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Toward A Network Perspective on Organizational Decline, International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy
Abstract
Analysis of organizational decline has become central to the study of economy and society. Further advances in this area may fail however, because two major literatures on the topic remain disintegrated and because both lack a sophisticated account of how social structure and interdependencies among organizations affect decline. This paper develops a perspective which tries to overcome these problems. The perspective explains decline through an understanding of how social ties and resource dependencies among firms affect market structure and the resulting behavior of firms within it. Evidence is furnished that supports the assumptions of the perspective and provides a basis for specifying propositions about the effect of network structure on organizational survival. The perspective's implications for organizational theory and economic sociology are discussed..
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Date Published
1997
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Uzzi, Brian. 1997. Toward A Network Perspective on Organizational Decline. International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy. 17(7-8): 111-155.