Dynamics of organizational viability : new perspectives and evidence from China

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The goal of this thesis is to theoretically explore issues in organizational ecology by searching for cross-pollination with other (sub)disciplines, and to empirically probe into industries in the Chinese transition economy. It focuses on the impact of shifts in environments on the viability of two distinguished organizational forms: the dominant "generalist", occupying the market center and being legitimated by the mainstream institutional environment, and the subordinate "specialist", operating in the market's peripheries and being constrained by institutional hurdles. It develops propositions bases on two sets of arguments. First, environmental and institutional changes affect organizational vital rates by constraining or releasing organizational competitiveness or changing competitive behavior. Second, direct competition is an important driver of ecological processes, complementary to diffuse competition as central in organizational ecology, accounting for much variance in organizational viability. Theoretical and empirical findings demonstrate that the dynamics of organizational viability relates with a series of features of organizations and their environments, i.e., resource space, scale advantage, institutional hardship, market concentration, and organizational characteristics.

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