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Kniffin, Kevin Michael.

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Applications of multilevel selection theory to human business organizations.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Applications of multilevel selection theory to human business organizations./
Author:	Kniffin, Kevin Michael.
Description:	201 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 63-03, Section: A, page: 1024.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International63-03A.
Subject:	Anthropology, Cultural. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3047724
ISBN:	9780493618319

Applications of multilevel selection theory to human business organizations.
Kniffin, Kevin Michael.

Applications of multilevel selection theory to human business organizations. - 201 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 63-03, Section: A, page: 1024.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--State University of New York at Binghamton, 2002.

Multilevel selectionists advocate a framework that tests for selection at multiple levels of organization. This approach contrasts with alternative proposals such as "selfish gene theory" that contend that selection occurs at only one level of organization. This thesis reviews earlier applications of multilevel selection theory to human social groups, and outlines an approach that is specific to the study of human business organizations. I present findings from an original case study involving a sample of small firms competing in a shared market, and argue that such context-specific tests are necessary to develop a pluralistic evolutionary framework for the study of business organizations. The case study tests two general hypotheses derived from multilevel selection theory. First, I consider whether there exists important variation at the level of firms. Second, I test for relationships between inter-firm variation and measures of firm performance. Significant between-firm differences are reported with regard to the prosocial and antisocial orientations of firm employees. Additionally, significant relationships are reported between measures of firm performance and variable degrees of prosocial values. These findings support the notion that selection at the level of the firm does occur in the environment considered by the case study. This conclusion has relevance for firm operations as much as it bears importance to debates among evolutionary scientists whether such firm-level selection in fact occurs.

ISBN: 9780493618319Subjects--Topical Terms:

735016
Anthropology, Cultural.

Applications of multilevel selection theory to human business organizations.
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