Dear Professor Murmann and others who may interest about this
I am not sure the following entries may help, I assure you may familiar with some of them.
Burgelman, R. A. 1991. Intraorganizational ecology of strategy making and organization adaptation: Theory and field research. Organization Science, 2, 239-262.
Child, J. 1997. Strategic choice in the analysis of action, structure, organizations and environment: Retrospect and prospect. Organization Studies, 18(1): 43-76.
Durand, R. 2006. Organizational evolution and strategic management. London: Sage Publications Ltd.
Lewin, A. Y., & Koza, M. P. 2002. Empirical research in co-evolutionary process of strategic adaptation and change: The promises and the challenge. Organization Studies, 22(6): v-xii.
Dijksterhuis, M., Van Den Bosch, F. A. J., & Volberda, H. W. 1999. Where do new organizational forms come from? Management logics as a source of coevolution. Organization Science, 10(5): 569-582
Lewin, A. Y., & Volberda, H. W. 2003. The future of organization studies: Beyond the selection-adaptation debate. In H. Tsoukas, & C. Knudsen (Eds.), Oxford Handbook of Organization Theory: 568-595. New York: Oxford University Press.Volberda, H. W., & Lewin, A. Y. 2003. Co-evolutionary dynamics within and between firms: From evolution to co-evolution. Journal of Management Studies, 40(8): 2111-2136.
Two edited books may contain some articles you may interestBaum, J. A. C., & McKelvey, B. (Eds.). 1999. Variations in Organization Science: In honor of Donald T. Campbell. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
Baum, J. A. C., & Singh, J. V. (Eds.). 1994a. Evolutionary dynamics of organizations. New York: Oxford University Press.
Best regards,
Der Chao Chen
On Dec 11, 2007 8:54 AM, J. Peter Murmann <
lists@professor-murmann.net> wrote:
Dear colleagues:
I have followed quite closely the literature arguing that well-adapted organizations result largely from a selection process at the population level. But I have not kept track of the theoretical and empirical literature arguing that most adaptations result from prescient and intended managerial actions. I am familiar with the John Child 1972 and the top management team literature (Hambrick et al.) the 1980s and early 1990s.
Can you point me to important pieces on the adaptation perspective that have come out since that time, especially those that have explicitly argued against the environmental selection perspective?
Many thanks in advance,
Peter
References:
Child, J. (1972). "Organization Structure, Environment, and Performance-The Role of Strategic Choice." Sociology 6(1): 1-22.
Hambrick, D. C. and P. A. Mason (1984). "Upper Echelons: The Organization as a Reflection of its Top Managers." Academy of Management Review 9: 193-200.
Hambrick, D. C., D. Nadler, et al. (1998). Navigating change: how CEOs, top teams, and boards steer transformation. Boston, Mass., Harvard Business School Press.
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