Based On The Evolution Of Enterprise Clusters And Influencing Factors Of Organizing The Concept Of Population Ecology Research

Organizational ecology is an essential part of the the organizational evolution theory which has been developing fast these decades. Organizational ecology has absorbed and derived from the other vital organizational theories ever since. It deals with the environmental selection processes and the organizational adaptation processes as well. Organizational ecology has a powerful explanation for the population evolution process and is attempting to explain and predict the phenomena of clusters recently. As an important means and part of organizational evolution, organizational learning processes are influenced not only by the firm's past experiences itself, but by all sorts of organizational elements, both internally and externally, such as firm's scale, tenure, resource possession, market position, co-opetiton interaction. In this paper, I take advantage of organizational learning, resource partitioning, niches width and other important ecological theories to study the firm's adaptive behavior in a larger population evolutionary context.As the basis of analysis, this paper first summarizes some basic concepts of organizational ecology. Built on this basis, this article bring out the model of organizational population evolution process. At the meantime, I reshape the idea of industrial cluster evolution by regarding a cluster as a special phenomenon of industrial population, that is, a local subpopulation which evolve relatively independently of the whole industry.The evolutionary research of economics could be divided into two different processes. One is the selection process that the whole industry or environment works and the other is the self-motivated adaptive process that every firm undertakes in order to survive. Organizational learning is the process by which firms adapt to their environment variation. In the following chapter 4,I observe firm's adaptive learning behavior in a macro evolutionary context of population, by integrating the process of population evolution and organizational learning using the organizational capability theory. Empirical study on two domestic high-tech industry cluster is being used to test the previous propositions.It should be confessed that the theories about organizational learning and evolution used in this paper are very limited. In the end, I recognize some weakness in the paper outlined some theoretical and empirical limitations which may be improved in the future.