Exploring the Niche Overlaps between Organizational Ecology and Industrial EconomicsIndustrial and Corporate Change, 2001, vol. 10, issue 2, pages 507-40 Abstract: The goal of this essay is to bring the work of organizational ecologists on population dynamics to the attention of economists and to try to engineer an exchange of ideas between the two subjects. Following a relatively brief exposition of the basic arguments made by organizational ecologists, we explore a number of areas where cross-fertilization between organizational ecology and industrial economics seems promising. These include: examining the limits of competitive exclusion; exploring how models that focus on selection between firms might apply to selection between products; linking models of population dynamics to models which explain changes in market structures over time; understanding the sources of structural inertia which limit the ability of firms to react to market events. We conclude by making a few observations on what each group of scholars might learn from the other. Copyright 2001 by Oxford University Press. Date: 2001 There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it. Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: http://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:oup:indcch:v:10:y:2001:i:2:p:507-40 Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from Access Statistics for this article Industrial and Corporate Change is edited by David Teece, Glenn R. Carroll, Nick Von Tunzelmann, Giovanni Dosi and Franco Malerba More articles in Industrial and Corporate Change from Oxford University Press |
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