Howard Aldrich
Academy of Management Scholar Howard Aldrich – of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business, and Cambridge University’s Sidney Sussex College – earned his Ph.D. at the University of Michigan. His main research interests are entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial team formation, gender and entrepreneurship, and evolutionary theory.
Aldrich is an evolutionary sociologist whose work explores how organizations and societies change, particularly under conditions of uncertainty.
Academy of Management Scholar Howard Aldrich – of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business, and Cambridge University’s Sidney Sussex College – earned his Ph.D. at the University of Michigan. His main research interests are entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial team formation, gender and entrepreneurship, and evolutionary theory.
Aldrich is an evolutionary sociologist whose work explores how organizations and societies change, particularly under conditions of uncertainty.
His 1979 book, Organizations and Environments, was reprinted in 2007 by Stanford University Press in its Business Classics series. His book, Organizations Evolving (1999, 2020), won the George Terry Award from the Academy of Management. His book, An Evolutionary Approach to Entrepreneurship: Selected Essays, was published by Edward Elgar in 2012.
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