Disequilibrium and complexity across scales: a patch-dynamics framework for organizational ecology.

ABSTRACT: Based on equilibrium assumptions, traditional ecological models have been widely applied in the fields of management and organization studies. While research using these models is still ongoing, studies have nonetheless struggled with ways to address multiple levels of analysis, uncertainty, and complexity in their analyses. This paper conceptualizes the dynamic co-evolution mechanisms that operate in an ecosystem across multiple organizational scales. Specifically, informed by recent advances in modelling in biology, a general 'patch-dynamics' framework that is theoretically and methodologically able to capture disequilibrium, uncertainty, disturbances, and changes in organizational populations or ecosystems, as complex and dynamically evolving resource environments are introduced. Simula

SUBMITTER: Xu J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10163862 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature