TY - UNPB
T1 - Why do organizational populations die?
T2 - evidence from the Belgian motorcycle industry, 1900-1993
AU - Wezel, Filippo Carlo
N1 - Relation: http://som.rug.nl/
date_submitted:2002
Rights: Graduate School/Research Institute, Systems, Organisations and Management (SOM)
PY - 2002
Y1 - 2002
N2 - Extinctions represent a potential outcome of the evolutionary processes of organizational
populations. Nevertheless, scant effort, if none, has been dedicated to investigate this issue.
This paper proposes three alternative hypotheses that may account for extinction events. They
are drawn from very different literatures: economic geography, economic sociology, and
evolutionary biology/paleontology. In particular, two of them rely on exogenous determinants,
while one is focused on an endogenous reasoning. The theory presented is tested analyzing the
entries of motorcycle producers in Belgium, a population that ceased to exist in 1981. The
findings of this research provide evidence to support the internal causation of the event. The
implications stemming from the present work are related to the literatures of population
ecology and industrial economics.
AB - Extinctions represent a potential outcome of the evolutionary processes of organizational
populations. Nevertheless, scant effort, if none, has been dedicated to investigate this issue.
This paper proposes three alternative hypotheses that may account for extinction events. They
are drawn from very different literatures: economic geography, economic sociology, and
evolutionary biology/paleontology. In particular, two of them rely on exogenous determinants,
while one is focused on an endogenous reasoning. The theory presented is tested analyzing the
entries of motorcycle producers in Belgium, a population that ceased to exist in 1981. The
findings of this research provide evidence to support the internal causation of the event. The
implications stemming from the present work are related to the literatures of population
ecology and industrial economics.
M3 - Working paper
BT - Why do organizational populations die?
PB - s.n.
ER -