Doctoral Dissertation Research: The Emergence and Evolution of an Organizational Population: Management Consulting Firms in the United States, 1886-1997

博士论文研究：组织群体的出现和演变：美国的管理咨询公司，1886-1997

• 批准号: 9906963
• 负责人: Elizabeth Mannix
• 金额: $ 0.73万
• 依托单位: Cornell University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1999
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1999-08-15 至 2000-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9906963&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Emergence; Evolution

The emergence of new populations of organizations represents an important source of social change. New types of organizations generate novel products, services, and working arrangements within societies. As a population grows, it takes on increasing importance, e.g., by employing more people, serving more customers, and creating more dependence on its outputs. Researchers in organizational sociology have long sought to understand how organizational populations emerge and evolve. This doctoral dissertation research addresses three critical questions: How does the environment within which a population of organizations is embedded affect its evolution? How do differences between organizations within a population affect their interaction? And how does organizational change affect survival and growth? These questions will be addressed through an analysis of the population of U.S. management consulting firms over its entire history, 1886-1997. Archival sources and interviews will be used to construct a longitudinal database containing organization-level data for each firm in each year. Hypotheses for the effects of entrepreneurs, environmental conditions, and major events on population evolution will be tested. The results will contribute to theory-building efforts in organizational sociology, as well as furnish a detailed analysis of an important population of organizations.

新的组织群体的出现是社会变革的一个重要来源。新型组织产生了新的产品、服务和社会内部的工作安排。随着人口的增长，它的重要性越来越大，例如，通过雇用更多的人，服务更多的客户，并创造更多的依赖其产出。长期以来，组织社会学的研究人员一直试图了解组织人口是如何产生和演变的。这篇博士论文的研究解决了三个关键问题：一群组织所处的环境如何影响其演变？人口中组织之间的差异如何影响他们的互动？组织变革如何影响生存和成长？这些问题将通过分析美国管理咨询公司在其整个历史（1886-1997）中的人口来解决。档案来源和访谈将用于构建一个纵向数据库，其中包含每个公司每年的组织级数据。企业家，环境条件和重大事件对人口演变的影响的假设将被测试。研究结果将有助于组织社会学的理论建设工作，以及提供一个重要的人口组织的详细分析。