Untitled Document Olga Khessina Ph. D. Candidate, Department of Sociology Columbia University 413 Fayerweather Hall 1180 Amsterdam Ave. I am specialized in Sociology of Organizations and Organization Studies. I am also interested in Contemporary Sociological Theory. The issue that I am working on right now is organizational mortality.
Organizational mortality is a traditional domain of populational ecology.
I take as a base of my work the density dependence model of organizational deaths offered by ecologists. I play with this model trying to give the fuller explanations of the organizational deaths dynamics by combining different approaches.