Doctoral Dissertation Research in Sociology

最近，组织生态学家研究了 竞争与合法化的关系 失败率和失败率。 与此同时，经济学家 研究竞争力量如何塑造组织规模 分布。 这项研究将把这两个 通过确定规模是否能给组织 降低失败机会的竞争优势 增加它们的生长变化。 该研究还将 解决创始率和失败率的变化是否会导致 可供组织机构使用的资源水平的变化 增长 最后，拟议的研究调查如何 历史事件塑造了竞争的过程， 合法化 将使用曼哈顿银行的数据。

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.