Organizational Dynamics of Creative Destruction: Entrepreneurship and the Emergence of Industries

216 Pages·2002·0.797 MB·English

by  Stephen W. Mezias, Elizabeth Boyle (auth.)

Organizational
Dynamics of Creative
Destruction
Stephen W. Mezias and Elizabeth Boyle
Organizational Dynamics of Creative Destruction
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Organizational Dynamics
of Creative Destruction
Entrepreneurship and the Emergence of
Industries
Stephen W. Mezias and Elizabeth Boyle
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Contents
List of Tables vii
List of Figures viii
Acknowledgements ix
1 Introduction 1
Part I Ecologies of Learning and Intrapreneurship 15
2 The Three Faces of Corporate Renewal: Institution,
Revolution and Evolution 17
Reprint of Mezias and Glynn, 1993
3 Mimetic Learning and the Evolution of Organizational
Populations 53
Reprint of Mezias and Lant, 1994
Part II The Evolutionary Dynamics of New Industry
Creation 81
4 Resource Partitionng, the Founding of Specialist Firms and
Innovation: the American Feature Film Industry, 1912–1929 83
Reprint of Mezias and Mexias, 2000
5 The Community Dynamics of Entrepreneurship: the Birth
of the American Film Industry, 1895–1929 111
Reprint of Mezias and Kuperman, 2001
Part III The Role of Institutions in New Industry
Emergence 143
6 Legal Environments and the Population Dynamics of
Entrepreneurship: Litigation and Foundings in the Early
American Film Industry, 1897–1918 145
7 Industry Creation, Legitimacy and Foundings: the Case of
the American Film Industry, 1896–1928 159
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Part IV Conclusion 187
8 Organizational Dynamics of Creative Destruction:
Entrepreneurship and the Emergence of New Industries 189
Notes 195
Bibliography 197
Index 211
List of Tables
1.1 Refereed journals publishing articles related to entrepreneurship
2.1 How resources devoted to search are changed in response to
experience
3.1 The effects of organizational and environmental characteristics
on the proportion of mimetic firms in a population
3.2 The effects of organizational and environmental characteristics
on the proportion of mimetic firms in a population
4.1 Descriptive statistics
4.2 Correlation matrix
4.3 Regression results for specialist foundings
4.4 New genre production and distribution by generalists and
specialists
4.5 Specialist poportions in genre amd population
5.1 Key innovations in the emergence of the film industry
5.2 Four categories of entrepreneurial behavior
7.1 The coding of cognitive legitimacy and sample headlines
7.2 The coding of sociopolitical legitimacy and sample headlines
7.3 Coding of the effect of headlines on cognitive legitimacy
7.4 Coding of the effect of headlines on sociopolitical legitimacy
7.5 Distribution of New York Timesarticles
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List of Figures
1.1 Number of articles taking a supply and/or demand perspective
2.1 Flow chart of search decisions
2.2 Flow chart for determining performance
2.3 Flow chart for determination of change
2.4 Mean total innovative changes in the four conditions
2.5 Mean refinements to current technology in the four conditions
2.6 Mean resources in the four conditions
2.7 The learning curve assuming no innovation and a maximum of
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3.1 Mean proportion of surviving firms of each type as a function of
time
3.2 Effect of the probability of environmental change on the mean
proportion of mimetic firms
3.3 Effect of the magnitude of environmental change on the mean
proportion of mimetic firms
4.1 Proportion of films produced and distributed by generalist firms
7.1 Cumulative headline count
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Acknowledgements
The authors are grateful to the American Film Institute and to
ICP/Proquest for expediting their work immeasurably by making avail-
able the American Film Institute’s Catalog of Films Produced in the
United States in CD-ROM form. They would also like to thank their col-
leagues for their helpful insights and support. The research assistance
of Michael Barnett, Mikelle Calhoun, Alan Eisner, Jerry Kuperman, and
John Mezias is acknowledged.
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