Skip to main content
Presented to you through Paradigm Publishing Services

Princeton University Press

Visit our Partner Page See all our books
book: The Demography of Corporations and Industries
Book
Licensed
Unlicensed Requires Authentication

The Demography of Corporations and Industries

  • and
Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2018

About this book

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.

Author / Editor information

Glenn R. Carroll is the Paul J. Cortese Distinguished Professor of Management at the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley. Michael T. Hannan is the StrataCom Professor of Management and Professor of Sociology at Stanford University.

Reviews

"A compelling contribution that is destined to be a mandatory addition to the bookshelves of the beginner and the advanced scholar and a testament to the vigor and reach of the ecological program of research."---Hayagreeva Rao, Administrative Science Quarterly --- "The Demography of Corporations and Industries [is] . . . the reference book on the subject."---Hallie J. Kintner, Population Studies --- "This is one of the most scientific textbooks in the field. . . . [It] serves as an (almost) ideal example for students and scholars alike, and it is highly relevant for nearly everybody interested in organizations, policy, management, strategy, and contingency. Students of modernity will also find much of interest."---Jeroen Bruggeman, Contemporary Sociology --- "Destined to become the standard reference . . . Caroll and Hannan admirably chronicle the first steps toward legitimizing organizational demography as a distinct specialist form."---David Knoke, American Journal of Sociology --- "Glenn R. Carroll and Michael T. Hannan, Co-Winners of the 2002 Max Weber Award"

Topics

  • Publicly Available

    Frontmatter

    i
    Download PDF
  • Publicly Available

    Contents

    vii
    Download PDF
  • Requires Authentication Unlicensed
    Licensed

    List of Figures

    xi
    Download PDF
  • Requires Authentication Unlicensed
    Licensed

    List of Tables

    xv
    Download PDF
  • Requires Authentication Unlicensed
    Licensed

    Preface

    xix
    Download PDF
  • Requires Authentication Unlicensed
    Licensed

    Acknowledgments

    xxvii
    Download PDF
  • Part I.THE CASE FOR CORPORATE DEMOGRAPHY
  • Requires Authentication Unlicensed
    Licensed

    1. About Organizations

    3
    Download PDF
  • Requires Authentication Unlicensed
    Licensed

    2. The Demographic Perspective

    17
    Download PDF
  • Requires Authentication Unlicensed
    Licensed

    3. Toward a Corporate Demography

    35
    Download PDF
  • Requires Authentication Unlicensed
    Licensed

    4. Forms and Populations

    59
    Download PDF
  • Part II.METHODS OF CORPORATE DEMOGRAPHY
  • Requires Authentication Unlicensed
    Licensed

    5. Observation Plans

    85
    Download PDF
  • Requires Authentication Unlicensed
    Licensed

    6. Analyzing Vital Rates

    101
    Download PDF
  • Requires Authentication Unlicensed
    Licensed

    7. Modeling Corporate Vital Rates

    135
    Download PDF
  • Requires Authentication Unlicensed
    Licensed

    8. Demographic Data Sources

    163
    Download PDF
  • Part III. POPULATION PROCESSES
  • Requires Authentication Unlicensed
    Licensed

    9. Organizational Environments

    193
    Download PDF
  • Requires Authentication Unlicensed
    Licensed

    10. Density-Dependent Processes I

    213
    Download PDF
  • Requires Authentication Unlicensed
    Licensed

    11. Density-Dependent Processes II

    239
    Download PDF
  • Requires Authentication Unlicensed
    Licensed

    12. Segregating Processes

    261
    Download PDF
  • Part IV.ORGANIZATIONAL PROCESSES
  • Requires Authentication Unlicensed
    Licensed

    13. Age-Dependent Processes

    281
    Download PDF
  • Requires Authentication Unlicensed
    Licensed

    14. Size Dependence

    313
    Download PDF
  • Requires Authentication Unlicensed
    Licensed

    15. Initial Mobilizing

    339
    Download PDF
  • Requires Authentication Unlicensed
    Licensed

    16. Organizational Transformation

    357
    Download PDF
  • Part V.SELECTED IMPLICATIONS
  • Requires Authentication Unlicensed
    Licensed

    17. Organization Theory

    383
    Download PDF
  • Requires Authentication Unlicensed
    Licensed

    18.Regulation

    401
    Download PDF
  • Requires Authentication Unlicensed
    Licensed

    19. Employment

    423
    Download PDF
  • Requires Authentication Unlicensed
    Licensed

    20. Organizational Diversity

    439
    Download PDF
  • Requires Authentication Unlicensed
    Licensed

    References

    453
    Download PDF
  • Requires Authentication Unlicensed
    Licensed

    Index

    481
    Download PDF

Publishing information
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
eBook published on:
November 19, 2018
eBook ISBN:
9780691186795
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
View content
https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691186795
eBook ISBN: 9780691186795
Keywords for this book
Demography; Organization; Corporation; Conglomerate (company); Corporate identity; Industrial society; Mortality rate; CEO succession; Executive search; Companies House; Mergers and acquisitions; Estimation; Business ethics; Employment; Economic history; Industrial policy; Credit union; Churning (finance); Organizational life cycle; Organizational analysis; Economic Life; Organizational studies; Business failure; Competition (economics); Unemployment; Financial accounting; Economic forces; The General Theory of Employment; Interest and Money; Business plan; Industrial production; Internal labor market; Industry analyst; Endogeneity (econometrics); Capitalism; Analytical procedures (finance auditing); Merger guidelines; Demographic analysis; Nationalization; Population process; Business loan; The Division of Labour in Society; Diversification (finance); Tax; Vital rates; Resource depletion; Management consulting; Diversification (marketing strategy); Trade barrier; Knowledge spillover; Financial ratio; Recession; Deregulation; Executive education; Organizational identity; Organizational theory; Joint-stock company; Strategic business unit; Venture capital; Financial crisis; Economy; System sales; Leveraged buyout; Trade association; Economic geography; Economy of the United States; Organizational behavior; State-owned enterprise; Business development; Financial intermediary; Investment banking
Audience(s) for this book
For an expert adult audience, including professional development and academic research
Downloaded on 29.4.2026 from https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9780691186795/html?lang=en
Scroll to top button