Organizational ecology: No Darwinian evolution after all. A Rejoinder to Lemos

Philosophy of the Social Sciences

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 504-512

  Scholz, Markus ^a   Reydon, Thomas A C ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Darwinism; Evolution; Organization theory; Organizational ecology; Organizational systematics; Population ecology of organizations

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955383489     PISSN: 00483931     EISSN: 15527441     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0048393109348866     Document Type: Article

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