(R)Evolution
(R)Evolution organizations and the dynamics of the environment Rob Dekkers
Publisher: New York : Springer, c2005.
ISBN: 6610312117
DDC: 658.406
LCC: HD58.9
Edition: (electronic bk.)
Notes:
Title from e-book title screen (viewed October 16, 2007).
Includes bibliographical references (p. [387]-406) and index.
Cover -- Preface -- Table of Contents -- PROLOGUE -- 1 INTRODUCTION
-- 1.1 Challenges for Industrial Management -- 1.2 Problem Domain --
1.3 Outline of Research -- 1.4 Summary -- 2 STAGNATION AND EVOLUTION
IN INDUSTRY -- 2.1 Social-Economical Development of the Netherlands
-- 2.2 Growth of the Aviation Industry -- 2.3 Indications about
Industrial Change -- 2.4 Summary -- 3 EVOLUTION AS MODEL FOR BUSINESS
GROWTH -- 3.1 Social-economical Perspectives -- 3.2 Organisational
Ecology -- 3.3 Evolution of Organisations -- 3.4 Developmental
Pathways for Organisations -- 3.5 Flexibility and Changeability --
3.6 Brief Review of Existing Evolutionary Approaches -- 3.7 Summary
-- 4 RESEARCH OBJECTIVES AND METHODOLOGY -- 4.1 Research Objectives
and Proposition -- 4.2 Research Domain -- 4.3 Research Methodology --
4.4 Summary -- PART I: EVOLUTIONARY MODELS FOR ORGANISATIONS -- 5
INTERACTION BETWEEN ORGANISATION AND ENVIRONMENT AS EVOLUTIONARY
PROCESS -- 5.1 Homeostasis and Change -- 5.2 Comparing Organisations
and Organisms -- 5.3 Dynamics of the Environment -- 5.4 Summary -- 6
EVOLUTIONARY MODELS FOR GENETIC VARIATION -- 6.1 Incremental
Variation as Base for Gradual Change -- 6.2 Disruption as Base for
the Punctuated Equilibrium -- 6.3 Emergence of Macromutations -- 6.4
Evolutionary Processes at Different Levels -- 6.5 Conversion of
Variation to the Domain of Organisations -- 6.6 Summary -- 7
LANDSCAPE FITNESS AND ADAPTATION -- 7.1 Natural Selection -- 7.2
Landscape Fitness -- 7.3 Game Theories and Adaptations to the
Environment -- 7.4 Autopoiesis -- 7.5 Selection and Landscape Fitness
for the Domain of Organisations -- 7.6 Summary -- 8 REFERENCE MODEL
AND HYPOTHESES FOR THE EVOLUTION OF ORGANISATIONS -- 8.1 Internal
Processes and Structures Interacting with the Environment -- 8.2
Hypotheses linked to the Evolutionary Biological Models -- 8.3 Review
of the Existing Models for Evolution of Organisations -- 8.4 Summary
-- 9 CONCLUDING EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY -- 9.1 Streams of Thought -- 9.2
View of the Creationists -- 9.3 Adaptation of Industrial
Organisations to the Dynamics of the Environment -- 9.4 Further
Research into the Evolution of Organisations -- PART II: REVIEW OF
MANAGEMENT APPROACHES -- 10 TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT AND INNOVATION --
10.1 Technological Discontinuity -- 10.2 Product Innovation as Key
Point for Adapting -- 10.3 Implementation of Technology and
Innovation -- 10.4 Adaptation Capability of Technology and Innovation
-- 10.5 Summary -- 11 PROCESS INNOVATION AND BUSINESS PROCESS
RE-ENGINEERING -- 11.1 Process Innovation for Meeting Performance
Requirements -- 11.2 Implementation of Process Innovation and
Business Process Re-Engineering... -- 11.3 Adaptation Capability of
Process Innovation and Business Process Re - Engineering -- 11.4
Summary -- 12 LEARNING ORGANISATION AND KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT -- 12.1
Learning Organisation -- 12.2 Knowledge Management -- 12.3 Continuous
Improvement -- 12.4 Implementation of Learning Organisation and
Knowledge Management... -- 12.5 Adaptation Capability of the Learning
Organisation, Knowledge Management, and Continuous Improvement --
12.6 S ummary -- 13 PRELUDIN.
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