Doctoral Dissertation Research in Sociology

最近，组织生态学家通过分析组织的创建率和失败率来研究竞争和合法化的力量。与此同时，经济学家研究了竞争力量如何影响组织规模分布。这项拟议的研究将通过确定规模是否给组织带来竞争优势，从而降低组织失败的机会并增加组织增长的变化，来整合这两个视角。这项研究还将探讨创建率和失败率的变化是否会导致可用于组织发展的资源水平发生变化。最后，这项拟议的研究调查了历史事件如何塑造竞争和合法化的过程。曼哈顿银行的数据将被使用。

Recently, organizational ecologists have studied the forces of competition and legitimation by analyzing organization's founding and failure rates. At the same time, economists have studied how forces of competition shape organizational size distributions. The proposed research will integrate these two perspectives by determining whether size gives organizations competitive advantages that decrease their chances of failure and increase their changes of growth. The study will also address whether changes in founding and failure rates cause changes in the level of resources available for organizational growth. Finally, the proposed research investigates how historical events have shaped processes of competition and legitimation. Data on banks in Manhattan will be used.