<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title>UTas ePrints - Using Old Concepts to Gain New Insights: Addressing the Issue of Consistency</title>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/javascript/auto.js"><!-- padder --></script>
<style type="text/css" media="screen">@import url(http://eprints.utas.edu.au/style/auto.css);</style>
<style type="text/css" media="print">@import url(http://eprints.utas.edu.au/style/print.css);</style>
<link rel="icon" href="/images/eprints/favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon" />
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="/images/eprints/favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon" />
<link rel="Top" href="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/" />
<link rel="Search" href="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/cgi/search" />
<meta content="Jones, Colin D." name="eprints.creators_name" />
<meta content="Colin.Jones@utas.edu" name="eprints.creators_id" />
<meta content="article" name="eprints.type" />
<meta content="2007-03-21" name="eprints.datestamp" />
<meta content="2008-01-08 15:30:00" name="eprints.lastmod" />
<meta content="show" name="eprints.metadata_visibility" />
<meta content="Using Old Concepts to Gain New Insights: Addressing the Issue of Consistency" name="eprints.title" />
<meta content="pub" name="eprints.ispublished" />
<meta content="349999" name="eprints.subjects" />
<meta content="350209" name="eprints.subjects" />
<meta content="350299" name="eprints.subjects" />
<meta content="restricted" name="eprints.full_text_status" />
<meta content="Selection, Adaptation, Selective Environmental Neighbourhoods and the Principle of Consistency" name="eprints.keywords" />
<meta content="Copyright 2007 Emerald Group. Reproduced in accordance with the publishers policy. The definitive published version is available online at:http://www.emeraldinsight.com/info/journals/md/md.jsp
" name="eprints.note" />
<meta content="Purpose of the paper: This paper aims to go beyond a bookkeeping approach to evolutionary analysis whereby surviving firms are better adapted and extinct firms were less adapted. From discussion of the preliminary findings of research into the Hobart pizza industry, evidence is presented of the need to adopt a more traditional approach to applying evolutionary theories with organizational research.
Methodology/Approach: After a brief review of the relevant literature, the preliminary findings of research into the Hobart pizza industry are presented. Then, several evolutionary concepts that are common place in ecological research are introduced to help explain the emergent findings. The paper concludes with consideration given too advancing a more consistent approach to employing evolutionary theories within organizational research.
Findings: The process of selection can not be assumed to occur evenly across time and/or space. Within geographically small markets different forms of selection operate in different ways and degrees requiring the use of more traditional evolutionary theories to highlight the causal process associated with population change.
Research Implications: The paper concludes by highlighting Geoffery Hodgson's Principle of Consistency. It is demonstrated that a failure to truly understand how and why theory is used in one domain will likely result in its misuse in another domain. That at present, too few evolutionary concepts are employed in organisational research too ensure an appreciation of any underlying causal processes through which social change occurs.
What is the original/value of paper: The concepts introduced throughout this paper, whilst not new, provide new entry points for organizational researchers intent of employing an evolutionary approach to understand the process of social change.
" name="eprints.abstract" />
<meta content="2007" name="eprints.date" />
<meta content="published" name="eprints.date_type" />
<meta content="Management Decision" name="eprints.publication" />
<meta content="45" name="eprints.volume" />
<meta content="1" name="eprints.number" />
<meta content="29-42" name="eprints.pagerange" />
<meta content="10.1108/00251740710718944" name="eprints.id_number" />
<meta content="UNSPECIFIED" name="eprints.thesis_type" />
<meta content="TRUE" name="eprints.refereed" />
<meta content="0025-1747" name="eprints.issn" />
<meta content="http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/00251740710718944" name="eprints.official_url" />
<meta content="Aldrich, H.E. (1999), Organizations Evolving, Sage Publications, London.
Amburgey, T.L., Kelly, D. and Barnett, W.P. (1993), "Resetting the clock: The dynamics of organizational change", Administrative Science Quarterly, Vol. 38 No. 1, pp. 51-73.
Amburgey, T.L., Dacin, T. and Kelly, D. (1994), "Disruptive selection and population segmentation: Interpopulation competition as a segregating process", in Baum, J.A.C. and Singh, J.V. (Eds.), Evolutionary Dynamics of Organizations, Oxford University Press, New York, pp. 240-254.
