The Organizational Dynamics of Creative Destruction: Entrepreneurship and the Creation of New Industries

by S. Mezias, E. Boyle

Overview

This book emphasises that entrepreneurship is a social activity that takes place within and among organizational systems rather than as an individual activity. A comprehensive view of entrepreneurship as an organizational phenomenon is provided and new theory building and empirical chapters are supplemented by previously published work updated to reflect current developments.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780333998625
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	09/27/2002
Edition description:	2002
Pages:	213
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.02(d)

About the Author

STEPHEN MEZIAS is a leading researcher in the field of organizational theory and an associate professor of management at New York University. He received his PhD in Organizational Behaviour from Stanford University.

ELIZABETH BOYLE is a doctoral candidate in management at New York University. Her work focuses on entrepreneurship as a systems level phenomenon and on competitive decision making.

Table of Contents

Introduction PART 1 ECOLOGIES OF LEARNING AND INTRAPRENEURSHIP The Three Faces of Corporate Renewal Mimetic Learning and the Evolution of Organizational Populations PART 2 THE EVOLUTIONARY DYNAMICS OF NEW INDUSTRY CREATION Resource Partitioning, the Founding of Specialist Firms and Innovation The Community Dynamics of Entrepreneurship: The Birth of the American Film Industry, 1895-1929 PART 3 THE ROLE OF INSTITUTIONS IN NEW INDUSTRY EMERGENCE Legal Environments and the Population Dynamics of Entrepreneurship Industry Creation, Legitimacy and Foundings Organizational Dynamics of Creative Destruction