emerald PUBLISHING Evolutionary Selection Processes: Towards Intra-Organizational Facets (Emerald Points)

Is the natural evolution logic adaptable to business settings? It has been attracting the attention of strategic management researchers for years. It is by linking the evolutionary approach, the process perspective, and the practice perspective that an adequate answer can be posed. Evolutionary Selection Processes: Towards Intra-Organizational Facets contributes to the existing research on routines and selection processes, but also goes beyond the classical selection discussion concerning the role routines play in stability or change. By examining the behavioral, cultural, and social determinants of selecting organizational routines, introducing the concept of primary selection, and considering the disputable issue of managerial intervention in organizational adaptive change, the book provides a multilevel and complex conceptual framework within which to examine the strategic adaptation mode. The book will appeal to researchers in strategic management, multilevel strategic adaptation, and organizational change, as well as organizational behavior. Review This book applies an evolutionary perspective to organizing and focuses on theorizing the strategy process and practices and the dynamics of organizational evolution. It concentrates on the selection aspect of the classic evolutionary mechanism and proposes that selection is explained by interaction with the external environment and internal factors. It details a multilevel selection mechanism that integrates both factors and describes the dynamics of organizational evolution, as well as a managerial intervention and its effects on the adaptation mode and explanations of inter-organizational level selection. It discusses evolutionary approaches in organization and management theory, organizational routines, selection processes in organizations, integrating selection and strategic fit, and intra-organizational mechanisms of selection. -- Annotation ©2019 ― (protoview.com) About the Author Ewa Stanczyk-Hugiet is the Dean of the Faculty of Management, Computer Science, and Finance, and the Chair and full Professor in the Department of Strategy and Management Methods at the Wroclaw University of Economics. Katarzyna Piorkowska, PhD, is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Management, Computer Science and Finance, the Department of Strategy and Management Methods at the Wroclaw University of Economics in Poland. Sylwia Stanczyk, PhD, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Strategy and Management Methods at the Wroclaw University of Economics. Janusz Struzyna is a full Professor in the Department of Organizational Relationships Management at the University of Economics in Katowice.