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The Demography of Corporations and Industries /

"In this book, Carroll and Hannan demonstrate why demographic research on corporations is important; describe how to conduct demographic research; specify fruitful areas of future research; and suggest how the demographic perspective can enrich the public discussion of issues surrounding the co...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Carroll, Glenn
Otros Autores: Hannan, Michael T.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2000.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The Case for Corporate Demography
  • About Organizations
  • Aging and Learning
  • Inertia and Change
  • Competitive Intensity
  • Global Competition
  • Historical Efficiency
  • Employment and Entrepreneurship
  • A Look Ahead
  • The Demographic Perspective
  • Demography of Business Organizations
  • Organizing Principles of Demography
  • Formal Demography and Population Studies
  • Demographic Explanation
  • The Demography of the Work Force
  • Internal Organizational Demography
  • Toward a Corporate Demography
  • Earlier Efforts
  • Retaining the Classical Structure
  • Making Demography Organizational
  • A Research Strategy
  • Forms and Populations
  • Population versus Form
  • Identity and Form
  • Codes
  • Organizational Forms
  • Organizational Populations
  • Systems of Forms
  • Implications for Corporate Demography
  • Methods of Corporate Demography
  • Observation Plans
  • Designs in Organizational Research
  • Trade-offs in Observation Plans
  • Impact of Observation Plans
  • Analyzing Vital Rates
  • Event-History Designs
  • Stochastic-Process Models
  • Life-Table Estimation
  • Constant-Rate Models
  • Modeling Corporate Vital Rates
  • Duration Dependence
  • Dependence on Covariates
  • Note on Left Truncation
  • Comparing Designs by Simulation
  • Simulation Findings
  • Demographic Data Sources
  • Criteria for Evaluating Sources
  • Commonly Used Sources
  • Using Multiple Sources
  • Data Realities
  • Population Processes
  • Organizational Environments
  • Telephone Companies
  • Modeling Environments.