Untangling the Conceptual Issues Raised in Reydon and Scholz's Critique of Organizational Ecology and Darwinian Populations

Philosophy of the Social Sciences

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 282-315

  Dollimore, Denise E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

adaptation; Darwinism; Lamarckism; organizational ecology; replicator interactor

Indexed keywords

EID: 84899971724     PISSN: 00483931     EISSN: 15527441     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0048393113481066     Document Type: Article

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