Fit By Founding, Fit By Adaptation: Reconciling Conflicting Organization Theories With Logical Formalization
用逻辑形式化方法,调和了组织生态学中红皇后理论与惯性理论关于种群调整方式的矛盾,通过细化环境变化和适应的概念,推导出无矛盾的新结论。
Organizational populations can alter via the individual adaptation of incumbent organizations or via new entrants that match actual conditions. The Red Queen and inertia theories of organizational ecology represent these two forms of population adjustment. However, some of their conclusions contradict each other in their present state. I reconcile their arguments by refining the concepts of environmental change and adaptation. The main points are captured by logical formalization that derives the modified, noncontradicting conclusions as theorems.