Amburgey, T.L., and Singh, J.V. (2002), "Organizational evolution", in Baum, J.A.C. (Ed.), Companion to Organizations, Blackwell, Oxford, UK, pp. 327-343.
Brandon, R.N. (1990), Adaptation and Environment, Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ.
Bruderer, E. and Singh, J.T. (1996), "Organizational evolution, learning, and selection: A genetic-algorithm-based model", Academy of Management Journal, Vol. 39 No. 5, pp 1322-1349.
Darwin, C. (1901), The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, J. Murray, London.
Evans, M.G., and Usher, J.M. (1996), "Life and death along gasoline alley: Darwinian and Lamarckian processes in a differentiating population," Academy of Management Journal, Vol. 39 No. 5, pp. 1428-1466.
Grant, V. (1985), The Evolutionary Process: A Critical Review of Evolutionary Theory, Columbia University Press, New York.
Hannan, M.T. and Freeman, J. (1989), Organizational Ecology, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA.
Haveman, H.A. (1992), "Between a rock and a hard place: Organizational change and performance under conditions of fundamental environmental transformation", Administrative Science Quarterly, Vol. 37 No. 1, pp. 48-75.
Hodgson, G. M. (1993), Economics and Evolution: Bringing Life Back into Economics, Polity Press, Cambridge, UK.
Hodgson, G.M. (2001), "Is social evolution Lamarckian or Darwinian", in Nightingale, J. and Laurent, J. (Eds.), Darwinism and Evolutionary Economics, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, pp. 87-118.
Hodgson, G.M. (2003), "Darwinism and institutional economics", Journal of Economic Issues, Vol 37. No. 1, pp. 85-97.
Hoffmeister, T.S., Vet, L.E.M., Biere, A., Holsinger, K. and Filser, J. (2005) "Ecological and evolutionary consequences of biological invasion and habitat fragmentation", Ecosystems, Vol. 8, pp. 657-667.
Hull, D.L., Langman, R.E. and Glenn, S.S. (2001), "A general account of selection", in Hull, D.L. (Ed.) Science and Selection, Cambridge University Press, New York, pp. 49-96.
Hull, D.L. (2001), Science and Selection, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, MA.
Jones, C. (2005), "Firm transformation: Advancing a Darwinian perspective", Management Decision, Vol. 43 No 1, pp. 13-25.
Levinthal, D.A. (1991), "Organizational adaptation and environmental selection: Interrelated processes of change", Organization Science, Vol. 2 No 1, pp. 140-145.
Levitt, B. and March, J.G. (1988), "Organizational learning", in Scott, W.R. and Blake, J. (Eds), Annual Review of Sociology, Vol 14, Annual Reviews, Palo Alto, CA, pp. 319-340.
Mayr, E. (1997), This is Biology: The Living Science of the Living World, Belknap Press, Cambridge, MA.
Nelson, R.R. and Winter, S.G. (1982), An Evolutionary Theory of Economic Change, Harvard University Press, Cambridge.
Tushman, M. L., and Romanelli, E. (1985), "Organizational evolution: A metamorphosis model of convergence and reorientation", in Staw, B (Ed.) Research in Organizational Behaviour, Vol. 7, Jai Press, Greenwich: CA, pp. 171-222.
" name="eprints.referencetext" />
<meta content="Jones, Colin D. (2007) Using Old Concepts to Gain New Insights: Addressing the Issue of Consistency. Management Decision, 45 (1). pp. 29-42. ISSN 0025-1747" name="eprints.citation" />
<meta content="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/857/1/Management_Decision_Copy.pdf" name="eprints.document_url" />
<meta content="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/857/2/Jones06-Using_Old_Concepts.pdf" name="eprints.document_url" />
<link rel="schema.DC" href="http://purl.org/DC/elements/1.0/" />
<meta content="Using Old Concepts to Gain New Insights: Addressing the Issue of Consistency" name="DC.title" />
<meta content="Jones, Colin D." name="DC.creator" />
<meta content="349999 Economics not elsewhere classified" name="DC.subject" />
<meta content="350209 Small Business Management" name="DC.subject" />
<meta content="350299 Business and Management not elsewhere classified" name="DC.subject" />
<meta content="Purpose of the paper: This paper aims to go beyond a bookkeeping approach to evolutionary analysis whereby surviving firms are better adapted and extinct firms were less adapted. From discussion of the preliminary findings of research into the Hobart pizza industry, evidence is presented of the need to adopt a more traditional approach to applying evolutionary theories with organizational research.
