Evolutionary Processes And Organizational Adaptation

Author : Daniel A. Levinthal
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192634100
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Evolutionary Processes and Organizational Adaptation written by Daniel A. Levinthal and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-06-26 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do firms adapt? There are two basic starting points from which to answer that question. One is premised on ideas of rational choice and intentionality, while the other is a process of evolutionary dynamics. Both are well-defined and operate as powerful intellectual attractors. Using the ideas of Gregor Mendel as a useful touchstone, this book aims to construct a middle-ground between these two conceptions. The image of the "Mendelian" executive shows how we might effectively balance the ideas of godlike rational design on the one hand and evolutionary dynamics on the other. The perspective developed in this book is anchored on the two key primitives of path-dependence and artificial selection. The intentionality of the Mendelian executive allows for the conscious exploration of opportunities, rather than the happenstance of random variants, yet the constraining forces of path-dependence may lead these moves to adjacent spaces. This perspective also highlights the role of intentionality with respect to the selection and culling of strategic initiatives. The organization operates an “artificial selection” environment, as firms receive profits and losses and, in turn, mediate how these environmental outcomes are projected onto underlying elements and actors within the organization. In this spirit, exploration can be considered not merely as the distance in the underlying behavior from current action, but also as changes in the dimensions of merit by which initiatives are judged. The Mendelian executive is a catalyst and cultivator of promising pathways to unknown futures.

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Author : Daniel A. Levinthal
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199684944
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Evolutionary Processes and Organizational Adaptation written by Daniel A. Levinthal and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do firms adapt? Is it through rational choice and intentionality, or rather a process of evolutionary dynamics? Using the ideas of Gregor Mendel as a touchstone, this book aims to construct a middle-ground between these two conceptions and provide a new framework for understanding the adaptive dynamics of organizations.

Author : Ewa Stańczyk-Hugiet
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1787696855
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Evolutionary Selection Processes written by Ewa Stańczyk-Hugiet and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2019-03-05 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book explains managerial intervention and its effects on the strategic adaptation mode. It introduces the concept of primary selection (inside an organization) with endogenous mechanisms and explains the strategic process via selecting organizational routines. The book goes beyond the classical selection exposing its multilevel character.

Author : Joel A.C. Baum
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195358910
Total Pages : 518 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Evolutionary Dynamics of Organizations written by Joel A.C. Baum and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1994-03-31 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the latest research and theory about organizational evolutionary change. It brings together the work of organization theorists who have played key roles in challenging the orthodox adaptation views that prevailed until the beginning of the 1980s. Joel A.C. Baum and Jitendra V. Singh emphasize hierarchy of evolutionary processes at the intraorganizational level, the organizational level, the population level, and the community level. Derived from a conference held at the Stern School of Business at New York University, Evolutionary Dynamics of Organizations is organized in a way that gives order and coherence to what has been a diverse and multidisciplinary field.

Author : Cynthia A. Montgomery
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1461522013
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Resource-Based and Evolutionary Theories of the Firm written by Cynthia A. Montgomery and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-06-27 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Resource-Based and Evolutionary Theories of the Firm: Towards a Synthesis explores the intersection of evolutionary theories of the firm with an emergent body of research in the field of strategic management that has been broadly referred to as the `resource-based view of the firm'. The volume approaches strategic questions from several vantage points, thereby fostering a useful cross-fertilization of ideas. The views presented spring from a variety of sources, namely the principles of strategic management, organisation economics, and population ecology.

Author : George Christopher Williams
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691185506
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Adaptation and Natural Selection written by George Christopher Williams and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-30 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biological evolution is a fact—but the many conflicting theories of evolution remain controversial even today. When Adaptation and Natural Selection was first published in 1966, it struck a powerful blow against those who argued for the concept of group selection—the idea that evolution acts to select entire species rather than individuals. Williams’s famous work in favor of simple Darwinism over group selection has become a classic of science literature, valued for its thorough and convincing argument and its relevance to many fields outside of biology. Now with a new foreword by Richard Dawkins, Adaptation and Natural Selection is an essential text for understanding the nature of scientific debate.

Author : Robert Alexander Burgelman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108996175
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Strategy-Making and Organizational Evolution written by Robert Alexander Burgelman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-03-23 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Element presents several frameworks of strategy-making that serve to analyze organizational evolution processes within and beyond the firm. These frameworks form an integrated evolutionary ecological lens to examine the dynamics of strategy-making in organizational evolution. They highlight the role of the internal selection environment for analyzing processes and practices at various managerial levels (top, middle, and operational) within the organization. The Element also explains the role of the CEO in maintaining and updating the internal selection environment and contributing to organizational evolution, as well as making. fundamental decisions about organizational splits of the firm's business models as an ecosystem evolves.

Author : Kurt Dopfer
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 0429677723
Total Pages : 477 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Routledge Handbook of Evolutionary Economics written by Kurt Dopfer and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-11-27 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While dating from post-Classical economists such as Thorstein Veblen and Joseph Schumpeter, the inception of the modern field of evolutionary economics is usually dated to the early 1980s. Broadly speaking, evolutionary economics sees the economy as undergoing continual, evolutionary change. Evolutionary change indicates that these changes were not planned, but rather were the result of innovations and selection processes. These often involved winners and losers, but most importantly, they resulted in actors learning what was and was not working. Evolutionary economics, in contrast to mainstream economics, emphasises the relevance of variables such as technology, institutions, decision rules, routines, or consumer preferences for explaining the complex evolutionary changes in the economy. In so doing, evolutionary economics significantly broadens the scope of economic analysis, and sheds new light on key concepts and issues of the discipline. This handbook draws on a stellar cast list of international contributors, ranging from the founders of the field to the newest voices. The volume explores the current state of the art in the field of evolutionary economics at the levels of the micro (e.g. firms and households), meso (e.g. industries and institutions), and macro (e.g. economic policy, structure, and growth). Overall, the Routledge Handbook of Evolutionary Economics provides an excellent overview of current trends and issues in this rapidly developing field.

Author : Francesca Gagliardi
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1785365002
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Institutions and Evolution of Capitalism written by Francesca Gagliardi and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2019 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In just over 30 years, Geoff Hodgson has made substantial contributions to institutional economics, evolutionary economics, economic methodology, the history of economic thought and social theory. To mark his seminal work, this volume brings together original contributions by world-leading scholars in specific areas that have played a significant role in influencing his thinking or represent key debates to which he has contributed. Building on some of the most significant philosophical and methodological foundations underlying Hodgson's work, the volume is organised around the recurring themes of institutions, evolution and capitalism.