Howard E Aldrich
Biographic Data
| ID | 249792 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Howard E Aldrich |
| GIVEN NAMES | Howard E |
| FAMILY NAME | Aldrich |
| SIGNATURE | ALDRICH H E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2669-5536 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 51 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 884 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 51 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 13 |
Forty Years of Reflection, Sixty Years of Solitude: Promising Early Pedagogical Initiatives in Social Forces that were Unsustainable
In its first several decades, Social Forces published several amazingly prescient articles about teaching that might have formed the basis for a sociological pedagogy for the twentieth century.These articles anticipated a focus on learning rather than teaching, active student engagement with the material rather than lecturing, and a recognition of the key role that student emotions played in learning.However, over the next century, concerns for s…
The liability of newness' revisited: Theoretical restatement and empirical testing in emergent organizations
Evolutionary Theory
This article explores how biological theories of evolution have been applied to the area of organizations. We review the processes of selection, adaptation, learning, retention, co‐evolution, and strategic intent and how they fit together to determine both organizational success and change at the level of populations and communities.
Who's the Boss? Explaining Gender Inequality in Entrepreneurial Teams
Sociologists have examined gender inequalities across a wide array of social contexts. Yet, questions remain regarding how inequalities arise among autonomous groups pursuing economic goals. In this article, we investigate mixed-sex entrepreneurial teams to unpack the mechanisms by which gender inequality in leadership emerges, despite strong pressures toward merit-based organizing principles. We theorize the potentially competing relationships b…
Can You Lend Me a Hand? Task-Role Alignment of Social Support for Aspiring Business Owners
Previous research has emphasized the positive impact of supportive informal relations on workers in various occupational settings. Such support seems particularly important for workers who aspire to be self-employed, running their own businesses. Existing theory, however, offers little guidance regarding the mechanisms through which these supportive relationships operate. We argue that social support and role expectation theories address this con…
Ethnic Entrepreneurs (translation by M. Dobryakova)
During recent years there has been a surge of studies of entrepreneurs from different ethnic minorities. Ethnic minoritieshave different resources and face different opportunities than mainstream entrepreneurs
Organizations Evolving
Organizations Evolving offers a unique theoretical framework for understanding organizational emergence, persistence, change and decline. This updated and revised third edition presents an evolutionary view that provides a unified understanding of modern organizations and organization theory
Mixing or Matching? The Influence of Voluntary Associations on the Occupational Diversity and Density of Small Business Owners' Networks
Most employeeswork in large organizations, enjoying the potential benefits of forming career-enhancing intraorganizational networks. By contrast, small business owners must look to external contexts such as voluntary associations for their business-enhancing ties. This research discusses ways through which involvement in voluntary associations can enhance or diminish occupational diversity and density for owners' networks. Whether owners met thei…
Who Can You Turn To? Tie Activation within Core Business Discussion Networks
We examine the connection between personal network characteristics and the activation of ties for access to resources during routine times. We focus on factors affecting business owners' use of their core network ties to obtain legal, loan, financial and expert advice. Owners rely more on core business ties when their core networks contain a high proportion of men, are very dense, and have high occupational heterogeneity. We conclude with suggest…
Interview
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The pervasive effects of family on entrepreneurship: Toward a family embeddedness perspective
The Rationalization of Everything? Using Ritzer's McDonaldization Thesis to Teach Weber
Today's students have grown up in a world structured by forces of rationalization, making it difficult for them to comprehend scope and magnitude of transformations Weber described. In this paper, we outline a plan for helping students appreciate Weber's theoretical achievements, as well as teaching them to think more critically about what constitutes the good in rationalized societies. We use Ritzer's best-selling book The McDonaldization of Soc…
It's up in the Air, or Is It
In his observations about the sociological imagination, C. Wright Mills argues that people have difficulty seeing connections between individual outcomes and social structures. Inspired by Mills's observations, we developed a classroom exercise for stratification and organization courses that demonstrates how social structures can constrain individual actions and still produce outcomes that students often attribute to individual effort. Using the…
