Culture And Demography In Organizations

Author : J. Richard Harrison,Glenn R. Carroll
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2021-07-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780691233192

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Culture and Demography in Organizations by J. Richard Harrison,Glenn R. Carroll Pdf

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.

Author : Martin Chemers,Stuart Oskamp,Mark Constanzo
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1995-07-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781506339702

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Diversity in Organizations by Martin Chemers,Stuart Oskamp,Mark Constanzo Pdf

The changing demography of the workforce presents challenges and opportunities to individuals and to the organizations of which they are a part. This volume examines how diversity in organizations affords benefits such as a broader talent pool, but at the same time can lead to tension, misunderstanding and, at times, outright hostility.

Author : Glenn R. Carroll,Michael T. Hannan
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 521 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2018-06-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780691186795

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The Demography of Corporations and Industries by Glenn R. Carroll,Michael T. Hannan Pdf

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.

Author : Stewart Clegg,James R. Bailey
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 2009 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781412915151

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International Encyclopedia of Organization Studies by Stewart Clegg,James R. Bailey Pdf

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.

Author : Susan Cartwright,Cary Cooper,P. Christopher Earley
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 646 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2001-03-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105025354106

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The International Handbook of Organizational Culture and Climate by Susan Cartwright,Cary Cooper,P. Christopher Earley Pdf

Organizational culture and climate continues to engage academic interest and debate. Culture has increasingly been linked to a diverse range of individuals and organizational behaviours. However, despite the international interest and importance of the concept, the dominant literature in this field has tended to reflect an Anglo-US model and perspective. There are no significant texts which have attempted to combine and integrate the more traditional with the more emergent perspective. This book will be the first volume to offer authoritative, critical and comprehensive discussion and information on the topic. It will review the current state of the art in terms of the theoretical and methodological issues and problems and it will consider future research directions.

Author : Heather A. Haveman
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2022-12-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780691241807

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The Power of Organizations by Heather A. Haveman Pdf

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.

Author : Glenn R. Carroll,Michael T. Hannan
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2004-07-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0691120153

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The Demography of Corporations and Industries by Glenn R. Carroll,Michael T. Hannan Pdf

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.

Author : Glenn Carroll
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Corporate culture
ISBN : UCSD:31822021342415

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Organizational Demography and Culture by Glenn Carroll Pdf

Author : Newton, Cameron,Knight, Ruth
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2022-02-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781788976268

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Handbook of Research Methods for Organisational Culture by Newton, Cameron,Knight, Ruth Pdf

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.

Author : Scheherazade Taylor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015060016907

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Relational Demography, Perceptions of Organizational Culture, and Affective Outcomes Among Registered Nurses by Scheherazade Taylor Pdf

Author : George Hawley
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2017-05-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781498548403

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Demography, Culture, and the Decline of America’s Christian Denominations by George Hawley Pdf

This book examines the state of Christianity in the United States, considering trends in religious beliefs and affiliation over the last forty years. It seeks to explain why so many of America’s largest denominations have witnessed such a dramatic decline during this period. It argues that, although there are many elements to this decline, the shrinking families of Americans—including American Christians—are a primary explanation for our aging and shrinking Christian congregations. Beyond establishing this explanation for organized decline, this book also offers a survey of the relevant research explaining why more and more Americans are deferring family formation and having fewer (in many cases, zero) children. It discusses the relevant social science research on this subject, which focuses heavily on the role of economic change. It also summarizes the relevant research on cultural change and the family, particularly the relationship between religious beliefs and activities and changing family norms.

Author : Martin Baumüller
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 303911168X

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Managing Cultural Diversity by Martin Baumüller Pdf

The effects of globalization require that multinational corporations (MNCs) coordinate their differentiated but interdependent organizational parts and align them to a common purpose. This book examines the mechanisms that such organizations use to govern their global subsidiary networks. The book starts with a review of key concepts and theories of multinational organizations and explains the rationale for their existence. Based on this assessment and an empirical study of three globally operating entities, the author develops a framework for examining the cultural and structural governance mechanisms that multinational corporations may employ to coordinate their global operations. This framework identifies different configurations of cultural and structural governance mechanisms and explains what kind of configuration a multinational organization should employ to ensure efficient governance.

