Olav Sorenson<\/strong><\/p>\n

Is starting a new business more dif\ufb01cult in an emerging industry or in a mature industry? The density dependent model of organizational ecology maintains that the industry\u2019s age is irrelevant; the number of \ufb01rms currently occupying the market niche determines the industry\u2019s competitive structure. Nevertheless, population-level learning predicts historical asymmetry in entry barriers. Over time, the average \ufb01tness of the surviving population members increases, making market entry more dif\ufb01cult. At the same time, surviving organizations become increasingly spread out across the resource space, providing niches that new \ufb01rms can exploit. Thus, industry-level evolution systematically alters the environment that both existing organizations and new \ufb01rms face. I offer a new speci\ufb01cation for the founding rate model that synthesizes ecological and evolutionary perspectives. Tests of this model in the American automobile industry support its merit.<\/p>\n

Social Science Research<\/a><\/em>, 29 (2000): 307-326<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Olav Sorenson Is starting a new business more dif\ufb01cult in an emerging industry or in a mature industry? The density dependent model of organizational ecology maintains that the industry\u2019s age is irrelevant; the number of \ufb01rms currently occupying the market niche determines the industry\u2019s competitive structure. Nevertheless, population-level learning predicts historical asymmetry in entry barriers. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[18,53,21,22,23],"class_list":["post-17","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-6","tag-automobile-industry","tag-corporate-demography","tag-density-dependence","tag-learning","tag-selection"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.olavsorenson.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.olavsorenson.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.olavsorenson.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.olavsorenson.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.olavsorenson.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.olavsorenson.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99,"href":"https:\/\/www.olavsorenson.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions\/99"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.olavsorenson.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.olavsorenson.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.olavsorenson.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}