Organizations Evolving offers a unique theoretical framework for understanding organizational emergence, persistence, change, and decline. Synthesizing and integrating six paradigmatic approaches to organization theory, this updated and revised third edition presents an evolutionary view that provides a unified understanding of modern organizations and organization theory.

Key features of the third edition include:

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• A sophisticated analytic comparison of six major approaches to understanding modern organizations and their evolution
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• An interdisciplinary focus, drawing extensively from sociology, social psychology, economics, history, management and entrepreneurship research
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• Supplementary materials from academic journals and the popular press, and multi-media resources in an online companion
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• Extensive case examples that illustrate key evolutionary processes
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• Study questions designed for extended and reflective learning.

Offering key insights and critical learning opportunities, this book is crucial reading for classes covering macro-organizational behaviour and the sociology of organizations. Students of management studies and entrepreneurship, particularly those with a focus on organization theory, will also benefit from its interdisciplinary approach.

About the Author
Howard E. Aldrich, Kenan Professor of Sociology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Martin Ruef, Jack and Pamela Egan Professor of Entrepreneurship, Department of Sociology, Duke University and Stephen Lippmann, Associate Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology and Gerontology, Miami University, US

Reviews
'Organizations Evolving is an instant classic. The go-to book for information about the future, as well as what s current in organizations studies. It follows Aldrich's pioneering work on entrepreneurship, with great cases, on-line supplements, and updates on digital technology and inequality. For the best primer on the study of organizations, Organizations Evolving is the clear winner.' --Paul M. Hirsch, Northwestern University, US

Organizations evolve and emerge. Aldrich, Ruef and Lippmann introduce a generic framework for understanding organizational and social change. The authors are in this third edition informatively and beautifully integrating evolving knowledge about organizations. The previous edition of Organizations Evolving was my favorite book about organization. This edition is even better.' --Morten Huse, BI Norwegian Business School, Norway

'Organizations Evolving synthesizes in an excellent way the evolution of organizations, and clarifies the elegance of the evolutionary approach in using a few distinct concepts to explain broad and complex phenomena. In the third edition of the book, the authors have significantly updated the book, and made it more teaching friendly, which makes it a great textbook for understanding entrepreneurship and organizations.' --Hans Landstroem, Lund University, Sweden

Book Information
ISBN 9781788970297
Author Howard E. Aldrich
Format Paperback
Page Count 384
Imprint Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
Publisher Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd