Table of Contents

Introduction. Stagnation and evolution in industry. Evolution as model for business growth. Research objectives and methodology.- Part I: Evolutionary Models for Organizations. Interaction between organization and environment as evolutionary process. Evolutionary models for genetic variation. Landscape fitness and adaptation. Hypotheses for the evolution of organizations. Concluding evolutionary biology.- Part II: Review of Management Approaches. Technology management and innovation. Process innovation and business process re-engineering. learning organisation and knowledge management. Preluding the dynamic capability. Part III: Framework for Dynamic Adaptation Capability. Development of framework for adaptation. Application on strategic capacity management. Case studies.- Epilogue.- Conclusions.- Recommendations.