Resource partitioning and the evolution of specialist organizations: The role of location and identity in the US wine industry

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Swaminathan, A
• 署名单位: University of California System; University of California Davis
• 刊物名称: ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT JOURNAL
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0001-4273
• DOI: 10.5465/3069395
• 发表日期: 2001
• 页码: 1169-1185
• 关键词: dynamics; ecology; populations; dependence; ADVANTAGES; FAILURE; niches

摘要

Analyses of founding and mortality rates of specialist organizations in the U.S. wine industry over the period 1941-90 support Carroll's (1985) location-based resource-partitioning model-crowding of generalists in the market center creates opportunities for specialists. Further, specialists are adversely affected when they violate their organizational form's identity characteristics and also when generalists can assume a robust identity allowing them to operate in both specialist and generalist industry segments. The results suggest a prominent role for an organizational form's identity in resource partitioning.