This paper attempts to evaluate the extent to which rivalry between the different financial intermediaries that operate in the Spanish banking system has been influenced by the recent liberalization process. Our theoretical model is borrowed from population ecology and allows us to take into...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to highlight the dilemma of exponential growth in economic policy and its implications on sustainable development. Design/methodology/approach – The future of the world economy is premised in part on the assumption of an implicit law of increasing...

Empirical research in organizational ecology has mainly focused on analyzing founding and mortality rates using life history data of the organizations. We try to extend this approach in our study in a number of ways. In contrast to most empirical studies in organizational ecology, we chose a...

The literature on organizational niche suggests that competition between firms that have overlapping niches tends to elevate exit risks. Thus, firms tend to enter markets that are relatively uncrowded in order to minimize direct competition with other firms. Although this research has focused on...

In this paper, it is argued that the espousal of biological analogies by evolutionary economists cannot reveal the most important features of evolutionary change in economic processes. Analogies are used to best effect in the preliminary stages of research and in their normal linguistic role as...

Die Arbeit untersucht die Entwicklung der Museumsgr?ndungen in Deutschland im Zeitraum von 1800 bis 2005 in Abh?ngigkeit von der Dichte der Museumspopulation, sowie in Abh?ngigkeit von vier Wirtschaftsfaktoren (Industrialisierung, Internationalisierung, Verst?dterung und Verstaatlichung). Die...