Community Ecology and Employment: Dynamics: A Study of Large Canadian Organizations, 1985–1992

This article adopts a community ecology approach to study the employment dynamics of large Canadian organizations from 1985 to 1992. We construct a dynamic model of organization-level employment incorporating organizational characteristics, interactions with other organizations in a productive secto...

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Published in:Social forces 1994-09, Vol.73 (1), p.1-31
Main Authors: Korn, Helaine J., Joel A.C. Baum
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Canada
Collective action
Community ecological approach
Corporations
Corporations, Canadian
Ecological modeling
Ecological Models
Ecology
Economic models
Economic Sectors
Employment
Employment Changes
Enterprises
Interorganizational Relations
Manufacturing industries
Natural resources
Organization (1985-92)
Organizational analysis
Organizational behaviour
Organizational research
Parametric models
Population ecology
Social aspects
Sociology
Synecology
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Summary:This article adopts a community ecology approach to study the employment dynamics of large Canadian organizations from 1985 to 1992. We construct a dynamic model of organization-level employment incorporating organizational characteristics, interactions with other organizations in a productive sector, relationships with other productive sectors in an economy, and aggregate economic indicators. Our results demonstrate the importance of interactions among different productive sectors for understanding employment dynamics of large organizations in a national economy. Furthermore, they illustrate the benefits of uniting organizational ecology ideas with research on employment dynamics.
ISSN:0037-7732
1534-7605
DOI:10.1093/sf/73.1.1