Joel A C Baum
Biographic Data
| ID | 3610339 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joel A C Baum |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joel A C |
| FAMILY NAME | Baum |
| SIGNATURE | BAUM J A C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0707-7938 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 180 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 22 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The Blackwell Companion to Organizations
Intraorganizational evolution (iOE) is a relatively new, emergent area of research. Although evolutionary metaphors have often surfaced in organization theory, attempts to analyze the evolutionary dynamics unfolding within organizations have been quite sparse and systematic only in recent years. The basic concepts and tools of iOE are thus still in the process of being shaped. As a subject of analysis, iOE is the set of processes through which in…
Ecology
Epinets
Epinets
Free-Riding on Power Laws
The simplicity and apparent objectivity of the Institute for Scientific Information’s Impact Factor has resulted in its widespread use to assess the quality of organization studies journals and by extension the impact of the articles they publish and the achievements of their authors. After describing how such uses of the Impact Factor can distort both researcher and editorial behavior to the detriment of the field, I show how extreme variability…
The Globalization of Strategy Research
The field of strategic management emerged and developed in North America before migrating to other parts of the world. Until recently, the relationship between North American strategy research and research elsewhere was asymmetric: North America led, other research communities followed. More recently, however, the interaction between North American strategy researchers and those working in other regions has evolved into a conversation. Oftentimes…
Globalization of Strategy Research
The Wal-Mart Effect
During the past quarter century, large multistore retailers have experienced considerable growth. In this article, we examine the widely held belief that the expansion of these chain stores, Wal-Mart in particular, has had a large negative impact on the small locally owned retail sector. Our analysis of four types of independent retailer entries and exits in Florida from 1980, prior to the opening of the first Wal-Mart store in the state, to 2004…
The Blackwell Companion to Organizations
Economics Meets Sociology in Strategic Management
The last several years has witnessed a growing interaction between economists and sociologists engaged in the study of organizations' strategies. Economists and sociologists can gain real insight from these interactions. To date, however, these interactions have been to ad hoc and unfocused to bear any real fruit. This volume moves the discussion to the next level by focusing the discussion, and taking a step toward systematizing some of the rela…
Canadian Biotechnology Start-Ups, 1991-1997
Variations in Organization Science
Foreword - Barbara Frankel Campbell Donald T Campbell's Evolving Influence on Organization Science - Bill McKelvey and Joel A C Baum PART ONE: BLIND-VARIATION-SELECTION-AND-RETENTION The Accidental Entrepreneur - Howard E Aldrich and Amy L Kenworthy Campbellian Antinomies and Organizational Foundings Interorganizational Imitation - Anne S Miner and Sri V Raghavan A Hidden Engine of Selection Types of Variation in Organizational Populations - Haya…
The Rise of Chain Nursing Homes in Ontario, 1971-1996
Institutions and Organizations
Chain Affiliation and the Failure of Manhattan Hotels, 1898-1980
Dynamics of Organizational Responses to Competition
This research examines how processes of adaptation and selection operate jointly in the evolution of a population of day-care centers (DCCs) in metropolitan Toronto. We study how DCCs alter their organizational niches, defined by productive capacities and targeted resources, in response to competition and how these changes influence their survival chances. Exhibiting little structural inertia, DCCs modified their organizational niches in response…
Cultivating an Institutional Ecology of Organizations
Les AA. considerent que le concept de legitimation est une notion clef pour la sociologie. En revanche son caractere a la fois de processus et de resultat pose d'enormes problemes de mesure. Ils rejettent donc le modele de « densite-dependance ». Selon eux on ne peut se limiter a croire qu'une croissance des effectifs puisse par elle-meme etre le signe d'une legitimation d'une pratique, d'une strategie. Ils s'opposent donc a Hannan et alii en arg…
The Changing Basis of Competition in Organizational Populations
Density-dependence theory cannot account for the widely observed pattern of proliferation and concentration in organizational populations. Although density dependence provides an explanation for initial proliferation, it cannot explain subsequent concentration because it does not allow some organizations to become dominant competitors. To address this basic limitation, I combine density dependence with three ecological models that permit size-bas…
Dominant Designs and Population Dynamics in Telecommunications Services
