Table of contents - Special Issue: Innovative uses of evolutionary/ecological approaches in the study and understanding of organizations
Guest Editors: Colin Jones, Dermot Breslin
Organizational adaptation: an update
Gianpaolo AbatecolaThe purpose of the article is to contribute to the debate on organizational adaptation by providing both scholars and practitioners with reasoned observations as to where this…
The evolution of entrepreneurial learning
Dermot Breslin, Colin JonesThe purpose of this paper is to present an evolutionary perspective on entrepreneurial learning, whilst also accounting for fundamental ecological processes, by focusing on the…
Characterizing the evolution of commercial organizational spaces
Stephen DobsonThe analogy of the city as an evolving system is an enduring one that is both universally acknowledged and greatly researched in equal measure. The purpose of this paper is to…
An extra‐memetic empirical methodology to accompany theoretical memetics
Jameson GillThe purpose of this paper is to describe the difficulties encountered by researchers who are looking to operationalise theoretical memetics and provide a methodological avenue for…
The selfish signifier: meaning, virulence and transmissibility in a management fashion
Ilfryn PriceManagement fashions can be, and have been, conceptualized as narrative elements competing for replication and resources in the wider managerial discourse. Most wax and wane…
Reviving organisational memetics through Cultural Linnæanism
Andrew Sinclair LordThe initial purpose of this paper is to review the explanatory power that memetics promised for socio‐cultural evolutionary theory, for organisational adaptation, and emergent…
ISSN:
1934-8835Renamed from:
Organizational AnalysisOnline date, start – end:
2005Copyright Holder:
Emerald Publishing LimitedOpen Access:
hybridEditor:
- Prof Peter Stokes