{"product_id":"the-demography-of-corporations-and-industries-9780691120157","title":"The Demography of Corporations and Industries","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePresents the demographic approach to organizational studies. This book examines the theory, models, methods, and data used in corporate demographic research. It explores the processes by which corporate populations change over time, including organizational founding, growth, decline, structural transformation, and mortality.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Destined to become the standard reference ... Caroll and Hannan admirably chronicle the first steps toward legitimizing organizational demography as a distinct specialist form.\"--David Knoke, American Journal of Sociology \"This is one of the most scientific textbooks in the field... [It] serves as an (almost) ideal example for students and scholars alike, and it is highly relevant for nearly everybody interested in organizations, policy, management, strategy, and contingency. Students of modernity will also find much of interest.\"--Jeroen Bruggeman, Contemporary Sociology \"The Demography of Corporations and Industries [is] ... the reference book on the subject.\"--Hallie J. Kintner, Population Studies \"A compelling contribution that is destined to be a mandatory addition to the bookshelves of the beginner and the advanced scholar and a testament to the vigor and reach of the ecological program of research.\"--Hayagreeva Rao, Administrative Science Quarterly\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Figures xi  List of Tables xv  Preface xix  Acknowledgments xxvii  Part I The Case for Corporate Demography 1  1 About Organizations 3  1.1 Aging and Learning 3  1.2 Inertia and Change 5  1.3 Competitive Intensity 7  1.4 Global Competition 9  1.5 Historical Efficiency 11  1.6 Employment and Entrepreneurship 12  1.7 A Look Ahead 14  2 The Demographic Perspective 17  2.1 Demography of Business Organizations 18  2.2 Organizing Principles of Demography 25  2.3 Formal Demography and Population Studies 26  2.4 Demographic Explanation 28  2.5 The Demography of the Work Force 31  2.6 Internal Organizational Demography 32  3 Toward a Corporate Demography 35  3.1 Earlier Efforts 36  3.2 Retaining the Classical Structure 39  3.3 Making Demography Organizational 40  3.4 A Research Strategy 56  4 Forms and Populations 59  4.1 Population versus Form 60  4.2 Identity and Form 67  4.3 Codes 68  4.4 Organizational Forms 73  4.5 Organizational Populations 74  4.6 Systems of Forms 76  4.7 Implications for Corporate Demography 78  Part II Methods of Corporate Demography 83  5 Observation Plans 85  5.1 Designs in Organizational Research 86  5.2 Trade-offs in Observation Plans 89  6 Analyzing Vital Rates 101   6.1 Event-History Designs 101  6.2 Stochastic-Process Models 110  6.3 Life-Table Estimation 117  6.4 Constant-Rate Models 127  7 Modeling Corporate Vital Rates 135  7.1 Duration Dependence 135  7.2 Dependence on Covariates 139  7.3 Note on Left Truncation 149  7.4 Comparing Designs by Simulation 150  7.5 Simulation Findings 155  8 Demographic Data Sources 163  8.1 Criteria for Evaluating Sources 164  8.2 Commonly Used Sources 167  8.3 Using Multiple Sources 185  8.4 Data Realities 188  Part III Population Processes 191  9 Organizational Environments 193  9.1 Telephone Companies 194  9.2 Modeling Environments 197  9.3 Environmental Imprinting 205  9.4 Imprinting in High-Tech Firms 207  10 Density-Dependent Processes I 213  10.1 Models of Population Growth 214  10.2 Corporate Density Dependence 216  10.3 Theory of Density Dependence 222  10.4 Interpreting Density Dependence 228  10.5 Weighted Density 232  10.6 Programmatic Issues 236  11 Density-Dependent Processes II 239  11.1 Density Delay 240  11.2 Population-Age Interactions 243  11.3 Size Interactions 251  11.4 Multilevel Processes 253  12 Segregating Processes 261  12.1 Resource Partitioning 262  12.2 Research on Partitioning 269  12.3 Size-Localized Competition 272  Part IV Organizational Processes 279  13 Age-Dependent Processes 281  13.1 Models of Age Dependence 282  13.2 Age-Related Liabilities 288  13.3 Age and Growth Rates 290  13.4 Theories of Age Dependence 291  13.5 Core Assumptions 296  13.6 Liabilities of Newness and Adolescence 301  13.7 Liability of Senescence 303  13.8 Alignment, Drift and Obsolescence 306  13.9 Liability of Obsolescence 309  14 Size Dependence 313  14.1 Size and Growth Rates 315  14.2 Age, Size, and Mortality 319  14.3 Automobile Manufacturers 322  14.4 Extending the Formalization 331  15 Initial Mobilizing 339  15.1 Organizing Activities 340  15.2 Theoretical Arguments 343  15.3 Automobile Preproducers 346  16 Organizational Transformation 357  16.1 Theory and Research 358  16.2 Structural Inertia 362  16.3 Transformation and Mortality 368  16.4 Innovation in Automobile Manufacturing 374  Appendix: A Property-Based Formalization of Inertia Theory 377  Part V Selected Implications 381  17 Organization Theory 383  17.1 Equilibrium Orientation 383  17.2 Alignment and Fitness 385  17.3 Adaptation and Selection 389  17.4 Speed and Efficiency of Change 393  17.5 Historical Efficiency and Competition 397  18 Regulation 401  18.1 Early Telephony 403  18.2 Interconnection Laws 404  18.3 The Kingsbury Commitment 406  18.4 Regulation and Deregulation in Banking 411  18.5 System Dynamics after Deregulation 414  18.6 Deregulation and Organizational Growth 418  19 Employment 423  19.1 Effects on Careers 424  19.2 Corporate Demography andjob Shifts 425  19.3 Job Creation and Dissolution 426  19.4 Corporate Demography and Individual Mobility 429  19.5 Employment Benefits and Social Welfare 432  19.6 Effects of Careers on Corporate Demography 437  20 Organizational Diversity 439  20.1 Beer and Wine Industries 440  20.2 Diversity, Careers, and Inequality 444  20.3 Toward a Community Ecology of Corporations 451  References 453  Index 481","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default 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