From beginning to end, Organizations & Environments focuses on a central unifying theme: organizational change through an evolutionary perspective. Each chapter deals with a different aspect of the question "under what conditions do organizations change?" It captures the essential features of sociology's concern for the relationship between business policy and society.

Organizations and Environments

Politics & Social Sciences

Aldrich, Howard E.

Social Sciences

PRENTICE/HALL

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.

Organizations and Environments (Stanford Business Classics)

Business & Money

Management & Leadership

Stanford Business Books

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.\nKey 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.</il> 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: Third Edition

Ruef, Martin

Lippmann, Stephen

Sociology

Edward Elgar Publishing

Organizations Evolvingoffers 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: <ul> <li>A sophisticated analytic comparison of six major approaches to understanding modern organizations and their evolution</li> <li>An interdisciplinary focus, drawing extensively from sociology, social psychology, economics, history, management and entrepreneurship research</li> <li>Supplementary materials from academic journals and the popular press, and multi-media resources in an online companion</li> <li>Extensive case examples that illustrate key evolutionary processes</li> <li>Study questions designed for extended and reflective learning.</li> </ul> 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.

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