In this study we examine how links between dominant designs and competitive processes influence patterns of founding and failure in telecommunications service industries characterized by positive network externalities. We study the effects of the dominant design established by the Consultative Committee on International Telephone and Telegraph (CCITT) for facsimile transmission technology on facsimile transmission service organizations (FTSOs) th…
Community Ecology and Employment
This article adopts a community ecology approach to study the employment dynamics of large Canadian organizations from 1985 to 1992. We construct a dynamic model of organization-level employment incorporating organizational characteristics, interactions with other organizations in a productive sector, relationships with other productive sectors in an economy, and aggregate economic indicators. Our results demonstrate the importance of interaction…
Why Organizations? How and Why People Organize
A New Paradigm for Organizational Studies
Community Ecology and Employment Dynamics
Competition, Institutional Linkages, and Organizational Growth
Institutional Embeddedness and the Dynamics of Organizational Populations
Institutional Embeddedness and the Dynamics of Organizational Populations
Cultivating an Institutional Ecology of Organizations
Les AA. considerent que le concept de legitimation est une notion clef pour la sociologie. En revanche son caractere a la fois de processus et de resultat pose d'enormes problemes de mesure. Ils rejettent donc le modele de « densite-dependance ». Selon eux on ne peut se limiter a croire qu'une croissance des effectifs puisse par elle-meme etre le signe d'une legitimation d'une pratique, d'une strategie. Ils s'opposent donc a Hannan et alii en arg…
Dynamics of Organizational Responses to Competition
This research examines how processes of adaptation and selection operate jointly in the evolution of a population of day-care centers (DCCs) in metropolitan Toronto. We study how DCCs alter their organizational niches, defined by productive capacities and targeted resources, in response to competition and how these changes influence their survival chances. Exhibiting little structural inertia, DCCs modified their organizational niches in response…
The Blackwell Companion to Organizations
Intraorganizational evolution (iOE) is a relatively new, emergent area of research. Although evolutionary metaphors have often surfaced in organization theory, attempts to analyze the evolutionary dynamics unfolding within organizations have been quite sparse and systematic only in recent years. The basic concepts and tools of iOE are thus still in the process of being shaped. As a subject of analysis, iOE is the set of processes through which in…
The Wal-Mart Effect
During the past quarter century, large multistore retailers have experienced considerable growth. In this article, we examine the widely held belief that the expansion of these chain stores, Wal-Mart in particular, has had a large negative impact on the small locally owned retail sector. Our analysis of four types of independent retailer entries and exits in Florida from 1980, prior to the opening of the first Wal-Mart store in the state, to 2004…
Dominant Designs and Population Dynamics in Telecommunications Services
In this study we examine how links between dominant designs and competitive processes influence patterns of founding and failure in telecommunications service industries characterized by positive network externalities. We study the effects of the dominant design established by the Consultative Committee on International Telephone and Telegraph (CCITT) for facsimile transmission technology on facsimile transmission service organizations (FTSOs) th…
Competition, Institutional Linkages, and Organizational Growth
Canadian Biotechnology Start-Ups, 1991-1997
Institutions and Organizations
The Changing Basis of Competition in Organizational Populations
Density-dependence theory cannot account for the widely observed pattern of proliferation and concentration in organizational populations. Although density dependence provides an explanation for initial proliferation, it cannot explain subsequent concentration because it does not allow some organizations to become dominant competitors. To address this basic limitation, I combine density dependence with three ecological models that permit size-bas…
Community Ecology and Employment Dynamics
Institutional Embeddedness and the Dynamics of Organizational Populations
Competition, Institutional Linkages, and Organizational Growth
Community Ecology and Employment
This article adopts a community ecology approach to study the employment dynamics of large Canadian organizations from 1985 to 1992. We construct a dynamic model of organization-level employment incorporating organizational characteristics, interactions with other organizations in a productive sector, relationships with other productive sectors in an economy, and aggregate economic indicators. Our results demonstrate the importance of interaction…
Why Organizations? How and Why People Organize
A New Paradigm for Organizational Studies
Community Ecology and Employment Dynamics
Cultivating an Institutional Ecology of Organizations
