RUI: Collaborative Research: Organizational Adaption and Survival During Reform: A Panel Study of Bulgarian Enterprises

这是一项对保加利亚制造企业的研究，其中500家是国有企业，100家是新成立的私营企业，将在四年的时间跨度内考察与成败相关的因素。这一纵向调查的第一波数据已经收集完毕，随后的几波将添加来自调查和官方来源的数据。这项研究将检验组织生态学的社会学理论，这些理论预测企业的成功取决于企业的年龄、企业的规模、结构惯性、人口密度的动态、环境印记、生态位宽度和r-vs.-k策略。这项研究还将运用新古典主义经济学和几种相互竞争的经济学方法的理论。这项研究利用了一个独特的机会来审视一个正在努力摆脱极权政府和需求经济以发展自由市场制度的社会。这项研究的主要科学目标是检验企业在快速社会变革环境中成败的一般理论，但这项研究也将产生大量的数据库，对许多经济学家和社会学家在各种研究项目中都有很大的帮助。

This is a study of manufacturing enterprises in Bulgaria, 500 of them state owned and 100 new private companies, that will examine factors associated with success and failure over a four-year time span. Data from the first wave of this longitudinal survey have already been collected, and subsequent waves will add data from surveys and official sources. This study will test sociological theories of organization ecology that predict success of enterprises is shaped by the age of the enterprise, its size, structural inertia, dynamics of population density, environmental imprinting, niche width, and r-versus-K strategies. The study will also apply theories from neoclassical economics and from several competing economic approaches. This study capitalizes upon a unique opportunity to examine a society that is struggling to escape from totalitarian government and a demand economy to develop the institutions of a free market. The chief scientific goal is to test general theories of the success and failure of enterprises in an environment of rapid social change, but the study will also generate a substantial data base that will be of great use to many economists and sociologists in research projects of many kinds.