Methodology/Approach: After a brief review of the relevant literature, the preliminary findings of research into the Hobart pizza industry are presented. Then, several evolutionary concepts that are common place in ecological research are introduced to help explain the emergent findings. The paper concludes with consideration given too advancing a more consistent approach to employing evolutionary theories within organizational research.
Findings: The process of selection can not be assumed to occur evenly across time and/or space. Within geographically small markets different forms of selection operate in different ways and degrees requiring the use of more traditional evolutionary theories to highlight the causal process associated with population change.
Research Implications: The paper concludes by highlighting Geoffery Hodgson's Principle of Consistency. It is demonstrated that a failure to truly understand how and why theory is used in one domain will likely result in its misuse in another domain. That at present, too few evolutionary concepts are employed in organisational research too ensure an appreciation of any underlying causal processes through which social change occurs.
What is the original/value of paper: The concepts introduced throughout this paper, whilst not new, provide new entry points for organizational researchers intent of employing an evolutionary approach to understand the process of social change.
" name="DC.description" />
<meta content="2007" name="DC.date" />
<meta content="Article" name="DC.type" />
<meta content="PeerReviewed" name="DC.type" />
<meta content="application/pdf" name="DC.format" />
<meta content="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/857/1/Management_Decision_Copy.pdf" name="DC.identifier" />
<meta content="application/pdf" name="DC.format" />
<meta content="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/857/2/Jones06-Using_Old_Concepts.pdf" name="DC.identifier" />
<meta content="http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/00251740710718944" name="DC.relation" />
<meta content="Jones, Colin D. (2007) Using Old Concepts to Gain New Insights: Addressing the Issue of Consistency. Management Decision, 45 (1). pp. 29-42. ISSN 0025-1747" name="DC.identifier" />
<meta content="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/857/" name="DC.relation" />
<link rel="alternate" href="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/cgi/export/857/BibTeX/epprod-eprint-857.bib" title="BibTeX" type="text/plain" />
<link rel="alternate" href="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/cgi/export/857/ContextObject/epprod-eprint-857.xml" title="OpenURL ContextObject" type="text/xml" />
<link rel="alternate" href="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/cgi/export/857/ContextObject::Dissertation/epprod-eprint-857.xml" title="OpenURL Dissertation" type="text/xml" />
<link rel="alternate" href="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/cgi/export/857/ContextObject::Journal/epprod-eprint-857.xml" title="OpenURL Journal" type="text/xml" />
<link rel="alternate" href="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/cgi/export/857/DC/epprod-eprint-857.txt" title="Dublin Core" type="text/plain" />
<link rel="alternate" href="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/cgi/export/857/DIDL/epprod-eprint-857.xml" title="DIDL" type="text/xml" />
<link rel="alternate" href="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/cgi/export/857/EndNote/epprod-eprint-857.enw" title="EndNote" type="text/plain" />
<link rel="alternate" href="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/cgi/export/857/HTML/epprod-eprint-857.html" title="HTML Citation" type="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<link rel="alternate" href="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/cgi/export/857/METS/epprod-eprint-857.xml" title="METS" type="text/xml" />
<link rel="alternate" href="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/cgi/export/857/MODS/epprod-eprint-857.xml" title="MODS" type="text/xml" />
<link rel="alternate" href="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/cgi/export/857/RIS/epprod-eprint-857.ris" title="Reference Manager" type="text/plain" />
