Michael T. Hannan

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Michael Thomas Hannan (born July 14, 1943 ) is an American sociologist and emeritus "StrataCom Professor of Management and Professor of Sociology" at the Stanford Graduate School of Business . He gained notoriety for his work on organizational ecology with John H. Freeman .

Life

With a BA from the College of the Holy Cross (1965) he moved to the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill , where he completed his MA in 1968, followed by his Ph.D. in Sociology , 1970.

He began his academic career as an assistant professor at Stanford University , where he rose to professor of sociology. In 1984 he moved to Cornell University as "Scarborough Professor of Social Sciences" , where he met Freeman, who was also working there at the same time. In 1991 he moved back to Stanford University and took over the professorship for sociology and management. From 2005 Hannan also worked as a visiting professor at Durham University in Great Britain. In 2015 Hannan retired.

Work

Organizational ecology

Hannan and Freeman were the first to publish a detailed theory on population ecology . The 1977 article in the American Journal of Sociology added a fundamental branch of research to organizational science. The most important theses are:

  • The approach sees itself as an alternative to the prevailing adaptation theory, according to which organizations adapt to changing environmental conditions. The forces of persistence within organizations, which are characterized by the requirements for reliability and accountability, indicate a preferred use of models that emphasize competition and selection more strongly. Different models are illuminated.
  • Organizational ecology begins with the establishment of organizations ("births"), progresses with growth and change and ends with the dissolution ("death") of the organization. The focus remains on the total number of organizations in an (ecological) niche that offers the organizations their “living space”.

Honors

In 1991 the American Academy of Arts and Sciences selected Hannan as a Fellow and in the same year he was recognized as a Distinguished Scholar by the Organization Theory and Management Division of the Academy of Management . In 1987 he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in Sociology, and in 1992, together with Freeman, and in 2002 with the Max Weber Award of the American Sociological Association . In 2003, one of Hannon's publications won the American Sociological Association's Best Paper Award in Mathematical Sociology , and in 2014 the Princeton Sociology Department awarded it the Theorodology Prize .

bibliography

Books

  • Michael T. Hannan, Glenn R. Carroll, Dynamics of Organizational Populations: Density, Legitimation and Competition ; Oxford University Press, 1992.
  • Michael T. Hannan, Aggregation and Disaggregation in the Social Sciences , Lexington Books, 1992.
  • Michael T. Hannan and John H. Freeman. Organizational ecology . Harvard University Press, 1993.
  • Glenn R. Carroll, Michael T. Hannan, The Demography of Corporations and Industries ; Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000.
  • Michael T. Hannan, László Pólos, Glenn R. Carroll, Logics of Organization Theory: Audiences, Codes, and Ecologies ; Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007

chapter

James N. Baron, Michael T. Hannan, Greta Hsu, Ozgecan Kozak, Gender and the organization-building process in young, high-tech firms ; The New Economic Sociology: Developments in an Emerging Field. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2002, pp. 245-273.

items

  • Michael T. Hannan and John H. Freeman, The population ecology of organizations. American journal of sociology 82.5 (1977): 929-964.
  • Michael T. Hannan and John H. Freeman, Structural inertia and organizational change. American sociological review (1984): 149-164.
  • Michael T. Hannan, László Pólos and Glenn R. Carrol, The Evolution of Inertia , Industrial and Corporate Change, 2004, Volume 13, Number 1, pages 213-242; DOI 10.1093 / icc / 13.1.213;

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Derek S. Pugh and David J. Hickson : Writers on Organization . 5th edition. Penguin Books Ltd., London 1996, p.  82-87 .
  2. ^ Ronald Stuart Burt , Structural holes: The social structure of competition. Harvard university press, 2009
  3. ^ Richard Scott , and Gerald F. Davis . Organizations and organizing: Rational, natural and open systems perspectives. Routledge, 2015
  4. ↑ a b c d e f g h Michael T. Hannan. The StrataCom Professor of Management and Professor of Sociology, Emeritus. Stanford Graduate School of Business, accessed May 27, 2018 .
  5. ↑ a b c Michael T. Hannan , Stanford Graduate School of Business. Accessed March 5, 2017
  6. ^ A b Michael T. Hannan and John H. Freeman: The population ecology of organizations . In: American journal of sociology . 82 No. 5, 1977, pp. 929-964 , doi : 10.1086 / 226424 .

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SURNAME Hannan, Michael T.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hannan, Michael Thomas; Hannan, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American sociologist and organizational researcher
DATE OF BIRTH July 14, 1943