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Organizational Evolution and Strategic Management



June 2006 | 200 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd
`Rodolphe Durand has a compelling message for the growing community of evolutionary researchers in organization studies. Evolutionary researchers need to attend more carefully to historical and contemporary debates in the biological sciences if they are to avoid false tracks and simplisitic analogies. Durand offers here the foundations of a distinctive and authentic evolutionary theory that takes organizations seriously for what they are' - Richard Whittington, Oxford University

`This book fills an important gap in the study of organizations and strategy from an evolutionary perspective. It offers a synthetic approach to evolutionary analysis with grounded empirical examples that graduate students and seasoned scholars alike will find immensely useful. Durand's OES model, rooted in a critical examination of philosophical and scientific writings on evolution, is particularly promising and provides a valuable guidepost for future research on organizations and strategic management' - Michael Lounsbury, University of Alberta

How is economic evolutionary theory, in which organisations evolve according to environmental selection, reconciled with evidence of strategic management?

This book is the first of its kind to propose a solution to this theoretical puzzle and engage readers in a balanced understanding of organizational evolution.

Rodolphe Durand embarks upon a fresh assessment of the literature. His discoveries provide the foundation for a new theory of organizational selection and an organizational evolution and strategy model that reconciles economic evolution with strategic intentionality.

Chapters include an examination of the work by Lamarck, Darwin and Spencer; a constructive appraisal of evolutionary theory applied to organisations and a summary of how the organizational evolution and strategy model will affect future theory and research.


 
PART ONE: POSITIONING THE QUESTIONS
 
Introduction, Contributions and Overview
 
Organizational Evolution
Problems and Promises

 
 
PART TWO: BUILDING THE CHECKLIST APPRAISAL GRID FOR EVOLUTIONARY MODELS
 
Evolutionary Theories in Retrospect
 
Evolutionary Models in Organizational Theory
 
Introducing Recent Debates in Biology into the Checklist Appraisal Grid for Evolutionary Models
 
PART THREE: OFFERING POTENTIAL ANSWERS
 
The Organizational Evolution and Strategy Model
 
Implications

Critical thinking exercises. Case studies.

Ms Janet Nelson
Business Administration Dept, University of South Maine - Portland
May 2, 2013

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