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Howard Aldrich's Profile

Location:: Chapel Hill, NC USA

Reviewer Rank:: 5,905

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Web page:: http://www.unc.edu/~heald...

Biography: Howard Aldrich is Kenan Professor of Sociology, Adjunct Professor of Business, and Chair of Department of Sociology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He is the author of 5 books and over 140 articles. More details about his work are available on his web page.
Interests: Traveling, live theatre, jazz, & whale watching.

Favorite Items

Favorite Books

Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond
Change Your Voice : Change Your Life : A Quick, Simple Plan for Finding & Using Your Natural Dynamic Voice by Morton Cooper
The Art of Changing the Brain: Enriching the Practice of Teaching by Exploring the Biology of Learning by James Zull
Punished By Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise and Other Bribes by Alfie Kohn

Favorite Music

The Girl In The Other Room ~ Diana Krall

Favorite Movies

Bank Dick VHS ~ W.C. Fields
Even Dwarfs Started Small VHS ~ Helmut D�ring
The American Friend VHS ~ Ismael Alonso
You Can't Cheat an Honest Man (1939) VHS ~ W.C. Fields

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Bibliography

1.		Organizations and Environments (Stanford Business Classics) Amazon.com Sales Rank: #514,533 in Books Publication Date: October 26, 2007
2.		Ethnic Entrepreneurs: Immigrant Business in Industrial Societies Amazon.com Sales Rank: #435,810 in Books Average Customer Review: based on 1 review Publication Date: July 18, 2006
3.		Organizations and Environments Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,071,157 in Books Publication Date: March 7, 2006
4.		Organizations Evolving Amazon.com Sales Rank: #461,407 in Books Average Customer Review: based on 5 reviews Publication Date: March 3, 2006
5.		Social Capital and Entrepreneurship (Foundations and Trends(R) in Entrepreneurship) Amazon.com Sales Rank: #896,418 in Books Average Customer Review: based on 1 review Publication Date: May 30, 2005
6.		Organizations Evolving Amazon.com Sales Rank: #719,073 in Books Average Customer Review: based on 8 reviews Publication Date: October 1, 1999
7.		Ethnic Entrepreneurs: Immigrant Business in Industrial Societies (SAGE Series on Race and Ethnic Relations) Amazon.com Sales Rank: #2,486,172 in Books Average Customer Review: based on 1 review Publication Date: February 1, 1990

Reviews

Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die by Chip Heath

29 of 34 people found the following review helpful:

Creative suggestions that writers and teachers can use, January 22, 2007

Although aimed at a business audience, I found the authors' suggestions for effective communication equally applicable in classrooms and writing projects. Success in helping students learn or persuading readers follows from applying the "SUCCESs" formula: keep your message Simple but profound;... Read More

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	Organizations and Environments (Stanford Business Classics) by Howard Aldrich Howard's tags: boundaries, collective action, environment, industry, organization, organization management, organization theory, organizational behavior, organizational population, power, rational choice, resource dependence, selection logic, strategy, transactions cost economics Customer tags: boundaries (2), organization (2), strategy (2), collective action (1), environment (1), See all 15 tags...

	Organizations Evolving by Howard Aldrich Howard's tags: boundaries, entrepreneur, entrepreneurship, evolution, organization behavior, organization change, organizational learning, social networks Customer tags: boundaries (1), entrepreneur (1), entrepreneurship (1), evolution (1), organization behavior (1), See all 8 tags...

	Social Capital and Entrepreneurship (Foundations and Trends(R) in Entrepreneurship) by Phillip H. Kim, Howard Aldrich Howard's tags: direct ties, indirect ties, networking, scale free, small world, small worlds, social network analysis, social networks, strong ties, weak ties Customer tags: entrepreneur (2), social capital (2), direct ties (1), friendster (1), indirect ties (1), See all 15 tags...

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Organizations and Environments (Stanford Business Classics)

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Why is this item relevant? "Originally written in the late 1970s, this book will give readers an overview of the conditions under which many of today's popular perspectives -- resource dependence, organizational ecology, etc -- were developed. It gives the historical context for many of today's ideas."

Ethnic Entrepreneurs: Immigrant Business in Industrial Societies (SAGE Series on Race and Ethnic Relations)

Shows on searches for "entrepreneurship"

Why is this item relevant? "This book has a general model of enterpreneurship in Chapter 1 that applies across the board, regardless of ethnic or non-ethnic"

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