Technological Innovation and Organizational Survival
A Population Ecology Study of Nineteenth-Century American Railroads
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2276219 |
|---|---|
| Authors | David Marple (Loyola Marymount University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1982 |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 107-116 |
| Publication date | 1982-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sociological Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0038-0253 • E-ISSN: 1533-8525 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1533-8525.1982.tb02223.x |
| OpenAlex | W2029596699 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 16 |
The population ecology model of formal organizations is used to study how adaptive maneuvers enable organizations to maintain themselves in a distribution of like organizations and, ultimately, to understand how the process of selection leads to survival and reproduction of certain types of organization and attrition of other types of organizations. Selection is readily affected by organization innovation, whether administrative or technological. This research dealt with how the steel rail may have affected the survival of 214 railroads in a fourteen-state area of the U.S. from 1860 to 1890.The findings indicate that two organizational characteristics, age of railroad and size of a rail operation, contributed more to rail survival than did technological innovation. Several methodological and theoretical issues are discussed which surround the choice of the population ocology model and the conduct of this research
Attrition · Biology · Economic geography · Economics · Geography · Management · Organizational ecology · Organizational structure · Population · Population decline · Process (computing) · Reproduction · Selection (genetic algorithm) · Social science · Sociology · State (computer science) · Survival of the fittest · Technological change · American History and Culture · Business Strategy and Innovation · Computer Science · Demography · Ecology · Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies · Historical Economic and Social Studies · Innovation and Knowledge Management
Environments and organizations
The spatial dynamics of U.S. urban-industrial growth, 1800-1914
Railroads and American economic growth
The Visible Hand
Handbook of Organizations (RLE
Social structure and organizations
Railroads and American Economic Growth
Factors affecting the diffusion of technology
The Presidential Address
Organizational Differentiation in Urban Communities
Environments of Organizations
The Population Ecology of Organizations
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,12 |
| Citation span | 1983 - 1996 (14) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |