| Sumario: | "When Organizations and Environments was originally issued in 1979, it increased interest in evolutionary explanations of organisational change. Since then, scholars and practitioners have widely cited the book for its innovative answer to this question: Under what conditions do organisations change? Aldrich achieves theoretical integration across 13 chapters by using an evolutionary model that captures the essential features of relations between organisations and their environments. This model explains organisational change by focusing on the processes of variation, selection, retention, and struggle. The 'environment,' as conceived by Aldrich, does not refer simply to elements 'out there' — beyond a set of focal organisations — but rather to concentrations of resources, power, political domination, and most concretely, other organisations. Scholars using Aldrich’s model have examined the societal context within which founders create organisations and whether those organisations survive or fail, rise to prominence, or sink into obscurity."--Contracubierta
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