at the Edge of Chaos
  • Part 4. Methodology and Epistemology
  • Donald T Campbell's Methodological Contributions to Organization Science
  • What Can Management Researchers Learn from Donald T Campbell, the Philosopher? An Exercise in Hermeneutics
  • Toward a Campbellian Realist Organization Science