ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS AT FOUNDING AND ORGANIZATIONAL MORTALITY: A TRIAL-BY-FIRE MODEL.
Academy of Management JournalPublished 1 October 1996
Anand Swaminathan
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Unobserved heterogeneity in organizational frailty and population- level learning suggest a particular relationship between environmental conditions at founding and organizational mortality. Organi...
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