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Peer reviewedAstley, W. Graham – Administrative Science Quarterly, 1985
This paper distinguishes between two ecological perspectives on organizational evolution: population ecology, which limits investigation to evolutionary change in established populations, and community ecology, which focuses on the rise and fall of populations themselves as basic units of evolutionary change. These perspectives produce contrasting…
Descriptors: Ecological Factors, Ecology, Evolution, Group Dynamics
