Organizational ecology aims to explain how social, economic and political conditions affect
the relative abundance and diversity of organizations and to account for their changing …

In this paper, we move beyond the typical focus on the role of individuals in leading social
change to examine “collective social entrepreneurship”, the role multiple actors …

'This ambitious book draws upon a wide variety of literature in developing a comprehensive
theory of entrepreneurship, ranging from the discovery of entrepreneurial activities, to …

This new edition of the successful textbook Organization Theories discusses various
approaches to theory formation in organization research, offers a critical presentation of the …

This paper combines organizational ecology and neoinstitutional theory to explain the
process of diversification, specifically, how the structure of markets affects rates of market …

This study examines the impact of localized competition on rates of failure in the Manhattan
hotel industry from 1898 to 1990. The study investigates whether the organizations in a …

One vision of organizational evolution suggests that old and large organizations become
increasingly dominant over their environment. A second suggests that as organizations age …

In this paper, we examine two distinct perspectives that explain entrepreneurs' choice of
product and geographic location, which determine demand for the output of a start-up and …

We propose that competitive success and failure evolve through an ecology of
organizational learning. An organization facing competition is likely to engage in a search …

We situate the Special Research Forum on Organizational Ecology in the program of
ecological research on organizations. We begin with a broad description of organizational …