approaches to organization theory
concepts
managing environments
Organizational ecology (OE) shifts the traditional focus from individuals and organizations to organizational populations and interpopulation interactions. The ecological approach can avoid the so-called selection bias that organizational studies tend to suffer from by their one-sided focus on the well-visible organizations that have been around for a while, so neglecting the impact of the huge number of organizations that have failed, often in their early history. [Source: International Encyclopedia of Organization Studies; Organizational Ecology]
organizational ecology
organizational theory