Variations in Organization Science: In Honor of Donald T Campbell

Variations in Organization Science celebrates Donald T Campbell′s many contributions to organization science, presenting new variations which stem directly from his work. Contributing authors review and extend Campbell′s theories in four major areas: blind variation, selection and retention especially inside firms; multilevel co-evolution in organizational parts and wholes; process level analysis and modeling epistemology and methodology. The book includes an unusual appendix, Donald T Campbell′s curriculum vitae.

Author: Joel A. C. Baum, Bill McKelvey
Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
Published: 05/21/1999
Pages: 464
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 2.33lbs
Size: 10.20h x 6.98w x 1.20d
ISBN: 9780761911258

About the Author
McKelvey, Bill: - Bill McKelvey received his Ph.D. from MIT in 1967 and is currently Professor of Strategic Organizing and Complexity Science at the UCLA. His book, Organizational Systematics (1982) remains the definitive treatment of organizational evolution and taxonomy. In 1997 he became Director of the Center for Rescuing Strategy and Organization Science (SOS). He was a founder of UCLA's Center for Human Complex Systems & Computational Social Science. Recently McKelvey co-edited Variations in Organization Science (1999) and a special issue of the journal, Emergence. Forthcoming book is: Complexity Dynamics in Organizations: Applications of Order-Creation Science (Cambridge University Press).