Organizational Ecology as a Theory of Competition

The Institutions of the Market: Organizations, Social Systems, and Governance

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Beck, Nikolaus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LUGANO   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Amos hawley; Density dependence; Emile durkheim; Evolution; Market formation; Organizational ecology theory; Resource partitioning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920752180     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199231423.003.0010     Document Type: Chapter

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