Testing a Theory of Group Growth and Decline

检验群体成长和衰退的理论

• 批准号: 9308326
• 负责人: Joseph McPherson
• 金额: $ 5.53万
• 依托单位: University of Arizona
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1993
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1993-09-01 至 1996-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9308326&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Testing; Theory; Group; Growth; Decline

9308326 McPherson This research will test a theory arguing that groups gain and lose members through the social network connections between individuals, and through competition between groups for the time and other resources of the people in the community. A previous NSF grant gathered data on 1050 individuals and 254 groups in 10 communities. This new project will test group level hypotheses through inductive coding and analysis of group level data, and it will make the group data available to the public. The project will significantly expand scientific understanding of the dynamics of growth and decline of organizations, with potential benefit for corporations and voluntary groups as well as advancing basic sociological theory. ***

9308326麦克弗森这项研究将检验一种理论，该理论认为，群体通过个人之间的社交网络联系，以及群体之间对时间和社区中人的其他资源的竞争，获得和失去成员。NSF之前的一项拨款收集了10个社区的1050个人和254个团体的数据。这个新项目将通过对群体层面数据的归纳编码和分析来检验群体层面的假设，并将群体数据向公众开放。该项目将极大地扩大对组织兴衰动态的科学理解，对公司和志愿团体以及促进社会学基本理论具有潜在的益处。***