<link rel="alternate" href="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/cgi/export/857/Refer/epprod-eprint-857.refer" title="Refer" type="text/plain" />
<link rel="alternate" href="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/cgi/export/857/Simple/epprod-eprint-857text" title="Simple Metadata" type="text/plain" />
<link rel="alternate" href="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/cgi/export/857/Text/epprod-eprint-857.txt" title="ASCII Citation" type="text/plain; charset=utf-8" />
<link rel="alternate" href="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/cgi/export/857/XML/epprod-eprint-857.xml" title="EP3 XML" type="text/xml" />
</head>
<body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000" onLoad="loadRoutine(); MM_preloadImages('images/eprints/ePrints_banner_r5_c5_f2.gif','images/eprints/ePrints_banner_r5_c7_f2.gif','images/eprints/ePrints_banner_r5_c8_f2.gif','images/eprints/ePrints_banner_r5_c9_f2.gif','images/eprints/ePrints_banner_r5_c10_f2.gif','images/eprints/ePrints_banner_r5_c11_f2.gif','images/eprints/ePrints_banner_r6_c4_f2.gif')">
<div class="ep_noprint"><noscript><style type="text/css">@import url(http://eprints.utas.edu.au/style/nojs.css);</style></noscript></div>
<table width="795" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
<tr>
<td><script language="JavaScript1.2">mmLoadMenus();</script>
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="795">
<!-- fwtable fwsrc="eprints_banner_final2.png" fwbase="ePrints_banner.gif" fwstyle="Dreamweaver" fwdocid = "1249563342" fwnested="0" -->
<tr>
<td><img src="/images/eprints/spacer.gif" width="32" height="1" border="0" alt="" /></td>
<td><img src="/images/eprints/spacer.gif" width="104" height="1" border="0" alt="" /></td>
<td><img src="/images/eprints/spacer.gif" width="44" height="1" border="0" alt="" /></td>
<td><img src="/images/eprints/spacer.gif" width="105" height="1" border="0" alt="" /></td>
<td><img src="/images/eprints/spacer.gif" width="41" height="1" border="0" alt="" /></td>
<td><img src="/images/eprints/spacer.gif" width="16" height="1" border="0" alt="" /></td>
<td><img src="/images/eprints/spacer.gif" width="68" height="1" border="0" alt="" /></td>
<td><img src="/images/eprints/spacer.gif" width="68" height="1" border="0" alt="" /></td>
<td><img src="/images/eprints/spacer.gif" width="68" height="1" border="0" alt="" /></td>
<td><img src="/images/eprints/spacer.gif" width="82" height="1" border="0" alt="" /></td>
<td><img src="/images/eprints/spacer.gif" width="69" height="1" border="0" alt="" /></td>
<td><img src="/images/eprints/spacer.gif" width="98" height="1" border="0" alt="" /></td>
<td><img src="/images/eprints/spacer.gif" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="12"><img name="ePrints_banner_r1_c1" src="/images/eprints/ePrints_banner_r1_c1.gif" width="795" height="10" border="0" alt="" /></td>
<td><img src="/images/eprints/spacer.gif" width="1" height="10" border="0" alt="" /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td rowspan="6"><img name="ePrints_banner_r2_c1" src="/images/eprints/ePrints_banner_r2_c1.gif" width="32" height="118" border="0" alt="" /></td>
<td rowspan="5"><a href="http://www.utas.edu.au/"><img name="ePrints_banner_r2_c2" src="/images/eprints/ePrints_banner_r2_c2.gif" width="104" height="103" border="0" alt="" /></a></td>
<td colspan="10"><img name="ePrints_banner_r2_c3" src="/images/eprints/ePrints_banner_r2_c3.gif" width="659" height="41" border="0" alt="" /></td>
<td><img src="/images/eprints/spacer.gif" width="1" height="41" border="0" alt="" /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="3"><a href="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/"><img name="ePrints_banner_r3_c3" src="/images/eprints/ePrints_banner_r3_c3.gif" width="190" height="31" border="0" alt="" /></a></td>
<td rowspan="2" colspan="7"><img name="ePrints_banner_r3_c6" src="/images/eprints/ePrints_banner_r3_c6.gif" width="469" height="37" border="0" alt="" /></td>
<td><img src="/images/eprints/spacer.gif" width="1" height="31" border="0" alt="" /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="3"><img name="ePrints_banner_r4_c3" src="/images/eprints/ePrints_banner_r4_c3.gif" width="190" height="6" border="0" alt="" /></td>
