Available ecological models of organizations do not provide satisfactory explanation for population extinction. In this article, we search for a minimal set of assumptions needed to expand the range of dynamic behaviors of the ecological model of density dependence to admit extinction while...

An organization is more than the sum of its parts, and the individual components that function as a complex social system can be understood only by analyzing their collective behavior. This book shows how state-of-the-art simulation methods, including genetic algorithms, neural networks, and...

An extensive empirical literature has demonstrated the existence of density-dependent selection in organizational vital rates. This research has also shown that historical trajectories followed by organizational populations only partly conform to the predictions of the original model....