Abstract
This chapter examines how the structure of the competitive environment influces variation through organizational change. Change is defined as shifts in organizational domain and operationalized as product-market diversification. The environmental forces studied are market density (the number of organizations in a market) and mass (the total size of these organizations).
Full Citation
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“The Ecological Dynamics of Organizational Change: Density and Mass Dependence in Rates of Entry into New Markets.”
In The Evolutionary Dynamics of Organizations,
edited by Joel A. C. Baum and Jitendra V. Singh,
New York:
Oxford University Press,
1994.