The Interorganizational Network as a Resource: A Comparative Case Study on Organizational Genesis

Socio-cultural factors and entrepreneurial activity

“…In particular, the important role of norms and traditions has been demonstrated, which, although they generally do not inhibit entrepreneurship, can do so. From an anthropology perspective, attention to social and cultural factors related to the creation of a new business has provided interesting contributions to the understanding of entrepreneurship, especially through the study of social constraints (Garlick, 1971;Kennedy, 1988;Wiewel and Hunter, 1985) and collective approaches (e.g. family business, community-centred business, ethnic or organizational entrepreneurship) to business formation and growth (Benedict, 1968;Davis and Ward, 1990;Kleinberg, 1983;Parker, 1988, among others).…”

Alliance partners and firm performance: resource complementarity and status association

“…Organizations, by aligning with their environments, win support from their communities, customers, competitors, and stakeholders as well. With reduced environmental threats, such legitimacy is crucial to unleashing external resource flows, especially for those firms in poor neighborhoods (Wiewel and Hunter, 1985). Reputation and legitimacy thus can generate a continuous flow of resource supply on which firms' sustained competitive advantage is based.…”

Beyond the Liability of Newness: Nonprofit Organizations in an Emerging Policy Domain

“…Some studies have combined or compared these two theoretical perspectives to explain organizational growth and decline (Hager & Galaskiewicz, 2000;Singh, Tucker, & House, 1986). Social histories of nonprofit organizations also provide important information on new organizations like community development organizations and organizations serving adults and children with disabilities (Katz, 1970;Stone, 1996;Wiewel & Hunter, 1985;Young, 1987).…”