Variations in Organization Science celebrates Donald T. Campbell's many contributions to organization science, presenting new variations which stem directly from his work. Contributing authors review and extend Campbell's theories in four major areas: blind variation, selection and retention especially inside firms; multilevel co-evolution in organizational parts and wholes; process level analysis and modeling epistemology and methodology. The book includes an unusual appendix, Donald T. Campbell's curriculum vitae.

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Blind (but Not Unconditioned) Variation: Problems of Copying in Sociocultural Evolution

Blind (but Not Unconditioned) Variation: Problems of Copying in Sociocultural Evolution

Blind (but not unconditioned) variation: Problems of copying in sociocultural evolution
ElaineRomanelli

Throughout both the theoretical and practical worlds of modern organizations, we discover a pervasive belief that successful change in one organizational or social system ...

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