Institutional Embeddedness and the Dynamics of Organizational Populations
- 1 August 1992
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in American Sociological Review
- Vol. 57 (4) , 540-559
- https://doi.org/10.2307/2096100
Abstract
Population density - the number of organizations of a particular type - has been used to study the effects of legitimation and competition on rates of organizational founding and failure. We investigate the influence of population density and relational density - the number of ties between organizations and their institutional environment - on founding and failure rates in a population of day care centers. Findings suggest that embeddedness in the institutional environment underlies the legitimating effects of initial population growth and the improved survival capabilities of a population of organizations in the long run.This publication has 12 references indexed in Scilit:
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