Cultural Group Selection in Organization Studies
@article{Baum2007CulturalGS,
title={Cultural Group Selection in Organization Studies},
author={Joel A. C. Baum},
journal={Organization Studies},
year={2007},
volume={28},
pages={37 - 47},
url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:143456734}
}Professor March proposes that ‘the observed distribution of scholarly commitments [within organization studies] over time and over geographic and linguistic regions is generated by the interaction of invasion, reproduction, migration and transformation [of ideas, frameworks and worldviews]’ (March 2007: 00). Within this broad evolutionary framework, he emphasizes the ways in which the history of our field has been embedded in the events and circumstances of its times and in which those times…
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