The ability of societies to respond to social problems may hinge crucially on the diversity of
organizational forms, and in the long run, in a dynamic environment, diversity can be …

This paper distinguishes between two ecological perspectives on organizational evolution:
population ecology and community ecology. The perspectives adopt different levels of …

Rather quietly over the last decade, a large body of literature has emerged to consider how
new forms of organization arise and become established in the organizational community …

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 …

Organizational ecology aims to explain how social, economic and political conditions affect
the relative abundance and diversity of organizations and to account for their changing …

The intellectual tension between questions of stability and questions of change permeate
the social sciences in general and organizational theory in particular. After a substantial …

The population ecology of organizations explores the effects of social and historical
transformations on the world of organizations as well as the role of organizational population …

This chapter examines recent and current theoretical and empirical research information
about dynamics, development, and change in groups within organizations. Its central …

" Why are there so many kinds of organizations?" Hannan and Freeman (1977: 936) posed
this question in their seminal article on population ecology. Essentially they are asking why …

How do social organizations evolve? How do they adapt to environmental pressures? What
resources and capabilities determine their survival within dynamic competition? Charles …