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Alcohol and Suicide--Durkheim Revisited
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In this article, the ecological model of density dependent organizational evolution is tested using data on the 7,709 breweries operating in the American market, covering the longest time period studied to date, these data allow for examination of three important issues that critics of the model have raised: applicability to commercial business organizations; plausibility of alternative interpretations involving size and mass; and measurement of legitimation.Abstract:
The ecological model of density dependent organizational evolution is tested using data on the 7,709 breweries operating in the American market Besides covering the longest time period studied to date, these data allow for examination of three important issues that critics of the model have raised: (1) applicability to commercial business organizations; (2) plausibility of alternative interpretations involving size and mass; and (3) measurement of legitimation Estimates of stochastic rates of organizational founding and mortality show that, while there is merit in some of the criticisms, both rates are nonetheless non-monotonically related to organizational density in ways predicted by the model In most instances, these relationships persist when the rate functions are specified with different socio-economic control variables The strong support found for the model helps reconcile some previously reported negative evidenceread more
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