Organizations and Environments - Couverture souple

Aldrich, Howard E.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0804758298 ISBN 13 : 9780804758291

Editeur : Stanford Business Books,US, 2007

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Howard E. Aldrich is Professor of Sociology and Adjunct Professor of Management in the Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Stanford Business Books,US
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0804758298
• ISBN 13: 9780804758291
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 2
• Nombre de pages: 416
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible