As deregulation of the electricity industry continues to gain momentum around the world, electricity companies face unprecedented challenges. Competitive complexity and intensity will increase substantially as deregulated companies find themselves competing in new industries, with new rules,...

An extensive empirical literature has demonstrated the existence of density-dependent selection in organizational vital rates. This research has also shown that historical trajectories followed by organizational populations only partly conform to the predictions of the original model....

Theoretical accounts of network ties between organizations emphasize the interdependence of individual intentions, opportunities, and actions embedded in local configurations of network ties. These accounts are at odds with empirical models based on assumptions of independence between network...

Available ecological models of organizations do not provide satisfactory explanation for population extinction. In this article, we search for a minimal set of assumptions needed to expand the range of dynamic behaviors of the ecological model of density dependence to admit extinction while...

We combine theory and empirical evidence to develop and test three related claims about how ties strength and structural equivalence affect interorganizational performance similarity. First, network partners attain similar levels of performance because direct network ties facilitate information...