Evolutionary Perspectives
ISBN
978-0631235361
Type
book section
Date Issued
2015-01-21
Author(s)
Abstract
Evolutionary perspectives contend that complex structures in the social and the biological world have developed over time through causal processes that require little or no foresight but considerable trial and error. Evolutionary thought in organizational analysis comprises two distinct intellectual lines. The first, concerned with organizational change, relies to a considerable extent on a selection logic in which change comes about through the birth and death of individual entities that make up a population of similar things. This account of change contrasts sharply with theories in which omniscient actors perfectly transform individual entities to meet new environmental conditions. The second line of evolutionary thought draws on evolutionary psychology to explain the behavior of human beings in organizational settings in terms of the evolved nature of the human mind and body
Language
English
HSG Classification
contribution to scientific community
Book title
The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Management
Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell Publishing
Volume
11
Start page
114
End page
115
Pages
2
Subject(s)
Division(s)
Contact Email Address
peter.murmann@unisg.ch
Eprints ID
255472
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