General Organizational Classification: An Empirical Test Using the United States and Japanese Electronics Industries

Dave Ulrich and Bill McKelvey
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Dave Ulrich: Graduate School of Business Administration, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109
Bill McKelvey: Graduate School of Management, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90024

Organization Science, 1990, vol. 1, issue 1, 99-118

Abstract: This study empirically tests the existence of populations. It reports a general organizational classification for both the United States and Japanese electronics industries. It tests for and identifies populations within a family of electronics industries and demonstrates the relevance of a general organizational classification for explaining how different natural selection processes affect different populations. Data include 669 US and 144 Japanese electronic firms. The results suggest that classification should play a more central role in development of organizational science.

Keywords: organization classification; intra-industry populations; natural selection (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1990
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