Many legalized markets bear categorical stigma—a vilifying label attached to an industry
and its participants—that threatens their performance and survival chances. This happens …

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 …

This study investigates the power of a community namesake, defined as an organization
named after the geographic community, in discouraging potential entrants from entering the …

Research question/issue Innovation has been a constant feature of the tales of transition
and transformation. State ownership as the engine of innovation and technological change …

How do customers discover new products? Recent research has found that a firm can
facilitate the discovery and subsequent purchase of its product by giving it an advantageous …

Although we know that product names influence audience evaluations of producers and
their offerings, mechanisms behind the effect remain undertheorized. We propose that a …

In the last decades a new organizational population of private museums has seen
substantial proliferation. While multiple hypotheses for the spread of this new form have …

This study compares the need of the communities, the availability of financial resources for
the organizations, and the density of existing organizations on NGOs' and NFCs' founding …

This article investigates the rationales for the successful economic transition in a transition
country through the lens of organizational ecology theory and institutional theory. Initially …

Policies constraining nonprofit and civil society activity have been documented in multiple
countries. A less widespread phenomenon, but one that is also worth exploring, is the …