POL 601: Public Management

ChatGPT: Some major research questions in population ecology within organization theory include:
1. How do organizations compete for resources and survival in their environment?
2. What factors determine the birth, growth, and decline of organizations in a population?
3. How do environmental factors and changes affect the composition and dynamics of organizational populations?
4. How do organizations adapt and evolve to changing environmental conditions and pressures?
5. What are the implications of population-level patterns and processes for individual organizations and the broader society?

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• Astley, W. G. (1985). The two ecologies: Population and community perspectives on organizational evolution. Administrative Science Quarterly, 30: 224-241.

• Wollebaek, D. (2009). Survival in local voluntary associations. Nonprofit Management and Leadership, 19(3): 267–284.
• Nowell, B., & Albrecht, K. (2023). A population ecology of network domains. Public Management Review, 1-24.