Search Results - subject:"Selectionism"

Operation Warp Speed : projects responding to the COVID-19 pandemic

Winch, Graham; Cao, Dongping; Maytorena-Sanchez, Eunice; … - In: Project leadership and society 2 (2021), pp. 1-10

The 2020 COVID-19 pandemic has profound socio-economic consequences. Extraordinary times call for extraordinary measures, so this paper focuses on radical changes to accepted practice in project organizing in response. In particular, we focus on schedule compression to deliver outputs to...

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Revisiting the past and selecting for the future : an introduction to handbook of organizational performance : foundations and advances

Johnson, Douglas A; Johnson, C. M. - In: Journal of organizational behavior management 42 (2022) 3, pp. 203-209

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"Io che sono Darwinista": la visione di Maffeo Pantaleoni

Mosca, Manuela - In: Il pensiero economico italiano : rivista semestrale 23 (2015) 1, pp. 23-45

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Selectionism and Learning in Projects with Complexity and Unforeseeable Uncertainty

Sommer, Svenja C.; Loch, Christoph H. - In: Management Science 50 (2004) 10, pp. 1334-1347

: trial and error learning and selectionism. Trial and error learning involves a flexible (unplanned) adjustment of the … considered actions and targets to new information about the relevant environment as it emerges. Selectionism involves pursuing … a rugged landscape. We compare the project payoff performance under trial and error learning and selectionism, based on …

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The Selectionist Paradigm: More Implications for Sociology

Marsden, Paul - In: Sociological Research Online 3 (1998) 4, pp. 6-6

This paper argues that despite 50 years of empirical research, the phenomenon of social contagion is still poorly understood. Social contagion research has produced an eclectic, largely confused and jumbled body of evidence that lacks any comprehensive organising principle or conceptual...

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