By taking China’s beer industry as an example, this paper establishes a series of industrial competition–pressure networks and examines the correlation between competition structure and merger actions. We present a cascade dynamic-merger agent-based computational model driven by competition...

Purpose – Technology-based new ventures (TNVs) – which rely on entrepreneurial activities based on science and technology applications in newly created organizations to be successful – are important to current economic growth and innovation. Past research has looked at the importance of...

This paper argues that important lessons about the theory and method of organizational classification may be learned from biological systematics, defined as the "science of differences." Three main components of systematics studies are discussed: (1) taxonomy, the development of a concept of...

Practicing managers live in a world of ‘extremes’ but management research is based on Gaussian statistics that rule out those extremes. On occasion, deviation amplifying mutual causal processes among interdependent data points cause extreme events characterized by power laws. They...