Organizational Ecology and Industrial Economics: A Comment on Geroski

David N Barron

Industrial and Corporate Change, 2001, vol. 10, issue 2, 541-48

Abstract: Geroski's discussion of organizational ecology from the point of view of an industrial economist is useful and illuminating. However, I believe that there are a few areas in which someone not familiar with the ecological literature might be misled. I therefore provide a slightly more detailed discussion of work done by ecologists in three key areas: the relationship between density, legitimacy, competition and the rates at which organizations enter and exit a population; the ways in which ecologists conceptualize and model legitimacy; and the theory of structural inertia. Copyright 2001 by Oxford University Press.

Date: 2001
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