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Industries as Organizational Fields: Infrastructure and Formative Dynamics in U.S. Online Database Services

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  • Marc Ventresca
  • Rodney Lacey
  • Michael Lounsbury
  • Dara Szyliowicz

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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‹resources, state activity, and industry ³talk²‹ in shaping the early industry. These results contribute to reconsideration of debates about the forms of industrial policy and the importance of institutional infrastructures for economic activity. .

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  • Marc Ventresca & Rodney Lacey & Michael Lounsbury & Dara Szyliowicz, "undated". "Industries as Organizational Fields: Infrastructure and Formative Dynamics in U.S. Online Database Services," IPR working papers 98-11, Institute for Policy Resarch at Northwestern University.
    • Handle: RePEc:wop:nwuipr:98-11
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