<td><img src="/images/eprints/spacer.gif" width="1" height="6" border="0" alt="" /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2"><img name="ePrints_banner_r5_c3" src="/images/eprints/ePrints_banner_r5_c3.gif" width="149" height="1" border="0" alt="" /></td>
<td rowspan="2" colspan="2"><a href="/information.html" onMouseOut="MM_swapImgRestore();MM_startTimeout()" onMouseOver="MM_showMenu(window.mm_menu_0821132634_0,0,25,null,'ePrints_banner_r5_c5');MM_swapImage('ePrints_banner_r5_c5','','/images/eprints/ePrints_banner_r5_c5_f2.gif',1);"><img name="ePrints_banner_r5_c5" src="/images/eprints/ePrints_banner_r5_c5.gif" width="57" height="25" border="0" alt="About" /></a></td>
<td rowspan="2"><a href="/view/" onMouseOut="MM_swapImgRestore();MM_startTimeout()" onMouseOver="MM_showMenu(window.mm_menu_0821133021_1,0,25,null,'ePrints_banner_r5_c7');MM_swapImage('ePrints_banner_r5_c7','','/images/eprints/ePrints_banner_r5_c7_f2.gif',1);"><img name="ePrints_banner_r5_c7" src="/images/eprints/ePrints_banner_r5_c7.gif" width="68" height="25" border="0" alt="Browse" /></a></td>
<td rowspan="2"><a href="/perl/search/simple" onMouseOut="MM_swapImgRestore();MM_startTimeout()" onMouseOver="MM_showMenu(window.mm_menu_0821133201_2,0,25,null,'ePrints_banner_r5_c8');MM_swapImage('ePrints_banner_r5_c8','','/images/eprints/ePrints_banner_r5_c8_f2.gif',1);"><img name="ePrints_banner_r5_c8" src="/images/eprints/ePrints_banner_r5_c8.gif" width="68" height="25" border="0" alt="Search" /></a></td>
<td rowspan="2"><a href="/perl/register" onMouseOut="MM_swapImgRestore();MM_startTimeout();" onMouseOver="MM_showMenu(window.mm_menu_1018171924_3,0,25,null,'ePrints_banner_r5_c9');MM_swapImage('ePrints_banner_r5_c9','','/images/eprints/ePrints_banner_r5_c9_f2.gif',1);"><img name="ePrints_banner_r5_c9" src="/images/eprints/ePrints_banner_r5_c9.gif" width="68" height="25" border="0" alt="register" /></a></td>
<td rowspan="2"><a href="/perl/users/home" onMouseOut="MM_swapImgRestore();MM_startTimeout()" onMouseOver="MM_showMenu(window.mm_menu_0821133422_4,0,25,null,'ePrints_banner_r5_c10');MM_swapImage('ePrints_banner_r5_c10','','/images/eprints/ePrints_banner_r5_c10_f2.gif',1);"><img name="ePrints_banner_r5_c10" src="/images/eprints/ePrints_banner_r5_c10.gif" width="82" height="25" border="0" alt="user area" /></a></td>
<td rowspan="2"><a href="/help/" onMouseOut="MM_swapImgRestore();MM_startTimeout()" onMouseOver="MM_showMenu(window.mm_menu_0821133514_5,0,25,null,'ePrints_banner_r5_c11');MM_swapImage('ePrints_banner_r5_c11','','/images/eprints/ePrints_banner_r5_c11_f2.gif',1);"><img name="ePrints_banner_r5_c11" src="/images/eprints/ePrints_banner_r5_c11.gif" width="69" height="25" border="0" alt="Help" /></a></td>
<td rowspan="3" colspan="4"><img name="ePrints_banner_r5_c12" src="/images/eprints/ePrints_banner_r5_c12.gif" width="98" height="40" border="0" alt="" /></td>
<td><img src="/images/eprints/spacer.gif" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td rowspan="2"><img name="ePrints_banner_r6_c3" src="/images/eprints/ePrints_banner_r6_c3.gif" width="44" height="39" border="0" alt="ePrints home" /></td>
<td><a href="/" onMouseOut="MM_swapImgRestore()" onMouseOver="MM_swapImage('ePrints_banner_r6_c4','','/images/eprints/ePrints_banner_r6_c4_f2.gif',1);"><img name="ePrints_banner_r6_c4" src="/images/eprints/ePrints_banner_r6_c4.gif" width="105" height="24" border="0" alt="ePrints home" /></a></td>
<td><img src="/images/eprints/spacer.gif" width="1" height="24" border="0" alt="" /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><img name="ePrints_banner_r7_c2" src="/images/eprints/ePrints_banner_r7_c2.gif" width="104" height="15" border="0" alt="" /></td>
<td colspan="8"><img name="ePrints_banner_r7_c4" src="/images/eprints/ePrints_banner_r7_c4.gif" width="517" height="15" border="0" alt="" /></td>
<td><img src="/images/eprints/spacer.gif" width="1" height="15" border="0" alt="" /></td>
</tr>
</table></td>
</tr>
<tr><td><table width="100%" style="font-size: 90%; border: solid 1px #ccc; padding: 3px"><tr>
<td align="left"><a href="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/cgi/users/home">Login</a> | <a href="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/cgi/register">Create Account</a></td>
