The Demography of Corporations and Industries.(Book Review)

From: Administrative Science Quarterly | Date: September 1, 2002| Author: | Copyright information

Glenn R. Carroll and Michael T. Hannan. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2000. 490 pp. $55.00.

This volume is both a systematic restatement and extension of organizational ecology. The title signals Carroll and Hannan's emphasis on the continuity between "the theory, models and methods of general demography with those of comparable investigations of the organizational world" (p. xx). It is also motivated by the recognition that much of the published work in organizational ecology has a demographic flavor and focuses on "variations in vital rates for organizational ...

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