The literature on evolution of organizational forms has remained largely silent on where the
first organizational instance of a new form comes from, treating it as either a given or an …

Combining insights from organizational ecology and social network theory, we examine how
the structure of relations among organizational populations affects differences in rates of …

Rather quietly over the last decade, a large body of literature has emerged to consider how
new forms of organization arise and become established in the organizational community …

In this study, we demonstrate how the ecological and institutional characteristics of
organizational niches affect the likelihood of organizational foundings. We describe and …

We draw on complexity theory to explain the emergence of a new organizational collective,
and we provide a much-needed empirical test of the theory at the collective level of analysis …

This paper presents a theory of how new organizational forms penetrate local populations.
We theorize that founders with pre-founding industry experience in non-local populations …

Although organizational births now attract considerable scholarly attention, virtually no effort
has been made to distinguish conceptually among different kinds of births and to explore the …

In this study, the authors provide an assessment of the ecological theory of organizational
form emergence and focus on the positive density effect associated with legitimation. The …

A growing body of literature suggests that populations of organizations are not
homogeneous, but instead comprise distinct subentities. Firms are highly dependent on their …

In this paper we argue that patterns of organizational niche overlap and nonoverlap
influence the organizational niches in which entrepreneurs create organizations …