<td align="right" style="white-space: nowrap">
<form method="get" accept-charset="utf-8" action="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/cgi/search" style="display:inline">
<input class="ep_tm_searchbarbox" size="20" type="text" name="q" />
<input class="ep_tm_searchbarbutton" value="Search" type="submit" name="_action_search" />
<input type="hidden" name="_order" value="bytitle" />
<input type="hidden" name="basic_srchtype" value="ALL" />
<input type="hidden" name="_satisfyall" value="ALL" />
</form>
</td>
</tr></table></td></tr>
<tr>
<td class="toplinks"><!-- InstanceBeginEditable name="content" -->
<div align="center">
<table width="720" class="ep_tm_main"><tr><td align="left">
<h1 class="ep_tm_pagetitle">Using Old Concepts to Gain New Insights: Addressing the Issue of Consistency</h1>
<p style="margin-bottom: 1em" class="not_ep_block"><span class="person_name">Jones, Colin D.</span> (2007) <xhtml:em>Using Old Concepts to Gain New Insights: Addressing the Issue of Consistency.</xhtml:em> Management Decision, 45 (1). pp. 29-42. ISSN 0025-1747</p><p style="margin-bottom: 1em" class="not_ep_block"></p><table style="margin-bottom: 1em" class="not_ep_block"><tr><td valign="top" style="text-align:center"><a href="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/857/1/Management_Decision_Copy.pdf"><img alt="[img]" src="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/style/images/fileicons/application_pdf.png" class="ep_doc_icon" border="0" /></a></td><td valign="top"><a href="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/857/1/Management_Decision_Copy.pdf"><span class="ep_document_citation">PDF</span></a> - Full text restricted - Requires a PDF viewer<br />907Kb</td></tr><tr><td valign="top" style="text-align:center"><a onmouseover="EPJS_ShowPreview( event, 'doc_preview_861' );" href="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/857/2/Jones06-Using_Old_Concepts.pdf" onmouseout="EPJS_HidePreview( event, 'doc_preview_861' );"><img alt="[img]" src="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/style/images/fileicons/application_pdf.png" class="ep_doc_icon" border="0" /></a><div class="ep_preview" id="doc_preview_861"><table><tr><td><img alt="" src="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/857/thumbnails/2/preview.png" class="ep_preview_image" border="0" /><div class="ep_preview_title">Preview</div></td></tr></table></div></td><td valign="top"><a href="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/857/2/Jones06-Using_Old_Concepts.pdf"><span class="ep_document_citation">PDF (Author Version)</span></a> - Requires a PDF viewer<br />119Kb</td></tr></table><p style="margin-bottom: 1em" class="not_ep_block">Official URL: <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/00251740710718944">http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/00251740710718944</a></p><div class="not_ep_block"><h2>Abstract</h2><p style="padding-bottom: 16px; text-align: left; margin: 1em auto 0em auto">Purpose of the paper: This paper aims to go beyond a bookkeeping approach to evolutionary analysis whereby surviving firms are better adapted and extinct firms were less adapted. From discussion of the preliminary findings of research into the Hobart pizza industry, evidence is presented of the need to adopt a more traditional approach to applying evolutionary theories with organizational research.
Methodology/Approach: After a brief review of the relevant literature, the preliminary findings of research into the Hobart pizza industry are presented. Then, several evolutionary concepts that are common place in ecological research are introduced to help explain the emergent findings. The paper concludes with consideration given too advancing a more consistent approach to employing evolutionary theories within organizational research.
Findings: The process of selection can not be assumed to occur evenly across time and/or space. Within geographically small markets different forms of selection operate in different ways and degrees requiring the use of more traditional evolutionary theories to highlight the causal process associated with population change.
