Intraorganizational evolution

Intraorganizational evolution (iOE) is a relatively new, emergent area of research. Although evolutionary metaphors have often surfaced in organization theory, attempts to analyze the evolutionary dynamics unfolding within organizations have been quite sparse and systematic only in recent years. The basic concepts and tools of iOE are thus still in the process of being shaped. As a subject of analysis, iOE is the set of processes through which intraorganizational entities of different types (e.g. routines, jobs, formal rules) reproduce and modify themselves, and change their relative frequency in populations of individuals carrying them. As a theoretical perspective, it is the attempt to apply the lens of evolutionary thinking to the observation and understanding of these processes.