In contrast to population ecology and new institutionalist approaches that cite the external
environment as the culprit for inertia, this article steps inside the organization to show how …

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Organizations Structures, Processes, and Outcomes Tenth Edition Pamela S. Tolbert Professor …

Generational phenomena underlie several complex organizational challenges. Yet many
fundamental questions regarding what generations mean and what the implications of …

Organizational ecology is commonly seen as a Darwinian research program that seeks to
explain the diversity of organizational structures, properties and behaviors as the product of …

A challenge facing neo-institutionalism is to detail how pre-existing institutional conditions
and alternative institutional projects influence the creation of new organizational forms. We …

Literature on the application of the life cycles analogy to the study of organizations is
reviewed. The controversy over the use of life cycle stages to characterize the evolution of …

University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill eedless of Madonna's warning, Paul Hirsch urged
me touse this occasion as an opportunity to preach a bit. The Organization and Management …

A theoretical frame is developed that links the genesis of formal organizations to societal
evolution. This theoretical frame lends itself to an analysis of the peculiarities of the craft …

Many approaches to understanding organization change approach “the organization” as a
relatively static entity. Punctuated equilibrium models have also become popular, but here …

In this paper, we argue that numerous dynamic entities make up organizations and that their
complexity can be described systematically. We identify three types of organizational …