Organizational Ecology

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Part I Theory -- 1 Organizations and Social Structure -- Organizational Diversity -- Perspectives on Organizational Change -- The Demography and Ecology of Organizations -- Population Thinking -- Evolution of Organizational Forms -- Dynamic and Comparative Analysis -- 2 Theoretical Background -- Organization Theory and Sociology: Missing Connections -- Comparison of Contemporary Approaches -- Controversies and Misunderstandings -- Managerial Implications and Applications -- 3 Boundaries of Forms and Populations -- Approaches to Defining Forms -- A Focus on Boundaries -- Boundary Dynamics and Diversity -- Implications for Research -- 4 Structural Inertia and Organizational Change -- Structural Inertia -- A Hierarchy of Inertial Forces -- Variations in Strength of Inertia -- 5 Competition and the Niche -- The Principle of Isomorphism -- The Niche -- Classical Competition Theory -- Niche Overlap and Competition -- 6 Modeling the Dynamics of Organizational Populations -- Variations in Intrinsic Founding Rates -- Effects of Environments on Carrying Capacities -- Conceptualizing the Size of Populations -- Carrying Capacities and Density Dependence -- Rate Dependence and Diversity Dependence -- Dynamics of Selection -- Part II Methods -- 7 Designs of Empirical Studies -- Defining Events -- National Labor Unions -- Semiconductor Merchant Producers -- Newspaper Publishers in San Francisco -- Comparison of Data Sets -- 8 Models and Methods of Analysis -- Describing Organizational Histories -- Models for Transition Rates -- Counting Process Models -- Estimation and Testing -- Part III Empirical Findings -- 9 The Population Ecology of Founding and Entry -- Core Questions -- Founding Rates of Labor Unions -- Entry Rates of Semiconductor Manufacturing Firms -- Founding Rates of Newspaper Firms -- Comparisons and Contrasts.