Collaborative Research on Organizational Processes in the Production of Culture

这一合作项目是对组织研究项目的延伸和扩展。调查人员确定传播重要政治和社会价值观的组织，并研究这些组织如何发展和衰落。他们正在开发一个基于空间扩散和组织属性模型的组织生态模型。这项研究有助于发展一种文化比较理论，将文化生产与组织的变化、历史变化和环境条件联系起来。特别是，PI希望提高对美国大学中选民投票率下降和组织失败等现象的理解。

This collaborative project extends and expands a research project on organizations. The investigators identify organizations which transmit important political and social values, and study how those organizations grow and decline. They are developing a model of the ecology of organizations based on models of spatial diffusion and organizational properties. The research aids in developing a comparative theory of culture relating culture production to changes in organizations, historical change, and environmental conditions. In particular, PIs hope to improve understanding of such phenomena as declining voter turnout and organizational failures among U.S. universities.