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| Author: | Burdos, A. |
| Title: | Analyzing unexpected density dependence effects on organizational births in New York's life insurance industry 1842-1904 |
| Journal: | Organization Science
1994 : NOV, VOL. 5:4, p. 541-553 |
| Index terms: | ENTREPRENEURSHIP LIFE INSURANCE ECOLOGY |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | This paper addresses and resolves a number of important conceptual and empirical problems with population ecology studies of organizations. Organizational ecologists argue that numbers of firms significantly affect industrial development. Rising numbers of firms are thought to legitimize a young industry, leading persons to launch new firms in the industry; but in a more crowded, older industry, increasing numbers of companies are expected to intensify competition, producing a decline in organizational births. The author identifies six reasons for the results challenging this argument. |
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