Variations in Organization Science: In Honor of Donald T Campbell - Hardcover

Baum, Joel A.C.; McKelvey, Bill

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0761911251 ISBN 13: 9780761911258

Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc, 1999

Synopsis

Variations in Organization Science celebrates Donald T Campbell′s many contributions to organization science, presenting new variations which stem directly from his work. Contributing authors review and extend Campbell′s theories in four major areas: blind variation, selection and retention especially inside firms; multilevel co-evolution in organizational parts and wholes; process level analysis and modeling epistemology and methodology. The book includes an unusual appendix, Donald T Campbell′s curriculum vitae.

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About the Author

Bill McKelvey 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 McKelvey 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).

Edition details

• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0761911251
• ISBN 13: 9780761911258
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 464