The Evolution of Organizations

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1 The Evolution of Organizations Edited by John Child Emeritus Professor of Commerce University of Birmingham UK THE INTERNATIONAL LIBRARY OF CRITICAL WRITINGS ON BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT An Elgar Research Collection Cheltenham, UK Northampton, MA, USA

2 Contents Acknowledgements Introduction John Child ix xiii PART I PART II FOUNDATIONS AND KEY ISSUES 1. J. Mark Baldwin (1896), 'ANew Factor in Evolution', American Naturalist, XXX (354), June, James G. March (1994),' The Evolution of Evolution', in Joel A.C. Baum and Jitendra V. Singh (eds), Evolutionary Dynamics of Organizations, Chapter 3, Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, Geoffrey M. Hodgson and Thorbj0rn Knudsen (2006), 'Why We ' Need a Generalized Darwinism, and Why Generalized Darwinism is Not Enough', Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 61(1), Johann Peter Murmann, Howard E. Aldrich, Daniel Levinthal and Sidney G. Winter (2003), 'Evolutionary Thought in Management and Organization Theory at the Beginning of the New Millennium', Journal of Management Inquiry, 12 (1), March, Michael C. White, Daniel B. Marin, Deborah V. Brazeal and William H. Friedman (1997), 'The Evolution of Organizations: Suggestions from Complexity Theory About the Interplay Between Natural Selection and Adaptation', Human Relations,50(11), 1383^01 '' 59 EVOLUTION OF ORGANIZATIONAL POPULATIONS 6. Michael T. Hannan and John Freeman (1977), 'The Population Ecology of Organizations', American Journal of Sociology, 82 (5), March, Glenn R. Carroll (1997), 'Long-term Evolutionary Change in Organizational Populations: Theory, Models and Empirical Findings in Industrial Demography', Industrial and Corporate Change, 6(1), Richard N. Langlois (2003), 'The Vanishing Hand: The Changing Dynamics of Industrial Capitalism', Industrial and Corporate Change, 12 (2), , John M. Usher and Martin G. Evans (1996),' Life and Death Along Gasoline Alley: Darwinian and Lamarckian Processes in a Differentiating Population', Academy of Management Journal, 39 (5), October,

3 10. Paul Ingram and Crist Inman (1996), 'Institutions, Intergroup Competition, and the Evolution of Hotel Populations around Niagara Falls', Administrative Science Quarterly, 41 (4), December, Andrew J. Hoffman (1999), 'Institutional Evolution and Change: Environmentalism and the U.S. Chemical Industry', Academy of Management Journal, 42 (4), August, PART III EVOLUTIONARY ECONOMICS 12. Richard R. Nelson (1994),' Evolutionary Theorizing About Economic Change', in Neil J. Smelser and Richard Swedberg (eds), The Handbook of Economic Sociology, Chapter 5, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, Sidney G. Winter (1990), 'Survival, Selection, and Inheritance in Evolutionary Theories of Organization', in Jitendra V. Singh (ed.), Organizational Evolution: New Directions, Chapter 12, London, UK: Sage Publications, * 14. Jan Fagerberg (2003),'Schumpeter and the Revival of Evolutionary Economics: An Appraisal of the Literature', Journal of Evolutionary Economics, 13 (2), Ulrich Witt (2005), 'The Evolutionary Perspective on Organizational Change and the Theory of the Firm', in Kurt Dopfer (ed.), The Evolutionary Foundations of Economics, Chapter 10, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, PART IV THE HISTORICAL EVOLUTION OF ORGANIZATIONS 16. Roland Calori, Michael Lubatkin, Philippe Very and John F. Veiga (1997), 'Modelling the Origins of Nationally-Bound Administrative Heritages: A Historical Institutional Analysis of French and British Firms', Organization Science, 8 (6), November-December, Alfred Kieser (1989), 'Organizational, Institutional, and Societal Evolution: Medieval Craft Guilds and the Genesis of Formal Organizations', Administrative Science Quarterly, 34 (4), December, John Langton (1984), 'The Ecological Theory of Bureaucracy: The Case of Josiah Wedgwood and the British Pottery Industry', Administrative Science Quarterly, 29 (3), September, Arthur L. Stinchcombe (1965), 'Social Structure and the Founding of Organizations', in James G. March (ed.), Handbook of L Organizations, Chapter 4, Chicago, IL: Rand McNally, (extract), 457

4 PART V PART VI EVOLUTION OF ORGANIZATIONS 20. John Child and Alfred Kieser (1981), 'Development of Organizations Over Time', in Paul C. Nystrom and William H. Starbuck (eds), Handbook of Organizational Design, Volume 1, Chapter 2, Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, Michael L. Tushman and Elaine Romanelli (1985), 'Organizational Evolution: A Metamorphosis Model of Convergence and Reorientation', in Larry L. Cummings and Barry M. Staw (eds), Research in Organizational Behavior, Volume 7, Greenwich, CT: JAI Press, Martin Schulz (1998), 'Limits to Bureaucratic Growth: The Density Dependence of Organizational Rule Births', Administrative Science Quarterly, 43 (4), December, Robert A. Burgelman (2002),' Strategy as Vector and the Inertia of Coevolutionary Lock-in', Administrative Science Quarterly, 47 (2), June, EVOLUTION OF MULTINATIONAL CORPORATIONS AND ALLIANCES 24. Jan Johanson and Jan-Erik Vahlne (2009), 'The Uppsala Internationalization Process Model Revisited: From Liability of Foreignness to Liability of Outsidership', Journal of International Business Studies,40 (9), Bruce Kogut and Udo Zander (1993), 'Knowledge of the Firm and the Evolutionary Theory of the Multinational Corporation', Journal of International Business Studies, 24 (4), Anoop Madhok and Carl Liu (2006), 'A Coevolutionary Theory of the Multinational Firm', Journal of International Management, 12 (1), March, Yves L. Doz (1996), 'The Evolution of Cooperation in Strategic Alliances: Initial Conditions or Learning Processes?', Strategic Management Journal, 17, Summer, PART VII CO-EVOLUTION OF ORGANIZATIONS AND ENVIRONMENTS 28. Bill McKelvey (1997), 'Quasi-natural Organization Science', Organization Science, 8 (4), July-August, Arie Y. Lewin and Henk W. Volberda (1999),' Prolegomena on Coevolution: A Framework for Research on Strategy and New Organizational Forms', Organization Science, 10 (5), September- October, Marc Huygens, Charles Baden-Fujler, Frans A.J. Van Den Bosch and Henk W. Volberda (2001), 'Co-Evolution of Firm Capabilities and Industry Competition: Investigating the Music Industry, ', Organization Studies, 22 (6),

5 31. Suzana Rodrigues and John Child (2003), 'Co-Evolution in an Institutionalized Environment', Journal of Management Studies, 40 (8), December, Marleen Dieleman and Wladimir M. Sachs (2008), 'Coevolution of Institutions and Corporations in Emerging Economies: How the Salim Group Morphed into an Institution of Suharto's Crony Regime', Journal of Management Studies, 45 (7), November,