Ecology and strategy /
"The dominant view in strategic management emphasizes the adaptation of individual organizations to changing competitive and environmental circumstance. From this perspective, strategy is about the alignment (and realignment) of internal strengths and weaknesses with external opportunities and...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Otros Autores: | , , |
Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
Amsterdam, Oxford :
Elsevier JAI,
2006.
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Colección: | Advances in strategic management ;
v. 23. |
Temas: | |
Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Chapter 1. Introduction: Ecology versus Strategy or Strategy and Ecology?
- Structure of the Volume
- Contrasting Ecology and Strategy
- Demography of Competition
- Positional Advantages
- Inertia and Change
- Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- Part I: Entrepreneurship
- Chapter 2. Boom and Bust: The Effect of Entrepreneurial Inertia on Organizational Populations
- Introduction
- Theoretical and Substantive Background
- Data, Measures, and Method
- Results
- Discussion
- Notes
- References
- Appendix. Stability Analysis
- Chapter 3. Optimal Inertia: When Organizations should Fail
- Introduction
- The Optimist's View: Strategic Management Theorists
- The Pessimist's View: Different Strategic Management Theorists
- The ''Really'' Pessimistic View: The Sociology of Organizations
- A Contingent View: The Economics of Inertia
- An Instrumental View: The Entrepreneurship of Inertia
- Notes
- References
- Appendix: Model
- Part II: Top Management Teams
- Chapter 4. Top Management Team Composition and Organizational Ecology: A Nested Hierarchical Selection Theory of Team Reproduction and Organizational Diversity
- Introduction
- Micro-level Homosocial Reproduction
- Homosocial Reproduction and Differentiation
- A Multi-level Theory of Reproduction and Diversity
- Appraisal and Conclusion
- Notes
- Acknowledgment
- References
- Chapter 5. CEO Turnover in the New Era: A Dialogue with the Financial Community
- Introduction
- The Role of Corporate Leadership
- External Constituents in the Old Era: A Lack of Dialogue
- New Era of Corporate Accountability
- Discussion and Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- Part III: Organizational Change
- Chapter 6. Ecology, Strategy and Organizational Change
- Introduction
- Organizational Ecology and Organizational Change
- Ecological Literature on Organizational Change: A Brief Review
- Strong Selection vs. Weak Selection
- The Emerging Evolutionary Synthesis
- An Evolutionary Perspective on Organizational Change
- Some Open Questions Related to Organizational Change
- Organizational Ecology and Organizational Strategy: An Emerging Synthesis?
- Summary
- Notes
- Acknowledgment
- References
- Chpater 7. The Best of Both Worlds: Exploitation and Exploration in Successful Family Businesses
- Organization and Scope of the Paper
- Requisites for Effective Organizational Change
- Stewardship Advantages in Exploitation and Exploration
- Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- Part IV: Organizational Learning
- Chapter 8. If it doesn't kill you: Learning from Ecological Competition
- Introduction
- Theory and Hypotheses
- Data and Methodology
- Findings
- Discussion
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- References
- Chpater 9. Strategic Renewal as Improvisation: Reconciling the Tension Between Exploration and Exploitation
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