caa a22 4500 397524714 CHVBK 20180308164641.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161202e199505 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1093/oxfordjournals.esr.a036350 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)oxford-10.1093/oxfordjournals.esr.a036350 LOMI ALESSANDRO London Business School, Xenter for Organisational Research, Regen't park, Susex Place, London NWI 4SA, UK. The Population and Community Ecology of Organizational Founding: Italian Co-operative Banks, 1936-1989 [Elektronische Daten] [ALESSANDRO LOMI] Ecological models of organizational founding are proposed in order to investigate the effect of competitive and institutional processes on the founding rates in two populations of co-operative banks in Italy for the period 1936-1989. A number of stochastic specifications of organizational founding rates are estimated to test the effects of density dependence, resource partitioning and community interdependence on the vital dynamics of the organizational populations under study. Processes of density dependence and resource partitioning are shown to have a different impact on the founding rate of generalist and specialist organizations. The empirical analysis reveals the existence of community-level patterns of asymmetric mutualism between the two populations of banking organizations. While the proliferation of Rural Cooperative banks accelerated the founding rate of Popular Co-operative banks, the founding rate of Rural Co-operative banks was unaffected by the number of Popular Co-operative banks in existence. The results generally support the view that institutional constraints encoded in organizational forms shape the vital dynamics of organizational populations over long time periods. © Oxford University Press Articles nationallicence European Sociological Review Oxford University Press 11/1(1995-05), 75-98 0266-7215 11:1<75 1995 11 eursoj https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.esr.a036350 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.esr.a036350 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- LOMI ALESSANDRO London Business School, Xenter for Organisational Research, Regen't park, Susex Place, London NWI 4SA, UK NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- European Sociological Review Oxford University Press 11/1(1995-05), 75-98 0266-7215 11:1<75 1995 11 eursoj Metadata rights reserved CC BY-NC-4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-oxford