Advanced bibliometric methods to model the relationship between entry behavior and networking in emerging technological communities
✍ Scribed by Debackere, Koenraad ;Clarysse, Bart
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1998
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 105 KB
- Volume
- 49
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0002-8231
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✦ Synopsis
Organizational ecology and social network theory are ronmental force, inducing a negative relationship between used to explain entries in technological communities.
density and founding rates, everything else being equal
Using bibliometric data on 411 organizations in the field (Hannan & Carroll, 1992, p. 95). Given a set of environof plant biotechnology, we test several hypotheses that mental conditions that sets a carrying capacity [i.e., the entry is not only influenced by the density of the field, maximum number of organizations in a certain population but also by the structure of the R&D network within the community. The empirical findings point to the use-that can thrive on the limited resources available (Hanfulness of bibliometric data in mapping change and evo- nan & Freeman, 1989, pp. 123-129)], the more abundant lution in technological communities, as well as to the the number of competitors, the fiercer the competition effects of networking on entry behavior.