Les AA. considerent que le concept de legitimation est une notion clef pour la sociologie. En revanche son caractere a la fois de processus et de resultat pose d'enormes problemes de mesure. Ils rejettent donc le modele de « densite-dependance ». Selon eux on ne peut se limiter a croire qu'une croissance des effectifs puisse par elle-meme etre le signe d'une legitimation d'une pratique, d'une strategie. Ils s'opposent donc a Hannan et alii en arg…
The Changing Basis of Competition in Organizational Populations
Density-dependence theory cannot account for the widely observed pattern of proliferation and concentration in organizational populations. Although density dependence provides an explanation for initial proliferation, it cannot explain subsequent concentration because it does not allow some organizations to become dominant competitors. To address this basic limitation, I combine density dependence with three ecological models that permit size-bas…
Dominant Designs and Population Dynamics in Telecommunications Services
In this study we examine how links between dominant designs and competitive processes influence patterns of founding and failure in telecommunications service industries characterized by positive network externalities. We study the effects of the dominant design established by the Consultative Committee on International Telephone and Telegraph (CCITT) for facsimile transmission technology on facsimile transmission service organizations (FTSOs) th…
Dynamics of Organizational Responses to Competition
This research examines how processes of adaptation and selection operate jointly in the evolution of a population of day-care centers (DCCs) in metropolitan Toronto. We study how DCCs alter their organizational niches, defined by productive capacities and targeted resources, in response to competition and how these changes influence their survival chances. Exhibiting little structural inertia, DCCs modified their organizational niches in response…
Chain Affiliation and the Failure of Manhattan Hotels, 1898-1980
Institutions and Organizations
Variations in Organization Science
Foreword - Barbara Frankel Campbell Donald T Campbell's Evolving Influence on Organization Science - Bill McKelvey and Joel A C Baum PART ONE: BLIND-VARIATION-SELECTION-AND-RETENTION The Accidental Entrepreneur - Howard E Aldrich and Amy L Kenworthy Campbellian Antinomies and Organizational Foundings Interorganizational Imitation - Anne S Miner and Sri V Raghavan A Hidden Engine of Selection Types of Variation in Organizational Populations - Haya…
The Rise of Chain Nursing Homes in Ontario, 1971-1996
Economics Meets Sociology in Strategic Management
The last several years has witnessed a growing interaction between economists and sociologists engaged in the study of organizations' strategies. Economists and sociologists can gain real insight from these interactions. To date, however, these interactions have been to ad hoc and unfocused to bear any real fruit. This volume moves the discussion to the next level by focusing the discussion, and taking a step toward systematizing some of the rela…
Canadian Biotechnology Start-Ups, 1991-1997
The Blackwell Companion to Organizations
The Wal-Mart Effect
During the past quarter century, large multistore retailers have experienced considerable growth. In this article, we examine the widely held belief that the expansion of these chain stores, Wal-Mart in particular, has had a large negative impact on the small locally owned retail sector. Our analysis of four types of independent retailer entries and exits in Florida from 1980, prior to the opening of the first Wal-Mart store in the state, to 2004…
The Globalization of Strategy Research
The field of strategic management emerged and developed in North America before migrating to other parts of the world. Until recently, the relationship between North American strategy research and research elsewhere was asymmetric: North America led, other research communities followed. More recently, however, the interaction between North American strategy researchers and those working in other regions has evolved into a conversation. Oftentimes…
Globalization of Strategy Research
Free-Riding on Power Laws
The simplicity and apparent objectivity of the Institute for Scientific Information’s Impact Factor has resulted in its widespread use to assess the quality of organization studies journals and by extension the impact of the articles they publish and the achievements of their authors. After describing how such uses of the Impact Factor can distort both researcher and editorial behavior to the detriment of the field, I show how extreme variability…
Epinets
Epinets
Ecology
The Blackwell Companion to Organizations
Intraorganizational evolution (iOE) is a relatively new, emergent area of research. Although evolutionary metaphors have often surfaced in organization theory, attempts to analyze the evolutionary dynamics unfolding within organizations have been quite sparse and systematic only in recent years. The basic concepts and tools of iOE are thus still in the process of being shaped. As a subject of analysis, iOE is the set of processes through which in…
Sociology (12 works) · Economics (11 works) · Business (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · Biology (8 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · Ecology (8 works) · Ecology (7 works) · Management (6 works) · Management and Organizational Studies (6 works)