Organizations Evolving

by Howard Aldrich

Winner of the 2000 Max Weber prize , awarded by the Section on Organizations, Occupations, and Work , of the American Sociological Association , for the best book on organizations published in the past 3 years! `This book is an exceptional accomplishment and is compulsory reading for all organizational researchers′- Hayagreeva Rao, Emory University `Organizations Evolving is precisely what this book is about. In a richly textured way, Howard Aldrich gives the reader a distinctive feel for the subject and a way to think about and understand emergence and change in organizations. [The book] is informative and engaging. It is playful and rigorous. It is scholarly and quite prac

Genres: Business

432 pages, Hardcover

First published October 19, 1999

Reviews

[Matthias · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a good book if you’re academically inclined and have an interest in seriously reading about the applicability of the evolutionary perspective to organizations. If you aren’t that type of person, then I would not recommend this book. It is both dense and extremely dry.

[Alex Sachon · Rating 5 out of 5]

the study of human social evolution is much studied, but what few grasp is that the process of organizational evolution is a critical aspect to this story and it's much understudied. This book is vital in understanding this process, especially if you're seeking to bridge gaps in understanding between those who study past societies and those who study modern ones.