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

这是对保加利亚500家制造企业的研究， 他们国有和100个新的私营公司，将审查 四年内与成功和失败相关的因素 跨度。 第一波纵向调查的数据显示， 已经收集，后续的波将添加来自 调查和官方来源。 这项研究将测试社会学 组织生态学理论预测成功的 企业是由企业的年龄，规模， 结构惯性，人口密度动态，环境 印记，生态位宽度，和r对K策略。 这项研究将 我也运用新古典经济学和一些 竞争性的经济手段。 这项研究利用了一个独特的机会来研究一个 一个正在努力摆脱极权政府的社会 和需求经济来发展自由市场制度。 主要的科学目标是测试的一般理论， 快速增长环境下企业的成败 社会的变化，但这项研究也将产生大量的数据 这一基础对许多经济学家和社会学家都很有用 in research研究projects项目of many许多kinds种类.

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.