Research Implications: The paper concludes by highlighting Geoffery Hodgson's Principle of Consistency. It is demonstrated that a failure to truly understand how and why theory is used in one domain will likely result in its misuse in another domain. That at present, too few evolutionary concepts are employed in organisational research too ensure an appreciation of any underlying causal processes through which social change occurs.
What is the original/value of paper: The concepts introduced throughout this paper, whilst not new, provide new entry points for organizational researchers intent of employing an evolutionary approach to understand the process of social change.
</p></div><table style="margin-bottom: 1em" cellpadding="3" class="not_ep_block" border="0"><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">Item Type:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row">Article</td></tr><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">Additional Information:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row">Copyright 2007 Emerald Group. Reproduced in accordance with the publishers policy. The definitive published version is available online at:http://www.emeraldinsight.com/info/journals/md/md.jsp
</td></tr><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">Keywords:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row">Selection, Adaptation, Selective Environmental Neighbourhoods and the Principle of Consistency</td></tr><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">Subjects:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row"><a href="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/view/subjects/349999.html">340000 Economics > 349900 Other Economics > 349999 Economics not elsewhere classified</a><br /><a href="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/view/subjects/350209.html">350000 Commerce, Management, Tourism and Services > 350200 Business and Management > 350209 Small Business Management</a><br /><a href="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/view/subjects/350299.html">350000 Commerce, Management, Tourism and Services > 350200 Business and Management > 350299 Business and Management not elsewhere classified</a></td></tr><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">ID Code:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row">857</td></tr><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">Deposited By:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row"><span class="ep_name_citation"><span class="person_name">Mr Colin D Jones</span></span></td></tr><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">Deposited On:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row">21 Mar 2007</td></tr><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">Last Modified:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row">09 Jan 2008 02:30</td></tr><tr><th valign="top" class="ep_row">ePrint Statistics:</th><td valign="top" class="ep_row"><a target="ePrintStats" href="/es/index.php?action=show_detail_eprint;id=857;">View statistics for this ePrint</a></td></tr></table><p align="right">Repository Staff Only: <a href="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/cgi/users/home?screen=EPrint::View&eprintid=857">item control page</a></p>
</td></tr></table>
</div>
<!-- InstanceEndEditable --></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><!-- #BeginLibraryItem "/Library/footer_eprints.lbi" -->
<table width="795" border="0" align="left" cellpadding="0" class="footer">
<tr valign="top">
<td colspan="2"><div align="center"><a href="http://www.utas.edu.au">UTAS home</a> | <a href="http://www.utas.edu.au/library/">Library home</a> | <a href="/">ePrints home</a> | <a href="/contact.html">contact</a> | <a href="/information.html">about</a> | <a href="/view/">browse</a> | <a href="/perl/search/simple">search</a> | <a href="/perl/register">register</a> | <a href="/perl/users/home">user area</a> | <a href="/help/">help</a></div><br /></td>
</tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"><p><img src="/images/eprints/footerline.gif" width="100%" height="4" /></p></td></tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td width="68%" class="footer">Authorised by the University Librarian<br />
© University of Tasmania ABN 30 764 374 782<br />
<a href="http://www.utas.edu.au/cricos/">CRICOS Provider Code 00586B</a> | <a href="http://www.utas.edu.au/copyright/copyright_disclaimers.html">Copyright & Disclaimers</a> | <a href="http://www.utas.edu.au/accessibility/index.html">Accessibility</a> | <a href="http://eprints.utas.edu.au/feedback/">Site Feedback</a> </td>
<td width="32%"><div align="right">
<p align="right" class="NoPrint"><a href="http://www.utas.edu.au/"><img src="http://www.utas.edu.au/shared/logos/unioftasstrip.gif" alt="University of Tasmania Home Page" width="260" height="16" border="0" align="right" /></a></p>
<p align="right" class="NoPrint"><a href="http://www.utas.edu.au/"><br />
</a></p>
</div></td>
</tr>
<tr valign="top">
<td><p> </p></td>
<td><div align="right"><span class="NoPrint"><a href="http://www.eprints.org/software/"><img src="/images/eprintslogo.gif" alt="ePrints logo" width="77" height="29" border="0" align="bottom" /></a></span></div></td>
</tr>
</table>
<!-- #EndLibraryItem -->
<div align="center"></div></td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>
