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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Carroll, Glenn R.,; Hannan, Michael T.,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2018]; ©2000
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Part I.THE CASE FOR CORPORATE DEMOGRAPHY -- 1. About Organizations -- 2. The Demographic Perspective -- 3. Toward a Corporate Demography -- 4. Forms and Populations -- Part II.METHODS OF CORPORATE DEMOGRAPHY -- 5. Observation Plans -- 6. Analyzing Vital Rates -- 7. Modeling Corporate Vital Rates -- 8. Demographic Data Sources -- Part III. POPULATION PROCESSES -- 9. Organizational Environments -- 10. Density-Dependent Processes I -- 11. Density-Dependent Processes II -- 12. Segregating Processes -- Part IV.ORGANIZATIONAL PROCESSES -- 13. Age-Dependent Processes -- 14. Size Dependence -- 15. Initial Mobilizing -- 16. Organizational Transformation -- Part V.SELECTED IMPLICATIONS -- 17. Organization Theory -- 18.Regulation -- 19. Employment -- 20. Organizational Diversity -- References -- Index