Doctoral Dissertation Research in Sociology

在过去的十年里，人们对应用 从生物学到社会研究的进化和生态思想 organization. 这种工作被称为组织生态学，重点是 组织的出生、增长和死亡的决定因素。 这 研究旨在解释企业人口的变化 在过去的三个世纪里，美国的酿酒业。 发现， 公司的合并和解散将从两个方面进行审查， 酿造公司群体内部的动态（例如，竞争 公司之间）和行业外部的环境因素（例如， 经济周期）。 将特别注意规模的影响 关于“新事物的责任”，新公司经营的障碍， 下。 分析将在城市、州和 全国各级。 这项研究将有助于我们了解 长期结构性变化的本质 人口

In the last decade there has been a growing interest in applying evolutionary and ecological ideas from biology to the study of social organization. Such work, known as organizational ecology, focuses on the determinants of births growth, and deaths of organizations. This study is designed to explain the changes in the population of firms in the U.S. brewing industry over the past three centuries. The foundings, mergers, and disbandments of firms will be examined in terms of both the dynamics internal to the population of brewing firms (e.g., competition among firms) and environmental factors external to the industry (e.g., economic cycles). Special attention will be paid to the effects of size on the "liability of newness," the handicap that new firms operate under. The analysis will be carried out at the city, state, and nation-wide levels. This research will contribute to our understanding of the nature of long-term structural change in an organizational population.