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| Author: | Ranger-Moore, J. |
| Title: | Bigger may be better, but is older wiser? Organizational age and size in the New York life insurance industry |
| Journal: | American Sociological Review
1997 : DEC, VOL. 62:6, p. 903-920 |
| Index terms: | ORGANIZATION INSURANCE INDUSTRIES |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | The author explores the effects of organizational size and age on failure rates among New York life insurance companies between 1813 and 1985. Theorists tend to agree that organizational growth and aging processes increase organizational inertia, but they disagree on the effect of that inertia on failure rates. The author finds that organizational size affects failure rates nonmonotonically, but over the actual range of sizes, large size almost always lowers failure rates. |
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