Organizational Ecology

Michael T. Hannan

John Freeman

    Hannan and Freeman examine the ecology of organizations by exploring the competition for resources and by trying to account for rates of entry and exit and for the diversity of organizational forms. They show that the destinies of organizations are determined more by impersonal forces than by the intervention of individuals.

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Michael T. Hannan is Professor of Sociology, Stanford University.

John Freeman is Professor, Graduate School of Management, Cornell University.