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.

Business & Money

McKelvey, Bill

Baum, Joel A.C.

Business Culture

Sage Publications, Inc.

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.

This volume is part of a series which seeks to act as a vehicle for the communication of research in strategic management. It contains papers presenting theoretical and/or empirical analysis of strategic problems, comparative and analytical case studies of issues and application of concepts.

Embeddedness of Strategy (Advances in Strategic Management, 13)

Dutton, Jane E.

Management & Leadership

Emerald Publishing Limited

Any system for giving good advice has to maintain a tension between telling the truth and not being heard, on the one hand, and telling what can be heard but is not true, on the other. In such a system, the role of academic researchers is not so much to give advice as it is to generate knowledge and to provide critical commentary on advice that is given. Along the way, an academic tries to counteract the natural tendency of advice givers to become more attentive to the hearing of their clients than to the knowledge underlying what they say. This book is in that tradition. It honors the noble tradition of giving advice on strategic management and organizational learning by exploring some elements of fundamental knowledge that might inform such advice.

Population-Level Learning and Industry Change (Advances in Strategic Management, 16)

Baum

Baum, Glenda

The last several years has witnessed a growing interaction between economists and sociologists engaged in the study of organizations' strategies. Economists and sociologists can gain real insight from these interactions. To date, however, these interactions have been to ad hoc and unfocused to bear any real fruit. This volume moves the discussion to the next level by focusing the discussion, and taking a step toward systematizing some of the relationships between economic and sociological approaches to strategic management. To accomplish this, the volume reprints four 'matched pairs' of influential articles on firms' strategies in economic sociology and strategic management and use these articles to frame a conversation between the articles' pioneering authors and other prominent researchers in strategic management and sociology working on closely-related research problems. Each pair of articles followed by provocative essays - inspired by the pairing - written by the articles' original authors. Two contextualizing commentaries penned by influential strategy and organizations researchers - one grounded in strategic management and one in economic sociology - extend each conversation. A reflective reply from the articles' authors concludes the conversation - for now. A framing introduction and concluding epilogue, written by volume editors Joel Baum and Frank Dobbin, set the stage both for the volume and for future conversations between the disciplines in strategic management.

Economics Meets Sociology in Strategic Management (Advances in Strategic Management, 17)

Economics

Epinets: The Epistemic Structure and Dynamics of Social Networks

Epinets presents a new way to think about social networks, which focuses on the knowledge that underlies our social interactions. Guiding readers through the web of beliefs that networked individuals have about each other and probing into what others think, this book illuminates the deeper character and influence of relationships among social network participants. Drawing on artificial intelligence, the philosophy of language, and epistemic game theory, Moldoveanu and Baum formulate a lexicon and array of conceptual tools that enable readers to explain, predict, and shape the fabric and behavior of social networks. With an innovative and strategically-minded look at the assumptions that enable and clog our networks, this book lays the groundwork for a leap forward in our understanding of human relations.

Moldoveanu, Mihnea C.

Human Resources

Stanford Business Books

Moldoveanu, Mihnea

Oxford University Press

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Variations in Organization Science: In Honor of Donald T Campbell

Variations in Organization Science: In Honor of Donald T Campbell

Embeddedness of Strategy (Advances in Strategic Management, 13)

Population-Level Learning and Industry Change (Advances in Strategic Management, 16)

Economics Meets Sociology in Strategic Management (Advances in Strategic Management, 17)

Epinets: The Epistemic Structure and Dynamics of Social Networks

Epinets: The Epistemic Structure and Dynamics of Social Networks