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Organizations Evolving

Organizations Evolving

by Howard Aldrich (Author)

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    Paperback 1999

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Synopsis

Winner of the 2000 Max Weber prize, awarded by the Section on Organizations, Occupations, and Work, of the American Sociological Association, for the best book on organizations published in the past 3 years! 'This book is an exceptional accomplishment and is compulsory reading for all organizational researchers'- Hayagreeva Rao, Emory University 'Organizations Evolving is precisely what this book is about...richly textured it gives the reader a distinctive feel for the subject and a way to think about and understand emergence and change in organizations...is informative and engaging' It is playful and rigorous. It is scholarly and quite practical. Aldrich writes with confidence and wisdom. He invites many theorists into the tent even as he sometimes re-casts their work within his frame. His book makes a fine contribution to the evolving field of organization studies' - Professor Peter J Frost University of British Columbia 'Organizations Evolving is masterful.Aldrich cogently consolidates state-of-the-art thinking and research on organizational evolution, a domain of enquiry that he helped pioneer 20 years ago with his classic Organizations and Environments' - Joel A C Baum, CN Chair in Strategy and Organization, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto Organizations Evolving is an authoritative exploration of contemporary organizations and how they mirror the contexts or environments within which they are established. Howard E Aldrich charts the development of organizational forms and assesses the impact on these of external innovations such as changing technology and globalization. New theories of knowledge and entrepreneurship are woven into the analysis, together with fresh interpretations of data. Building upon Howard E Aldrich's best known work Organizations and Environments (1979).

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 432
 Edition: 1
 Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
Published: 25 Aug 1999
ISBN 10: 0803989199
ISBN 13: 9780803989191

Media Reviews
`Organizations Evolving is masterful. Aldrich cogently consolidates state-of-the-art thinking and research on organizational evolution, a domain of enquiry that he helped pioneer 20 years ago with his classic Organizations and Environments' - Joel A C Baum, CN Chair in Strategy and Organization, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto

`This book pulls together an extensive array of information that focuses on emerging, rather than established businesses. Howard Aldrich presents the unique dilemmas faced by entrepreneurs in the creation of human resource policies and systems in a coherent and useful fashion ' - Candia Brush, Boston University

`Organizations Evolving is precisely what this book is about. In a richly textured way, Howard Aldrich gives the reader a distinctive feel for the subject and a way to think about and understand emergence and change in organizations. [The book] is informative and engaging. It is playful and rigorous. It is scholarly and quite practical. Aldrich writes with confidence and wisdom. He invites many theorists into the tent even as he sometimes re-casts their work within his frame. His book makes a fine contribution to the evolving field of organization studies' -Professor Peter J. Frost University of British Columbia

`This is a terrific book! Just as Howard Aldrich was the first to present an ecological framing for the field, this is the first comprehensive work to extend and integrate what so many have beentalking about as important, but (maybe excepting Nelson and Winter's start) nobody has explained and worked out where the field should move with it. Which Aldrich has done here so clearly and articulately. For me, the book is especially timely. Putting emergence and dynamics out front is a great contribution' - Paul Hirsch, James Allen Distinguished Professor of Strategy and Organization at the Kellogg School of Business, Northwestern University.

`Organizations Evolving is a timely and important addition to the literature on organizational evolution. It is essential reading for all organizational researchers' - Hayagreeva Rao

`The Immense learning of Aldrich's book shows that there is a lot of promise in evolutionary theory applied to organizations' - Arthur L Stinchcombe

`This is a high-level, wholly integrated volume for post-graduates and academics in the field. It has enormous potential for management strategists and consultants exploring the macro-issues and organisational and cultural change' - Cary L. Cooper The Times Higher March 24th 2000

`I would recommend this text as an excellent source book to anyone who is already immersed in organizational studies and aware of its plurality of perspectives' - British Journal of Sociology

Author Bio
Howard E. Aldrich received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan and is Kenan Professor of Sociology, Chair of the Sociology Department, Adjunct Professor of Business at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and Faculty Research Associate at the Department of Strategy & Entrepreneurship, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University. His book, Organizations Evolving (Sage, 1999), won the George Terry Award from the Academy of Management and was co-winner of the Max Weber Award from the OOW section of the American Sociological Association. In 2000, he won the Swedish Foundation on Small Business Award for his research on entrepreneurship. In 2002, he won the J. Carlyle Sitterson Award for Excellent in Freshman Teaching at UNC-CH. In 2011, the graduate students in sociology at UNC-CH gave him their Best Instructor award. His most recent book is An Evolutionary Approach to Entrepreneurship: Selected Essays (Elgar, 2012).