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Harrison, James Richard Son of Charles and Mary Harrison.
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Culture and Demography in Organizations
( How do corporations and other organizations maintain an...)
How do corporations and other organizations maintain and transmit their cultures over time? Culture and Demography in Organizations offers the most reliable and comprehensive answer to this complex question to date. The first book on the subject to ground its analysis in mathematical tools and computer simulation, it goes beyond standard approaches, which focus on socialization within organizations, by explicitly considering the effects of demographic processes of entry, exit, and organizational growth. J. Richard Harrison and Glenn R. Carroll base their analysis on a formal model with three components: hiring, socialization, and employee turnover. In exploring the model's implications through computer simulation methods, the authors cover topics such as organizational growth and decline, top management teams, organizational influence networks, terrorist organizations, cultural integration following mergers, and organizational failure. For each topic, they identify the conditions influencing cultural transmission. In general, they find that demographic processes play a central role in influencing organizational culture and that studying these processes leads to some surprising insights unavailable when considering socialization alone. This book, which also serves as an ideal introduction to the increasingly popular use of computer simulation, will be an indispensable resource for scholars and students of organization theory and behavior, cultural studies, strategic management, sociology, economics, and social simulation.
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[(Culture and Demography in Organizations )] [Author: J. Richard Harrison] [Dec-2005]
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James Richard Harrison
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Bachelor of Science in Mathematics with high honors, University Oklahoma, 1969. Bachelor of Science in Physics, University Oklahoma, 1976. Doctor of Philosophy in Business, Stanford University, 1986.
Career
Vice president academy affairs Associate Students of University California, Berkeley, 1972-1973, executive director graduate student association, 1976-1978. Vice president Siren Records, San Francisco, 1976-1978. Assistant professor Business University Arizona, Tucson, 1983-1985.
Assistant professor management University Texas, Dallas, 1985-1991, associate professor management, since 1991, associate dean school Management, 1991-1995, director Russian Institute, 1993-1996. President Hot Earth Films, since 2007. Referee, member editorial board various academy journals, since 1980.
Co-coordinator St. Petersburg (Russia) International Consortium of Universities, 1993-1995.
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Culture and Demography in Organizations
( How do corporations and other organizations maintain an...)
- [(Culture and Demography in Organizations )] [Author: J. Richard Harrison] [Dec-2005]
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Culture and Demography in Organizations
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Active Dallas County Democratic Party, 1990-1996, precinct chair, 1990-1996. Election judge, 1990-1995. Member Academy Management, Strategic Management Society, European Social Simulation Association, International Academy of Sciences for Higher Education, St. Petersburg Academy Engineering, European Group for Organization Studies, Phi Beta Kappa.
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1972 - 1973
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Recipient Teaching Excellence award Halliburton Corporation. Russian Business School Founding grant, United States Information Agency, 1994, Product Development Research grant, Stavanger (Norway) Center Innovation Research, 2008.Recipient Teaching Excellence award Halliburton Corporation. Russian Business School Founding grant, United States Information Agency, 1994, Product Development Research grant, Stavanger (Norway) Center Innovation Research, 2008.