Organizational evolution and strategic management / Rudolphe Durand.

How can the argument that organisations evolve according to environmental pressures be reconciled with evidence of strategic management? This book is the first of its kind to answer this theoretical puzzle and engage readers in a balanced understanding of organizational evolution. Organization and s...

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Main Author: Durand, Rodolphe (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE, 2006.
Series:Sage strategy series.
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Table of Contents:
  • pt. I. Positioning the questions
  • Introduction, contrubtions, and overview
  • Organizational evolution: problems and promises
  • pt. II. Building the checklist appraisal grid for evolutionary models
  • Evolutionary theories in retrospect
  • Evolutionary models in organizational theory
  • Introducing recent debates in biology into the checklist appraisal grid for evolutionary models
  • pt. III. Offering potential answers
  • The organizational evolution and strategy model
  • Implications.