Culture and Demography in Organizations

Culture and Demography in Organizations
Author: J. Richard Harrison
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 298
Release: 2021-07-13
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0691233195

How do corporations and other organizations maintain and transmit their cultures over time? Culture and Demography in Organizations offers the most reliable and comprehensive answer to this complex question to date. The first book on the subject to ground its analysis in mathematical tools and computer simulation, it goes beyond standard approaches, which focus on socialization within organizations, by explicitly considering the effects of demographic processes of entry, exit, and organizational growth. J. Richard Harrison and Glenn R. Carroll base their analysis on a formal model with three components: hiring, socialization, and employee turnover. In exploring the model's implications through computer simulation methods, the authors cover topics such as organizational growth and decline, top management teams, organizational influence networks, terrorist organizations, cultural integration following mergers, and organizational failure. For each topic, they identify the conditions influencing cultural transmission. In general, they find that demographic processes play a central role in influencing organizational culture and that studying these processes leads to some surprising insights unavailable when considering socialization alone. This book, which also serves as an ideal introduction to the increasingly popular use of computer simulation, will be an indispensable resource for scholars and students of organization theory and behavior, cultural studies, strategic management, sociology, economics, and social simulation.

Culture and Demography in Organizations

Culture and Demography in Organizations
Author: J. Richard Harrison
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 298
Release: 2006
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780691124827

How do corporations and other organizations transmit their cultures over time? This book grounds its analysis in mathematical tools and computer simulation, and offers a comprehensive answer to this question. It is for students of organization theory and behavior, cultural studies, strategic management, sociology, economics, and social simulation

The Demography of Corporations and Industries

The Demography of Corporations and Industries
Author: Glenn R. Carroll
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 530
Release: 2004-07-26
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780691120157

This text presents the demographic approach to organized studies in its entirety. It examines the theory, method, models and data used in corporate demographic research and explores the processes by which corporate populations change over time, including organizational founding, growth and decline.

The Power of Organizations

The Power of Organizations
Author: Heather A. Haveman
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2022-12-13
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0691238049

How organizations developed in history, how they operate, and how research on them has evolved Organizations are all around us: government agencies, multinational corporations, social-movement organizations, religious congregations, scientific bodies, sports teams, and more. Immensely powerful, they shape all social, economic, political, and cultural life, and are critical for the planning and coordination of every activity from manufacturing cardboard boxes to synthesizing new drugs and reducing greenhouse gas emissions. To understand our world, we must understand organizations. The Power of Organizations defines the features of organizations, examines how they operate, traces their rise over the course of a millennium, and explains how research on organizations has evolved from the mid-nineteenth century to today. Heather Haveman shows how almost all contemporary research on organizations fits into three general perspectives: demographic, relational, and cultural. She offers constructive criticism of existing research, showing how it can be remade to be both more interesting and influential. She examines how we can use existing theories to understand the changes wrought by digital technologies, and she argues that organizational scholars can and should alter the impact that organizations have on society, particularly societal and global inequality, formal politics, and environmental degradation. The Power of Organizations demonstrates the benefits and dangers of these ubiquitous foundations of modern society.

International Encyclopedia of Organization Studies

International Encyclopedia of Organization Studies
Author: Stewart Clegg
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 2009
Release: 2008
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1412915155

Describing the field, spanning individual, organisation societal and cultural perspectives in a cross-disciplinary manner, this is the premier reference tool for students lecturers, academics and practitioners to gather knowledge about a range of important topics from the perspective of organisation studies.

Demographic Differences in Organizations

Demographic Differences in Organizations
Author: Anne S. Tsui
Publisher: Lexington Books
Total Pages: 236
Release: 1999
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780739100561

Meticulously researched and authored by two respected scholars, this book addresses the problems and benefits associated with an increasingly diverse global workforce.

Handbook of Research Methods for Organisational Culture

Handbook of Research Methods for Organisational Culture
Author: Newton, Cameron
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2022-02-04
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1788976266

This innovative Handbook explores the complexity of cultural, conceptual and definitional issues surrounding research into organisational culture, outlining the varied frameworks and theories that underpin the field.