Specialists, generalists, and polymorphs: Spatial advantages of multiunit organization in a single industry

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Usher, JM
• 署名单位: Memorial University Newfoundland
• 刊物名称: ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT REVIEW
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0363-7425
• DOI: 10.2307/259042
• 发表日期: 1999
• 页码: 143-150
• 关键词: POPULATION ECOLOGY; DENSITY DEPENDENCE; Brewing industry; EVOLUTION; FAILURE

摘要

I critique and extend niche width theory to provide an explanatory framework for the success of multiunit firms in single industries. A greater emphasis on spatial variation in organizational environments allows the fitness strategy of polymorphism to be developed more adequately and multiunit expressions of the specialist and generalist strategies to be added to the theory. I develop a set of testable propositions regarding the specific environmental conditions for the success of each strategy and consider research and managerial implications.