Industries
as Organizational Fields: Infrastructure and
Formative Dynamics in U.S. Online Database Services
Marc
Ventresca, Rodney Lacey, Michael Lounsbury, and Dara Szyliowicz
Abstract
This paper develops organizational field approaches
to understand industry evolution. We address issues of how state
activities, collective action, and institutional entrepreneurship
shape competitive space and facilitate industry formation in the
online database services industry. We test arguments drawn from
industrial economics, organizational ecology, and institutional
theories of organization using data on online producer entries for
1972-1991, with attention to variation in entry dynamics between
commercial and public sector entrants. Results support the role
of infrastructures
Marc Ventresca, Department
of Organization Behavior, Kellogg Graduate School of Management,
Northwestern University
Rodney Lacey, Department of Organization Behavior,
Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University
Michael Lounsbury, Department of Organization
Behavior, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University
Dara Szyliowicz, International Management and
Entrepreneurship, Texas Tech University
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