Variations in Organization Science:

In Honor of Donald T. Campbell

Edited by Joel A. C. Baum and Bill McKelvey

“This is an influential book on an important and timely issue. Written by some of the most influential writers in the field of organizational science, it provides a significant step forward in our thinking on variations in organization science. It is perhaps one of the few occasions when one is witness to the search processes in a research programme undertaken by a relatively small clique with a common intellectual root… This compelling volume is probably one of those few books that can be considered essential reading for all scholars in the field of organization science.”

(From the review in Organization Studies, November 2001)

Table of Contents

Forward : Barbara Frankel Campbell

1. Introduction: Donald T. Campbell’s Evolving Influence on Organization Science
Bill McKelvey and Joel A. C. Baum

Part One:  (Blind) Variation, Selection, and Retention (Summary & Abstracts)

2. The Accidental Entrepreneur: Campbellian Antinomies and Organizational Foundings
Howard E. Aldrich and Amy Kenworthy

3. The Hidden Engine of Selection: Interorganizational Imitation
Anne S. Miner and Sri V. Raghavan

4. Types of Variation in Organizational Populations: The Speciation of New Organizational Forms
Hayagreeva Rao and Jitendra V. Singh

5. Blind (but not Unconditioned) Variation: Problems of Copying in Socio-Cultural Evolution
Elaine Romanelli

6. Selection Processes Inside Organizations: The Self-Reinforcing Consequences of Success
Danny Miller

 

Part Three: Process Level Analysis and Modeling (Summary & Abstracts)

12. Static and Dynamic Variation and Firm Outcomes
Tammy L. Madsen, Elaine Mosakowski and Srilata Zaheer

13. Organizations as Networks of Actions
Brian T. Pentland

14. Evolutionary Models of Local Interaction: A Computational Perspective
Alessandro Lomi and Erik R. Larsen

15. Self-Organization, Complexity Catastrophe and Microstate Models at the Edge of Chaos
Bill McKelvey

 

Part Two:  Multilevel Coevolution (Summary & Abstracts)

7. Whole-Part Coevolutionary Competition in Organizations
Joel A. C. Baum

8. Venture Capital Dynamics and the Creation of Variation through Entrepreneurship
Philip Anderson

9. Sub-Organizational Evolution in the U.S. Pharmaceutical Industry
Paul Ingram and Peter Roberts

10. On the Complexity of Technological Evolution: Exploring Coevolution Within and Across Hierarchical Levels in Optical Disc Technology
Lori Rosenkopf and Atul Nerkar

11. Evolution in a Nested Hierarchy: A Geneology of Twin Cities Health Care Organizations 1853-1995
Andrew H. Van de Ven and David N. Grazman

Part Four: Methodology and Epistemology (Summary & Abstracts)

16. Donald T. Campbell’s Methodological Contributions to Organization Science
Martin G. Evans

17. What Can Management Researchers Learn from Donald T. Campbell, the Philosopher? An Exercise in Hermeneutics
Margaretha Hendrickx

18. Toward a Campbellian Realist Organization Science
Bill McKelvey

Appendix: Donald T. Campbell's Curriculum Vitae

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