Economics, Management, Motivational, Organizational Change, Structural Adjustment 

1. Introduction and Themes -- Our goals for this book -- Organizations: an overview -- 2. The Evolutionary Approach -- Evolutionary processes -- Research illustration 2.1: The evolution of bureaucracy -- Research design in evolutionary analysis -- 3. How the Evolutionary Approach Relates to Other Approaches -- The ecological approach -- The institutional approach -- The interpretive approach -- The organizational learning approach -- The resource dependence approach -- The transaction cost economizing approach -- Summary: the six perspectives -- 4. Entrepreneurs and the Emergence of New Organizations -- Disputes over the definition of entrepreneurship -- $tNascent entrepreneurs and innovation -- The social network context -- Research illustration 4.1: The structure of founding teams -- Knowledge: types, origins, and uses -- Employees, capital, and other resources -- 5. Organizational Boundaries -- Boundary crossing is a way of life: matching organizations and members -- Two models of organizational coherence: users and supporters -- Constructing members -- Evolution of organizational role structures -- Organizational reward and control systems -- 6. Organizational Forms -- Views of organizational forms -- Research illustration 6.1: Routines as a foundation for organizational forms -- Organizational forms and the interdependence of members' schemata -- Construction's consequences: organizational culture -- 7. Organizational Transformation -- Explaining transformation at the organizational level -- Evolutionary explanations at the organizational level -- Examining the three dimensions of transformation -- The extent of member participation in transformation activities -- Consequences of transformation.
8. Organizations and Social Change -- The life cycle metaphor: developmental and stage models -- Non life cycle models: teleological and dialectical -- Three components of an historical framework -- Research illustration 8.1: Elite recruitment and social change in China -- 9. Emergence of New Populations of Organizations -- Definitions: populations, learning, and legitimacy -- Forms of learning and legitimacy -- Cognitive strategies -- Sociopolitical legitimacy strategies -- 10. Reproducing Populations: Foundings and Disbandings -- Definitions: rates of organizational foundings and disbandings -- Intra-population conditions -- Density dependence -- Facilitating effects of increasing density -- Inhibiting effects of increasing density -- Lagged effects -- Segregating processes -- Carrying capacity -- Research illustration 10.1: Population processes and legislative outcomes -- 11. Community Evolution -- Definitions: changing conception of community -- Relations between populations -- How do organizational communities form? -- Legitimacy and collective action -- Appendix. Research Design and Evolutionary Analysis -- Overview of research illustrations -- Strengths and weaknesses of non-experimental research designs.