Die siebte, überarbeitete Auflage des renommierten Lehrbuches führt in das gesamte
Spektrum des Strategischen Managements ein. Nach einem Überblick über theoretische …

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 …

Most analysts of corporations and industries adopt the focal perspective of a single
prototypical organization. Many analysts also study corporations primarily in terms of their …

We investigate how competing logics facilitate resistance to institutional change, focusing on
banking professionals' resistance to large, national banks' acquisitions of smaller, local …

In recent years, there has been an increasing emphasis within organizational ecology on
identity as a fundamental basis for the conceptualization and identification of organizational …

We use the expressions “Big 4” and “non-Big 4”, commonly used in the audit literature, to
respectively designate the major audit firms whose brand-name are internationally …

Sociologists frequently invoke the concept of form when analyzing organizations, collective
action, art, music, culture and other phenomena. Nonetheless, the form concept has not …

This article examines the effects of crowding in a market center on rates of change in
organizational niche width and on organizational mortality. It proposes that, although firms …

This essay introduces the basic methodology of organizational ecology and sketches some
key insights arising from that work. For example, the paper will consider the extent of …

This paper examines the competitive consequences of interfirm mobility. Because the loss of
key members (defined as top decision makers) to competing firms may amount to a …