Joel A.C. Baum & Bill McKelvey 
Variations in Organization Science [PDF ebook] 
In Honor of Donald T Campbell

In my judgment this book in honor of Donald T. Campbell will be very influential and highly cited. . . . It will become a must read for Ph.D. students and scholars in strategy and organization theory. —Arie Lewin, Duke University ‘The topics in this volume are cutting edge, and the contributors are first-rate. The book is well anchored—Donald T. Campbell has had a profound influence on the field. Moreover, the book is well-conceptualized—socio-cultural evolution, co-evolution, methods modeling, and epistemology are key issues in organization science right now. —Michael Tushman, Harvard University If he were an assistant professor today, what would social science giant Donald T. Campbell be pursuing in the field of organization science? Joel A. C. Baum and Bill Mc Kelvey explore this question in Variations in Organization Science. This volume reveals and celebrates Campbell′s many contributions to organization science by presenting new variations that stem directly from his work. Rather than analyze Campbell′s theories, the authors present ideas that Campbell might have pursued if he were currently a doctoral student. This volume is unique in its focus on coevolution and multilevel coevolutionary analysis, as well as in its range of subject matter from empirical studies to leading-edge epistemological discourses. Each of the book′s four main sections focuses on a major aspect of Campbell′s legacy: blind variation, selection, and retention; multilevel coevolution; process level analysis and modeling; and epistemology and methodology. In addition, the volume includes a Foreward by Barbara Frankel Campbell and an unusual Appendix: Donald Campbell′s complete curriculum vitae. Variations in Organization Science should be on the top of the reading list for any organization scientist interested in organizational evolution, change, and competitiveness. This volume will also appeal to any scholar interested in the human and social capital base of firms and how organizational knowledge and learning work to provide the basis of competitive advantage.

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Foreword – Barbara Frankel Campbell

Donald T Campbell′s Evolving Influence on Organization Science – Bill Mc Kelvey and Joel A C Baum

PART ONE: BLIND-VARIATION-SELECTION-AND-RETENTION

The Accidental Entrepreneur – Howard E Aldrich and Amy L Kenworthy

Campbellian Antinomies and Organizational Foundings

Interorganizational Imitation – Anne S Miner and Sri V Raghavan

A Hidden Engine of Selection

Types of Variation in Organizational Populations – Hayagreeva Rao and Jitendra V Singh

The Speciation of New Organizational Forms

Blind (but not Unconditioned) Variation – Elaine Romanelli

Problems of Copying in Sociocultural Evolution

Selection Processes inside Organizations – Danny Miller

The Self-Reinforcing Consequences of Success

PART TWO: MULTILEVEL COEVOLUTION

Whole-Part Coevolutionary Competition in Organizations – Joel A C Baum

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

Suborganizational Evolution in the US Pharmaceutical Industry – Paul Ingram and Peter W Roberts

On the Complexity of Technological Evolution – Lori Rosenkopf and Atul Nerkar

Exploring Coevolution Within and Across Hierarchical Levels in Optical Disc Technology

Evolution in a Nested Hierarchy – Andrew H Van de Ven and David N Grazman

A Geneology of Twin Cities Health Care Organizations 1853-1995

PART THREE: PROCESS LEVEL ANALYSIS AND MODELING

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

Organizations as Networks of Actions – Brian T Pentland

Evolutionary Models of Local Interaction – Alessandro Lomi and Erik R Larsen

A Computational Perspective

Self-Organization, Complexity Catastrophe and Microstate Models at the Edge of Chaos – Bill Mc Kelvey

PART FOUR: METHODOLOGY AND EPISTEMOLOGY

Donald T Campbell′s Methodological Contributions to Organization Science – Martin G Evans

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

Toward a Campbellian Realist Organization Science – Bill Mc Kelvey

Despre autor

Bill Mc Kelvey received his Ph.D. from MIT in 1967 and is currently Professor of Strategic
Organizing and Complexity Science at the UCLA. His book, Organizational Systematics (1982) remains the definitive treatment
of organizational evolution and taxonomy. In 1997 he became Director of the
Center for Rescuing Strategy and Organization Science (SOS). He was a founder
of UCLA’s Center for Human Complex Systems & Computational Social Science.
Recently Mc Kelvey co-edited Variations in
Organization Science (1999) and a special issue of the journal, Emergence. Forthcoming book is: Complexity
Dynamics in Organizations: Applications of Order-Creation Science
(Cambridge University Press).