Culture and Demography in Organization: Faculty Books: Jackson Library: Stanford GSB

Glenn R. Carroll

[photo - Glenn Carroll] Laurence W. Lane Professor of Organizations

Professor of Sociology (by courtesy), School of Humanities and Sciences

Professor Carroll's research interests include organizational theory, strategic management, and industrial evolution. He has pioneered ecological approaches to organizational analysis, as well as their application to strategy. Carroll helped develop the study of population dynamics among organizations, examining how the demographics of firms affect corporate change. His recent research investigates how organizational identities develop and impact society. Another program examines how the diversity of organizations in a community affects socio-political outcomes. Carroll has also studied the ways internal organizational demography shapes organizational cultures. more ...

Faculty Books: Culture and Demography in Organization

Culture and Demography in Organization

by J. Richard Harrison and Glenn R. Carroll
Princeton University Press, 2006

How do corporations and other organizations maintain and transmit their cultures over time? Culture and Demography in Organizations offers the most reliable and comprehensive answer to this complex question to date. The first book on the subject to ground its analysis in mathematical tools and computer simulation, it goes beyond standard approaches, which focus on socialization within organizations, by explicitly considering the effects of demographic processes of entry, exit, and organizational growth. The authors model with three components: hiring, socialization, and employee turnover. Topics covered include organizational growth and decline, top management teams, organizational influence networks, terrorist organizations, cultural integration following mergers, and organizational failure. The book serves as an introduction to the increasingly popular use of computer simulation.