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When Organizations and Environments was originally issued in 1979, it increased interest in evolutionary explanations of organizational change. Since then, scholars and practitioners have widely cit
This work collects journal articles and book chapters published since 1986, written by Aldrich (sociology, U. of North Carolina-Chapel Hill) alone or with co-authors. An introductory essay explains th
The authors use an evolutionary approach to explain the genesis of organizations and communities in modern industrial societies. The text begins with an explanation of the evolutionary approach and it
Organizations Evolving offers a unique theoretical framework for understanding organizational emergence, persistence, change, and decline. Synthesizing and integrating six paradigmatic approaches to o
