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Variations in Organization Science
In Honor of Donald T Campbell
- Joel A. C. Baum - University of Toronto, Canada
- Bill McKelvey - UCLA, USA
July 1999 | 464 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
`Given the currency of the issues and the status of the contributors, this book will be an important foundational source for faculty and doctoral students in the organizations sciences' - Michael Tushman, Harvard University
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 modelling epistemology and methodology.
The book includes an unusual appendix, Donald T Campbell's curriculum vitae.
Barbara Frankel Campbell
Foreword
Bill McKelvey and Joel A C Baum
Donald T Campbell's Evolving Influence on Organization Science
PART ONE: BLIND-VARIATION-SELECTION-AND-RETENTION
Howard E Aldrich and Amy L Kenworthy
The Accidental Entrepreneur
Anne S Miner and Sri V Raghavan
Interorganizational Imitation
Hayagreeva Rao and Jitendra V Singh
Types of Variation in Organizational Populations
Elaine Romanelli
Blind (but not Unconditioned) Variation
Danny Miller
Selection Processes inside Organizations
PART TWO: MULTILEVEL COEVOLUTION
Joel A C Baum
Whole-Part Coevolutionary Competition in Organizations
Philip Anderson
Venture Capital Dynamics and the Creation of Variation through Entrepreneurship
Paul Ingram and Peter W Roberts
Suborganizational Evolution in the US Pharmaceutical Industry
Lori Rosenkopf and Atul Nerkar
On the Complexity of Technological Evolution
Andrew H Van de Ven and David N Grazman
Evolution in a Nested Hierarchy
PART THREE: PROCESS LEVEL ANALYSIS AND MODELING
Tammy L Madsen, Elaine Mosakowski and Srilata Zaheer
Static and Dynamic Variation and Firm Outcomes
Brian T Pentland
Organizations as Networks of Actions
Alessandro Lomi and Erik R Larsen
Evolutionary Models of Local Interaction
Bill McKelvey
Self-Organization, Complexity Catastrophe and Microstate Models at the Edge of Chaos
PART FOUR: METHODOLOGY AND EPISTEMOLOGY
Martin G Evans
Donald T Campbell's Methodological Contributions to Organization Science
Margaretha Hendrickx
What Can Management Researchers Learn from Donald T Campbell, the Philosopher? An Exercise in Hermeneutics
Bill McKelvey
Toward a Campbellian Realist Organization Science