Why does the number of organizations of any given kind vary over time? Utilizing a diverse
group of organizations including national labor unions, newspapers and newspaper …

The number of small specialty brewers in the US beer brewing industry has increased
dramatically in recent decades, even as the market for beer became increasingly dominated …

This paper examines how value is created in horizontal mergers and acquisitions. More
specifically, it examines the impact of post‐acquisition asset divestiture and resource …

This paper claims that density at time of founding has a persisting positive effect on
organizational mortality rates, net of the effects of contemporaneous density. High density at …

Theory suggests R&D intensity and acquisition activity may be either directly or inversely
related. However, we know relatively little about which firms are responsible for acquisition …

Unobserved heterogeneity in organizational frailty and population-level learning suggest a
particular relationship between environmental conditions at founding and organizational …

This article provides a broad-brush treatment of the empirical economics literature regarding
the effects of mergers and acquisitions. Much of the literature has direct or indirect …

The purpose of this article is to explore and examine the impressive growth of small and
micro-breweries registered in the UK and US from the early 1980s. While the majority of …

I evaluate two processes, niche formation and resource‐partitioning, that could
independently account for the entry of firms into new market segments in mature industries …

Building on past research in the economies‐of‐scale debate, we test for scale economies in
real estate investment trusts (REITs) by examining growth prospects, revenue and expense …