How do enterprises evolve? Stemming from Charles Darwin's seminal work The Origin of Species (185... more How do enterprises evolve? Stemming from Charles Darwin's seminal work The Origin of Species (1859), this standing track in the Research Methods and Research Practice SIG at EURAM seeks to contribute to the lively critical discussion about the possibility and opportunity to develop an evolutionary epistemology in management research. Scholars have provided much debate on what common features and differences exist in how organisms and organizations behave. Thus, as in the previous years, the track aims to attract papers interested in elaborating on whether important phenomena associated with the current practice of business can be conscientiously explained through the partial (or general) adoption of Charles Darwin's thought in social sciences. Examples include the studying of global issues such as the current financial crisis; the different rates of organizational birth and death worldwide; the competition or integration between social systems, national and international communities; the diverse adoption of technological innovation, and even the way through which culture, beliefs, values and norms diffuse. The track aims to build on a constantly growing body of evolution-based research within a wide range of disciplines such as management, organization, decision making, entrepreneurship and innovation, economic geography, philosophy and psychology. This is why, from both conceptual and methodological points of view, the track is open to all the various (and also cross-disciplinary) approaches flourished in the enterprise evolution research area over time. Thus, perspectives based on multi-level co-evolution, system thinking, ecology, memes, or agent-based modelling, constitute only examples of the welcomed submissions. In line with the EURAM 2018 Conference theme, submissions with a strong practitioner orientation are also particularly encouraged.
How do enterprises evolve? Stemming from Charles Darwin's seminal work The Origin of Species (185... more How do enterprises evolve? Stemming from Charles Darwin's seminal work The Origin of Species (1859), this standing track in the Research Methods and Research Practice SIG at EURAM seeks to contribute to the lively critical discussion about the possibility and opportunity to develop an evolutionary epistemology in management research. Scholars have provided much debate on what common features and differences exist in how organisms and organizations behave. Thus, as in the previous years, the track aims to attract papers interested in elaborating on whether important phenomena associated with the current practice of business can be conscientiously explained through the partial (or general) adoption of Charles Darwin's thought in social sciences. Examples include the studying of global issues such as the current financial crisis; the different rates of organizational birth and death worldwide; the competition or integration between social systems, national and international communities; the diverse adoption of technological innovation, and even the way through which culture, beliefs, values and norms diffuse. The track aims to build on a constantly growing body of evolution-based research within a wide range of disciplines such as management, organization, decision making, entrepreneurship and innovation, economic geography, philosophy and psychology. This is why, from both conceptual and methodological points of view, the track is open to all the various (and also cross-disciplinary) approaches flourished in the enterprise evolution research area over time. Thus, perspectives based on multi-level co-evolution, system thinking, ecology, memes, or agent-based modelling, constitute only examples of the welcomed submissions. In line with the EURAM 2018 Conference theme, submissions with a strong practitioner orientation are also particularly encouraged.
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