The Structure of Founding Teams: Homophily, Strong Ties, and Isolation among U.S. Entrepreneurs
The mechanisms governing the composition of formal social groups (e.g., task groups, organizational founding teams) remain poorly understood, owing to (1) a lack of representative sampling from groups found in the general population, (2) a “success” bias among researchers that leads them to consider only those groups that actually emerge and survive, and (3) a restrictive focus on some theorized mechanisms of group composition (e.g., homophily) t…
Planning and Running Effective Classroom-Based Exercises
We thank Linda Renzulli and three anonymous reviewers for their helpful comments on previous drafts. 2 Planning and Running Effective Classroom-Based Exercises Classroom-based exercises, when used regularly and appropriately, foster many valuable skills. Building on advice scattered across various articles, as well as our own classroom experiences, we offer some general guidelines for planning and running classroom exercises. We focus on planning…
Family Matters: Gender, Networks, and Entrepreneurial Outcomes
Journal Article Family Matters: Gender, Networks, and Entrepreneurial Outcomes Get access Linda A. Renzulli, Linda A. Renzulli University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Direct correspondence to Linda A. Renzulli, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Department of Sociology, CB #3210 Hamilton Hall, Chapel Hill, NC 27599. Telephone: 919-962-5044. E-mail: [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Goo…
The Entrepreneurial Process: Economic Growth, Men, Women, and Minorities. Edited by Paul D. Reynolds and Sammis B. White. Westport, Connecticut: Quorum Book, 1997
Cross-National Similarities in the Personal Networks of Small Business Owners: A Comparison of Two Regions in North America
A l'exemple de Granovetter (1985), les AA. proposent un modele d'encastrement social ( « social embeddedness » ) des relations d'affaires pour expliquer la facon dont les reseaux personnels des proprietaires d'entreprises sont constitues. Sur la base de donnees de sondage de 261 proprietaires d'entreprises du Canada Atlantique et de l'aire du Research Triangle en Caroline du Nord, ils examinent deux questions : quelles sont les caracteristiques d…
Fools Rush in? The Institutional Context of Industry Creation
Other People's Concepts: Why and How We Sustain Historical Continuity in Our Field
Personal and extended networks are central to the entrepreneurial process
Ethnic Entrepreneurs: Immigrant Business in Industrial Societies
Ethnic Entrepreneurs: Immigrant Business in Industrial Societies
Ethnicity and Entrepreneurship
We examine various approaches to explaining ethnic enterprise, using a framework based on three dimensions: an ethnic group's access to opportunities, the characteristics of a group, and emergent strategies. A common theme pervades research on ethnic business: Ethnic groups adapt to the resources made available by their environments, which vary substantially across societies and over time. Four issues emerge as requiring greater attention: the re…
How to Grade Handbook Articles
Environments of Organizations
The term intersectionality references the critical insight that race, class, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, nation, ability, and age operate not as unitary, mutually exclusive entities, but rather as reciprocally constructing phenomena. Despite this ...Read More
Organizations Evolving
Organizations Evolving offers a unique theoretical framework for understanding organizational emergence, persistence, change and decline. This updated and revised third edition presents an evolutionary view that provides a unified understanding of modern organizations and organization theory
The Structure of Founding Teams: Homophily, Strong Ties, and Isolation among U.S. Entrepreneurs
The mechanisms governing the composition of formal social groups (e.g., task groups, organizational founding teams) remain poorly understood, owing to (1) a lack of representative sampling from groups found in the general population, (2) a “success” bias among researchers that leads them to consider only those groups that actually emerge and survive, and (3) a restrictive focus on some theorized mechanisms of group composition (e.g., homophily) t…
Resource Dependence and in Terorganiza Tional Relations: Local Employment Service Offices and Social Services Sector Organizations
A resource dependence model is proposed as a conceptual scheme to account for organizational behavior observed under conditions where interorganizational relations are a critical environmental contingency. The model is used to explain the pattern of transactions between 19 local Employment Service offices and 249 social service organizations in New York State. Four aspects of interorganization transaction are taken as problematic: intensity, reci…
Who's the Boss? Explaining Gender Inequality in Entrepreneurial Teams
Sociologists have examined gender inequalities across a wide array of social contexts. Yet, questions remain regarding how inequalities arise among autonomous groups pursuing economic goals. In this article, we investigate mixed-sex entrepreneurial teams to unpack the mechanisms by which gender inequality in leadership emerges, despite strong pressures toward merit-based organizing principles. We theorize the potentially competing relationships b…
