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 …

This article applies the convergent insights of institutional and resource dependence
perspectives to the prediction of strategic responses to institutional processes. The article …

This article addresses how individuals make sense of their organization's response to a
nontraditional and emotional strategic issue. The reported research also concerned …

This study provides an empirical test of Hannan and Freeman's theory of structural inertia.
We examined the changes organizations undertook in response to a major environmental …

Multinational enterprises (MNEs) serve as catalysts for reconceptualizing organization-
environment relations because they operate simultaneously in multiple nations. We argue …

Many social relationships face a liability of adolescence; the hazard rate of the relationship
ending increases for an initial period and then declines. The pervasiveness of this …

This article presents a model of the context of interorganizational collaboration. The model is
made up of driving and restraining forces from both the competitive and institutional sectors …

A fundamental premise of resource dependence theory is that organizations tend to avoid
interorganizational relations which com-promise their autonomy. This study examined the …

The global expansion of the European state system suggests strong connections between
political “life chances” and international status. Polities recognized as sovereign within the …

In this study of California wineries observed between 1940 and 1984, we showed that
organizations within a population may escape competitive pressures through differentiation …