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Culture and Demography in Organizations

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How do corporations and other organizations maintain and transmit their cultures over time? Culture and Demography in Organizations offers the most reliable and comprehensive answer to this complex question to date. The first book on the subject to ground its analysis in mathematical tools and computer simulation, it goes beyond standard approaches, which focus on socialization within organizations, by explicitly considering the effects of demographic processes of entry, exit, and organizational growth.


J. Richard Harrison and Glenn R. Carroll base their analysis on a formal model with three components: hiring, socialization, and employee turnover. In exploring the model's implications through computer simulation methods, the authors cover topics such as organizational growth and decline, top management teams, organizational influence networks, terrorist organizations, cultural integration following mergers, and organizational failure. For each topic, they identify the conditions influencing cultural transmission. In general, they find that demographic processes play a central role in influencing organizational culture and that studying these processes leads to some surprising insights unavailable when considering socialization alone. This book, which also serves as an ideal introduction to the increasingly popular use of computer simulation, will be an indispensable resource for scholars and students of organization theory and behavior, cultural studies, strategic management, sociology, economics, and social simulation.

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J. Richard Harrison Associate Professor of Organizations, Strategy, and International Management at the University of Texas, Dallas. Glenn R. Carroll is Laurence W. Lane Professor of Organizations at the Graduate School of Business, and (by courtesy) Professor of Sociology at Stanford University. He is also Professor in the Management Division of the Graduate School of Business, and (by courtesy) Professor of Sociology at Columbia University. He is coauthor of The Demography of Corporations and Industries (Princeton).

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"Harrison and Carroll have written an invaluable book on organizational culture. They inform us about organizational culture and demography through a synthesis that gives us new insights on what culture is and how it can be managed.... In short, Harrison and Carroll have contributed greatly to our understanding of culture and demography and to the methodology of our science."---Richard M. Burton, Administrative Science Quarterly

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    Frontmatter

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    Contents

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    List of Figures

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    List of Tables

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    Preface

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    Acknowledgments

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  • Part I Cultural Analysis
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    CHAPTER 1 Culture in Organizations

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    CHAPTER 2 Modeling Culture with Simulation

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  • Part II Model of Cultural Transmission
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    CHAPTER 3 Representing Culture

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    CHAPTER 4 Cultural Transmission

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    CHAPTER 5 Organizational Types

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    CHAPTER 6 Growth and Decline

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  • Part III Applications and Extensions of the Model
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    CHAPTER 7 Heterogeneity in Tenure

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    CHAPTER 8 Cultural Influence Networks

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    CHAPTER 9 Terrorist Networks

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    CHAPTER 10 Merging Cultures

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    CHAPTER 11 Culture, Aging, and Failure

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    CHAPTER 12 Concluding Remarks

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    Appendix A Notation

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    Appendix B Simulation Parameter Settings

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    References

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    Index

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Keywords for this book
Organizational culture; Simulation; Demography; Enculturation; Standard deviation; Organization; Parameter; Research program; Cultural analysis; Network model; Organizational theory; Cultural assimilation; Formal organization; Social science; Supervisor; Employment; Hofstede's cultural dimensions theory; Theory; Measurement; University of Southern California; Organizational structure; Socialization; Finding; Simulation modeling; Counter-terrorism; Function (mathematics); Regression model; Computer simulation; Probability; Explanation; Clandestine cell system; Calculation; Causality; Recruitment; Organizational ecology; Layoff; Organizational analysis; Cornell University; Organizational studies; Public policy; Estimation; Culture; Organizational behavior; Scientific method; Inference; Computational model; Operationalization; Variance; Social reality; Sensitivity analysis; Social movement; Sampling (statistics); Subculture; Population dynamics; Organizational performance; Performance measurement; Culture change; Ownership (psychology); Human Potential Movement; Cultural icon; Sleeper agent; Stochastic; Statistical significance; Illustration; Group dynamics; Holism; Weighting; Level of analysis; Cultural studies; Structural functionalism
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