Autecological Theory of the Firm and its Environment
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Colin Jones, Learning Design Director, Australian Pacific College and Gimme Walter, School of Biological Sciences, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia<i>'Jones and Walter present an alternative view for studying organizations as ecologies, namely the autecological approach. This novel approach to studying organizations centres on the co-evolving relationship between the individual firm and its operational environment. The adaptation of firms is viewed within the context of how they experience and modify their unique operational environments. This firm-centred approach highlights the importance of ecological scale and environment heterogeneity, and the unique relationship between different environmental variables and the firm.'</i>
- Dermot Breslin, Sheffield University Management School, UK,
<i>'An Autecological Theory of the Firm and its Environment <i>posits many important challenges to how social scientists can properly understand organizational adaptation, evolution, and survival. The impressive autecological approach proposed in this book can shed new light on how both scholars and practitioners can interpret a number of phenomena associated with the current practice of business, especially in terms of firm-environment co-evolving relationships.'</i></i>
- Gianpaolo Abatecola, University of Rome ''Tor Vergata'', Italy,
Autecology encourages researchers to contextualize ecological processes of firms, namely, their adaptive behaviors, the structure and dynamics of the environment, and their environmental interactions. This book emancipates the firm and its actors from a host of environmental assumptions that they are thought to share with others. In doing so, the authors explain how and why firms can and should be investigated on an ecological level. Drawing upon the historical and contemporary renaissance of autecological thought, this book elevates the ecological independence of the firm and its actors' agency to solve problems in its environment. This study provides the means to consolidate the ecological study of firms and, more broadly, other forms of ecological study beyond the domain of social studies.
This book will appeal to organizational and managerial researchers, sociologists, and anthropologists, given the manner in which human agency is promoted in an ecological context. Researchers interested in critical realism will also find this an engaging work.