“…Organizations whose access to material and symbolic resources depends on evaluations by the same audience will adjust their structures and behavioural orientations to conform to the audience's expectations (ZUCKERMAN, 1999(ZUCKERMAN, , 2000. However,6 organizations that are more similar along relevant structural and behavioural dimensions might find it easier, rather than more difficult, to exchange resources and information (INGRAM and RAO, 2004;TRAPIDO, 2007). This principle of interorganizational attachment based on homophily has received considerable support from empirical studies of interorganizational relations (BAKER and FAULKNER, 1993;PODOLNY, 1994;POWELL et al, 2005;STUART, 1998).…”