The DOI matches its OpenAlex record; 2 of the 2 references it cites were found in a registry or an index.
Evolution on a Dancing Landscape: Organizations and Networks in Dynamic Blau Space
Abstract
This article develops and tests an evolutionary model of the growth, decline, and demographic dynamics of voluntary organizations. The model demonstrates a strong analogy between the adaptive landscape of Sewall Wright (1931) and the exploitation surfaces generated by a model of member selection and retention for voluntary associations. The article connects the processes of membership recruitment and loss to the social networks connecting individuals. The model generates dynamic hypotheses about the time path of organizations in sociodemographic dimensions. A key idea in this model is that membership selection processes at the individual level produce adaptation in communities of organizations. The article concludes with an empirical example and some discussion of the implications of the model for a variety of research literatures.
Overview
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Integrity signals
Registry
Cites
Statistics
Verification
Claims the paper makes
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Self-check
Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.
The self-check needs the paper’s full text.
Citations
Cites
The Adolescence of Institutional Theory
Scott, W. R. (1987) · Administrative Science Quarterly · doi:10.2307/2392880 · Cited by 3,699
Sahlins, M., & Graeber, D. (2017) · Routledge (orig. 1972) · doi:10.4324/9781315184951 · Cited by 3,159
Cited by
Birds of a Feather: Homophily in Social Networks
McPherson, M., Smith-Lovin, L., & Cook, J. M. (2001) · Annual Review of Sociology · doi:10.1146/annurev.soc.27.1.415 · Cited by 18,567
Perspective: Complexity Theory and Organization Science
Anderson, P. (1999) · Organization Science · doi:10.1287/orsc.10.3.216 · Cited by 2,118
Social Isolation in America: Changes in core discussion networks over two decades.
McPherson, M., Smith-Lovin, L., & Brashears, M. E. (2006) · American Sociological Review · doi:10.1177/000312240607100301 · Cited by 1,887
Technology as a complex adaptive system: evidence from patent data
Fleming, L., & Sorenson, O. (2001) · Research Policy · doi:10.1016/s0048-7333(00)00135-9 · Cited by 1,315
Dynamics of Dyads in Social Networks: Assortative, Relational, and Proximity Mechanisms
Rivera, M. T., Soderstrom, S. B., & Uzzi, B. (2010) · Annual Review of Sociology · doi:10.1146/annurev.soc.34.040507.134743 · Cited by 939
Metadata
- Authors
- McPherson, J. M., & Ranger‐Moore, J.
- Venue
- Social Forces
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Published
- 1991-09-01
- Volume
- 70
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 19-19
- ISSN
- 0037-7732 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2147433013
- Cited by
- 250
- References
- 2
- FWCI
- 5.56
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review
How to cite
Cite CoChat for the checks on this page, and the paper for its own findings.
- This page
- CoChat. (2026). Citation check: Evolution on a Dancing Landscape: Organizations and Networks in Dynamic Blau Space. https://app.cochat.ai/papers/10.1093/sf/70.1.19
- The paper
- McPherson, J. M., & Ranger‐Moore, J. (1991). Evolution on a Dancing Landscape: Organizations and Networks in Dynamic Blau Space. Social Forces. https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/70.1.19
Data sources
Bibliographic data: Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex, Crossref.
Contains information from the Semantic Scholar Academic Graph Datasets, made available under the ODC Attribution License (ODC-BY 1.0).
Semantic Scholar’s data is described in: Kinney, R., et al. (2023). The Semantic Scholar Open Data Platform. arXiv:2301.10140.