Family Matters: Gender, Networks, and Entrepreneurial Outcomes
Journal Article Family Matters: Gender, Networks, and Entrepreneurial Outcomes Get access Linda A. Renzulli, Linda A. Renzulli University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Direct correspondence to Linda A. Renzulli, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Department of Sociology, CB #3210 Hamilton Hall, Chapel Hill, NC 27599. Telephone: 919-962-5044. E-mail: [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Goo…
Resource Mobilization through Ethnic Networks: Kinship and Friendship Ties of Shopkeepers in England
Shopkeepers have social networks composed of ties to many others: Family, friends, customers, suppliers, employees, and moneylenders. We examine how ties to family and friends affect three aspects of entrepreneurship for Asian and white shop owners in four English cities: Business foundings, business success, and business turnover. Social ties are important for all three processes in both groups. An implication of our research is that the compara…
Organizational Boundaries and Inter-organizational Conflict
Continuities in the Study of Ecological Succession: Changes in the Race Composition of Neighborhoods and Their Businesses
This paper concerns the problem of how residential succession affects the character of one set of local organizations: small businesses in racially changing neighborhoods. A key issue examined is the extent to which the causes and consequences of residential succession account also for the succession of small-busines organizations. Only one type of succession is examined in this paper: the movement of blacks into areas previously occupied by whit…
Patterns of Vandalism during Civil Disorders as an Indicator of Selection of Targets
Using data from two independent surveys, this paper examines those ghetto retail merchants who are likely to have their business establishments attacked during civil disorders. The findings, unusual in their complementarity, suggest that riot participants select many of their targets and that the pattern of selection reflects a variety of concerns, from personal gain to pre-political motivations. Interpretations of these findings undercut theorie…
The Supranational Organization of Production: An Evolutionary Perspective [and Comments and Reply]
Fresh theoretical perspectives are required for understanding the rapid expansion of international economic activity and especially the organization of production on a world scale through institutions of multinational enterprise. Ananthropological evolutionary approach which sees these developments as part of the generation of a new system at a supranational level of sociocultural integration seems appropiate to the task. The creation of such a n…
Ethnic Residential Concentration and the Protected Market Hypothesis
The concept of a protected consumer market has been used to refer to the special, culturally based tastes of ethnic minorities that can only be served by co-ethnic businesses. We argue that residentially segregated ethnic enclaves are another form of protected market which arises under historically determined conjunctures of immigration patterns and urban economic development. Using 571 survey interviews with Asian and white shopkeepers and popul…
Ethnic Business and Occupational Mobility in Advanced Societies
Who Can You Turn To? Tie Activation within Core Business Discussion Networks
We examine the connection between personal network characteristics and the activation of ties for access to resources during routine times. We focus on factors affecting business owners' use of their core network ties to obtain legal, loan, financial and expert advice. Owners rely more on core business ties when their core networks contain a high proportion of men, are very dense, and have high occupational heterogeneity. We conclude with suggest…
Ethnic Entrepreneurs: Immigrant Business in Industrial Societies
Differentiation within the United States Capitalist Class: Workforce Size and Income Differences
A particularly important but neglected source of differentiation in the capitalist class in the United States is the amount of economic resources capitalists control, especially the number of workers they employ. Workforce size is a major dimension of stratification within the U.S. business population and in the capitalist class. Analysis of income determination among 468 small business owners demonstrates the usefulness of a continuous rather th…
Employment Opportunities for Blacks in the Black Ghetto: The Role of White-Owned Businesses
Black-white relations in economic institutions are important determinants of the life chances of blacks. Black leaders and civil rights groups argue that white ownership of businesses in black communities retards the economic and political achievement of blacks. This paper explores the empirical basis fur such arguments using a panel study of small businesses in Boston, Chicago, and Washington, D. C. The following propositions are supported: (1) …
Mixing or Matching? The Influence of Voluntary Associations on the Occupational Diversity and Density of Small Business Owners' Networks
