This paper departs from the common practice of focusing on large, generalist organizations and shows that new organizational insights are obtined by adopting a broader, ecological perspective
2002
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- This paper departs from the common practice of focusing on large, generalist organizations and shows that new organizational insights are obtined by adopting a broader, ecological perspective
- The ecological focus shows that many small, specialized organizations operate successfully in this industry, despite apparently high levels of local concentration
- A resource-partitioning model is advanced to explain the interorganizational relationships between generalist and specialist organizations
- Statistical tests of the model using historical data on 2,808 American local newspaper organizations show the merit of using the ecological perspective for analyzing industries
- Florian Schloderer Audiences, Firms, and Networks: A Simulation Study of the Emergence of New Industries, SSRN Electronic Journal
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