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RESOURCE PARTITIONING AND THE EVOLUTION OF SPECIALIST ORGANIZATIONS: THE ROLE OF LOCATION AND IDENTITY IN THE U.S. WINE INDUSTRY.

Academy of Management JournalPublished 1 December 2001Open access
Anand Swaminathan
Citations161
SJR quartileQ1
SJR score10.53
SNIP3.95
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Abstract

Analyses of founding and mortality rates of specialist organizations in the U.S. wine industry over the period 1941-90 support Carroll's (1985) location-based resource-partitioning model-crowding of generalists in the market center creates opportunities for specialists. Further, specialists are adversely affected when they violate their organizational form's identity characteristics and also when generalists can assume a robust identity allowing them to operate in both specialist and generalist industry segments. The results suggest a prominent role for an organizational form's identity in resource partitioning.

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Agricultural and Biological SciencesBusiness, Management and Accounting