Most employeeswork in large organizations, enjoying the potential benefits of forming career-enhancing intraorganizational networks. By contrast, small business owners must look to external contexts such as voluntary associations for their business-enhancing ties. This research discusses ways through which involvement in voluntary associations can enhance or diminish occupational diversity and density for owners' networks. Whether owners met thei…
The Rationalization of Everything? Using Ritzer's McDonaldization Thesis to Teach Weber
Today's students have grown up in a world structured by forces of rationalization, making it difficult for them to comprehend scope and magnitude of transformations Weber described. In this paper, we outline a plan for helping students appreciate Weber's theoretical achievements, as well as teaching them to think more critically about what constitutes the good in rationalized societies. We use Ritzer's best-selling book The McDonaldization of Soc…
Absentee Ownership and Management in the Black Ghetto: Social and Economic Consequences
Journal Article Absentee Ownership and Management in the Black Ghetto: Social and Economic Consequences Get access Albert J. Reiss, Jr., Albert J. Reiss, Jr. Yale University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Howard Aldrich Howard Aldrich Cornell University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Problems, Volume 18, Issue 3, Winter 1971, Pages 319–339, ht…
Organization Setsize and Diversity: People-Processing Organizations and Their Environments
This study investigates the interorganizational linkages ofpeople-processrng organiza tions. Specifically, the determinants of the size and diversity of their organization sets are examined. Predictors are grouped according to the amount of discretion local agency directors have to manipulate them. It is shown that the best predictors of organization set size and composition are variables over which local adminrstrators have little control. The i…
The Effect of Civil Disorders on Small Business in the Inner City 1
The liability of newness' revisited: Theoretical restatement and empirical testing in emergent organizations
It's up in the Air, or Is It
In his observations about the sociological imagination, C. Wright Mills argues that people have difficulty seeing connections between individual outcomes and social structures. Inspired by Mills's observations, we developed a classroom exercise for stratification and organization courses that demonstrates how social structures can constrain individual actions and still produce outcomes that students often attribute to individual effort. Using the…
Planning and Running Effective Classroom-Based Exercises
We thank Linda Renzulli and three anonymous reviewers for their helpful comments on previous drafts. 2 Planning and Running Effective Classroom-Based Exercises Classroom-based exercises, when used regularly and appropriately, foster many valuable skills. Building on advice scattered across various articles, as well as our own classroom experiences, we offer some general guidelines for planning and running classroom exercises. We focus on planning…
The Effect of Civil Disorders on Small Business in the Inner City 1
Organizational Boundaries and Inter-organizational Conflict
Absentee Ownership and Management in the Black Ghetto: Social and Economic Consequences
Journal Article Absentee Ownership and Management in the Black Ghetto: Social and Economic Consequences Get access Albert J. Reiss, Jr., Albert J. Reiss, Jr. Yale University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Howard Aldrich Howard Aldrich Cornell University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Problems, Volume 18, Issue 3, Winter 1971, Pages 319–339, ht…
Patterns of Vandalism during Civil Disorders as an Indicator of Selection of Targets
Using data from two independent surveys, this paper examines those ghetto retail merchants who are likely to have their business establishments attacked during civil disorders. The findings, unusual in their complementarity, suggest that riot participants select many of their targets and that the pattern of selection reflects a variety of concerns, from personal gain to pre-political motivations. Interpretations of these findings undercut theorie…
Sociability in Mensa: Characteristics of Interaction Among Strangers
Employment Opportunities for Blacks in the Black Ghetto: The Role of White-Owned Businesses
Black-white relations in economic institutions are important determinants of the life chances of blacks. Black leaders and civil rights groups argue that white ownership of businesses in black communities retards the economic and political achievement of blacks. This paper explores the empirical basis fur such arguments using a panel study of small businesses in Boston, Chicago, and Washington, D. C. The following propositions are supported: (1) …
An End to Hierarchy! An End to Competition! Organizing the Politics and Economics of Survival. Frederick C. Thayer
Ecological Succession in Racially Changing Neighborhoods
Resource Dependence and in Terorganiza Tional Relations: Local Employment Service Offices and Social Services Sector Organizations
