Organizational Dynamics of Creative Destruction

STEPHEN MEZIAS is a leading researcher in the field of organizational theory and an associate professor of management at New York University. He received his PhD in Organizational Behaviour from Stanford University.ELIZABETH BOYLE is a doctoral candidate in management at New York University. Her work focuses on entrepreneurship as a systems level phenomenon and on competitive decision making.

• Introduction PART 1 ECOLOGIES OF LEARNING AND INTRAPRENEURSHIP The Three Faces of Corporate Renewal Mimetic Learning and the Evolution of Organizational Populations PART 2 THE EVOLUTIONARY DYNAMICS OF NEW INDUSTRY CREATION Resource Partitioning, the Founding of Specialist Firms and Innovation The Community Dynamics of Entrepreneurship: The Birth of the American Film Industry, 1895-1929 PART 3 THE ROLE OF INSTITUTIONS IN NEW INDUSTRY EMERGENCE Legal Environments and the Population Dynamics of Entrepreneurship Industry Creation, Legitimacy and Foundings Organizational Dynamics of Creative Destruction