Author : Karen M. Barbera
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 752 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2014-05-07
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780199860722

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The Oxford Handbook of Organizational Climate and Culture by Karen M. Barbera Pdf

The Oxford Handbook of Organizational Climate and Culture presents the breadth of topics from Industrial and Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior through the lenses of organizational climate and culture. The Handbook reveals in great detail how in both research and practice climate and culture reciprocally influence each other. The details reveal the many practices that organizations use to acquire, develop, manage, motivate, lead, and treat employees both at home and in the multinational settings that characterize contemporary organizations. Chapter authors are both expert in their fields of research and also represent current climate and culture practice in five national and international companies (3M, McDonald's, the Mayo Clinic, PepsiCo and Tata). In addition, new approaches to the collection and analysis of climate and culture data are presented as well as new thinking about organizational change from an integrated climate and culture paradigm. No other compendium integrates climate and culture thinking like this Handbook does and no other compendium presents both an up-to-date review of the theory and research on the many facets of climate and culture as well as contemporary practice. The Handbook takes a climate and culture vantage point on micro approaches to human issues at work (recruitment and hiring, training and performance management, motivation and fairness) as well as organizational processes (teams, leadership, careers, communication), and it also explicates the fact that these are lodged within firms that function in larger national and international contexts.

Author : Eric H. Kessler
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 1053 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781452276083

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Encyclopedia of Management Theory by Eric H. Kessler Pdf

In discussing a management topic, scholars, educators, practitioners, and the media often toss out the name of a theorist (Taylor, Simon, Weber) or make a sideways reference to a particular theory (bureaucracy, total quality management, groupthink) and move on, as if assuming their audience possesses the necessary background to appreciate and integrate the reference. This is often far from the case. Individuals are frequently forced to seek out a hodgepodge of sources varying in quality and presentation to provide an overview of a particular idea. This work is designed to serve as a core reference for anyone interested in the essentials of contemporary management theory. Drawing together a team of international scholars, it examines the global landscape of the key theories and the theorists behind them, presenting them in the context needed to understand their strengths and weaknesses to thoughtfully apply them. In addition to interpretations of long-established theories, it also offers essays on cutting-edge research as one might find in a handbook. And, like an unabridged dictionary, it provides concise, to-the-point definitions of key concepts, ideas, schools, and figures. Features and Benefits: Two volumes containing over 280 signed entries provide users with the most authoritative and thorough reference resources available on management theory, both in terms of breadth and depth of coverage. Standardized presentation format, organized into categories based on validity and importance, structures entries so that readers can assess the fundamentals, evolution, and impact of theories. To ease navigation between and among related entries, a Reader’s Guide groups entries thematically and each entry is followed by Cross-References. In the electronic version, the Reader’s Guide combines with the Cross-References and a detailed Index to provide robust search-and-browse capabilities. An appendix with a Chronology of Management Theory allows readers to easily chart directions and trends in thought and theory from early times to the present. An appendix with Central Management Insights allows readers to easily understand, compare, and apply major theoretical messages of the field. Suggestions for Further Reading at the end of each entry guide readers to sources for more detailed research and discussion. Key themes include: Nature of Management Managing People, Personality, and Perception Managing Motivation Managing Interactions Managing Groups Managing Organizations Managing Environments Strategic Management Human Resources Management International Management and Diversity Managerial Decision Making, Ethics, and Creativity Management Education, Research, and Consulting Management of Operations, Quality, and Information Systems Management of Entrepreneurship Management of Learning and Change Management of Technology and Innovation Management and Leadership Management and Social / Environmental Issues PLUS: Appendix of Chronology of Management Theory PLUS: Appendix of Central Management Insights

Author : Anne S. Tsui,Barbara A. Gutek
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0739100564

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Demographic Differences in Organizations by Anne S. Tsui,Barbara A. Gutek Pdf

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