A resource dependence model is proposed as a conceptual scheme to account for organizational behavior observed under conditions where interorganizational relations are a critical environmental contingency. The model is used to explain the pattern of transactions between 19 local Employment Service offices and 249 social service organizations in New York State. Four aspects of interorganization transaction are taken as problematic: intensity, reci…
Environments of Organizations
The term intersectionality references the critical insight that race, class, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, nation, ability, and age operate not as unitary, mutually exclusive entities, but rather as reciprocally constructing phenomena. Despite this ...Read More
Continuities in the Study of Ecological Succession: Changes in the Race Composition of Neighborhoods and Their Businesses
This paper concerns the problem of how residential succession affects the character of one set of local organizations: small businesses in racially changing neighborhoods. A key issue examined is the extent to which the causes and consequences of residential succession account also for the succession of small-busines organizations. Only one type of succession is examined in this paper: the movement of blacks into areas previously occupied by whit…
The Supranational Organization of Production: An Evolutionary Perspective [and Comments and Reply]
Fresh theoretical perspectives are required for understanding the rapid expansion of international economic activity and especially the organization of production on a world scale through institutions of multinational enterprise. Ananthropological evolutionary approach which sees these developments as part of the generation of a new system at a supranational level of sociocultural integration seems appropiate to the task. The creation of such a n…
Organization Setsize and Diversity: People-Processing Organizations and Their Environments
This study investigates the interorganizational linkages ofpeople-processrng organiza tions. Specifically, the determinants of the size and diversity of their organization sets are examined. Predictors are grouped according to the amount of discretion local agency directors have to manipulate them. It is shown that the best predictors of organization set size and composition are variables over which local adminrstrators have little control. The i…
Organizations and Environments
Enacting the Environment: Organization Persistence and Change
Differentiation within the United States Capitalist Class: Workforce Size and Income Differences
A particularly important but neglected source of differentiation in the capitalist class in the United States is the amount of economic resources capitalists control, especially the number of workers they employ. Workforce size is a major dimension of stratification within the U.S. business population and in the capitalist class. Analysis of income determination among 468 small business owners demonstrates the usefulness of a continuous rather th…
Organizations and Environments
Ethnic Residential Concentration and the Protected Market Hypothesis
The concept of a protected consumer market has been used to refer to the special, culturally based tastes of ethnic minorities that can only be served by co-ethnic businesses. We argue that residentially segregated ethnic enclaves are another form of protected market which arises under historically determined conjunctures of immigration patterns and urban economic development. Using 571 survey interviews with Asian and white shopkeepers and popul…
Ethnic Business and Occupational Mobility in Advanced Societies
Asian residential concentration and business development: An analysis of shopkeepers’ customers in three cities
Small Business Still Speaks with the Same Voice: A Replication of 'The Voice of Small Business and the Politics of Survival
We replicated Bechhofer and Elliott's (1978) study of Edinburgh shopkeepers to answer two important questions. First, have political attitudes and behaviour changed since 1969-1970 when Bechhofer and Elliott collected their data? Second, are the Bechhofer and Elliott findings applicable only to the one city where their study was conducted? We collected our data in 1978 from the cities of Bradford and Leicester and the borough of Ealing, in grater…
A Population Ecology Perspective on Underemployment in Alternative Organizations
Labor market studies which focus on dichotomous categories such as employed and unemployed miss a variety of marginal employment situations. This article addre‐sses the recent proliferation of jobs created by democratically controlled alternative organizations. We argue, from a population ecology perspective, that the economic potential of small alternative organizations is limited. Although current environmental con‐ditions favor small specialis…
Resource Mobilization through Ethnic Networks: Kinship and Friendship Ties of Shopkeepers in England
Shopkeepers have social networks composed of ties to many others: Family, friends, customers, suppliers, employees, and moneylenders. We examine how ties to family and friends affect three aspects of entrepreneurship for Asian and white shop owners in four English cities: Business foundings, business success, and business turnover. Social ties are important for all three processes in both groups. An implication of our research is that the compara…
Population Perspectives on Organizations
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