The red queen among organizations : how competitiveness evolves

Summary: There's a scene in Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass in which the Red Queen, having just led a chase with Alice in which neither seems to have moved from the spot where they began, explains to the perplexed girl: "It takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place." Evolutionary biologists have used this scene to illustrate the evolutionary arms race among competing species. William Barnett argues that a similar dynamic is at work when organizations compete, shaping how firms and industries evolve over time. Barnett examines the effects--and unforeseen perils--of competing.

Record details

ISBN: 1400824486
ISBN: 9781400824489
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xii, 279 pages) : illustrations
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Publisher: Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2008.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-273) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Why are some organizations more competitive than others? -- Logics of competition -- The red queen -- Empirically modeling the red queen -- Red queen competition among commercial banks -- Red queen competition among computer manufacturers -- The red queen and organizational inertia -- Some implications of red queen competition.
Restrictions on Access Note:	NLC staff and students only.
Source of Description Note:	Print version record.