The organizers' ecology: An empirical study of foreign banks in Shanghai

Organization Science

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 385-401

  Kuilman, Jeroen ^a   Li, Jiatao ^b  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Identity; Mimetic entry; Organizational ecology; Organizational founding; Pre entry stages

Indexed keywords

EID: 33744824084     PISSN: 10477039     EISSN: 15265455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/orsc.1060.0182     Document Type: Article

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