Variations in Organization Science: In Honor of Donald T Campbell / Edition 1

by Joel A.C. Baum, Bill McKelvey

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780761911265
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	05/14/1999
Pages:	464
Product dimensions:	8.25(w) x 11.00(h) x 0.94(d)

About the Author

Bill Mc Kelvey 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 Mc Kelvey 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).

Table of Contents

Foreword - Barbara Frankel Campbell
Donald T Campbell's Evolving Influence on Organization Science - Bill Mc Kelvey 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 Mc Kelvey
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 Mc Kelvey

Editorial Reviews

Papers in honor of an important influence in social science celebrate his contributions to the field by presenting new variations that stem directly from his work. Rather than analyzing Campbell's work, chapter authors pursue additional implications and further applications of his perspective to organization science. Papers are grouped in sections on blind-variation-selection-and-retention, multilevel coevolution, process-level analysis and modeling, and methodology and epistemology. Topics include organizational selection processes, static and dynamic variation and firm outcomes, and organizations as networks of actions. Ppaer edition (unseen), $39.95. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknew.com)

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