具体描述
Most analysts of corporations and industries adopt the focal perspective of a single prototypical organization. Many analysts also study corporations primarily in terms of their internal organizational structures or as complex systems of financial contracts. Glenn Carroll and Michael Hannan bring fresh insight to our understanding of corporations and the industries they comprise by looking beyond prototypical structures to focus on the range and diversity of organizations in their social and economic setting. The result is a rich rendering of analysis that portrays whole populations and communities of corporations. "The Demography of Corporations and Industries" is the first book to present the demographic approach to organizational studies in its entirety. It examines the theory, models, methods, and data used in corporate demographic research. Carroll and Hannan explore the processes by which corporate populations change over time, including organizational founding, growth, decline, structural transformation, and mortality. They review and synthesize the major theoretical mechanisms of corporate demography, ranging from aging and size dependence to population segregation and density dependence. The book also explores some selected implications of corporate demography for public policy, including employment and regulation. In this path-breaking 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 corporation in our constantly evolving industrial society. All researchers and analysts with an interest in this topic will find "The Demography of Corporations and Industries" an invaluable resource.
作者简介
Glenn R. Carroll is the Paul J. Cortese Distinguished Professor of Management at the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley. Michael T. Hannan is the StrataCom Professor of Management and Professor of Sociology at Stanford University.
目录信息
17
Toward a Corporate Demography
35
Forms and Populations
59
Methods of Corporate Demography
83
Analyzing Vital Rates
101
Modeling Corporate Vital Rates
135
Demographic Data Sources
163
Population Processes
191
Organizational Processes
279
Size Dependence
313
Initial Mobilizing
339
Organizational Transformation
357
Selected Implications
381
Regulation
401
Employment
423
Organizational Diversity
439
DensityDependent Processes I
213
DensityDependent Processes II
239
Segregating Processes
261
References
453
Index
481
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