Localized Competition and Organizational Failure in the Manhattan Hotel Industry, 1898-1990

When is more better? The impact of business scale and scope on long‐term business survival, while controlling for profitability

“…Instead, most survival analyses have focused on the impact of size, using various measures of size including sales, assets, capacity, and employment, consistently finding that larger firms and businesses are less likely to exit. These studies include Star and Massel (1981), Small Business Administration (1983), Aldrich and Auster (1986), Evans (1987), Barnett (1990), Delacroix and Swaminathan (1991), Baum and Oliver (1991), Baum and Mezias (1992), Carroll and Swaminathan (1992), Barron, West, andHannan (1994), andMitchell (1994). Although many of these studies pool dissolutions and acquisitions as forms of exit, which creates some ambiguity in interpreting the results, the basic size-survival relationship appears to be robust at both the corporate and business level.…”

Tourism agglomeration and its impact on social welfare: An empirical approach to the Spanish case

“…Several academic studies have already addressed the role of agglomeration in the evolution of the tourism industry, and in particular, the lodging industry-see for example Baum and Mezias (1992), Baum and Haveman (1997), and Ingram and Baum (1997) for the case of the Manhattan hotel industry; and Chung and Kalnins ' (2001, 2004) studies of the Texas lodging industry, first in rural areas and then over the entire state. Chung and Kalnins (2004) also provide a literature review of prior agglomeration research, with special emphasis on the retail and service sectors.…”

Corporations, Classes, and Social Movements After Managerialism

“…geographically bounded areas with a stable base of consumers, such as day care centers or hotels in a metropolitan area), ecological models apply fairly well (e.g. Baum & Mezias, 1992). But finding those (increasingly rare) contexts where the model applies is like looking for one's lost keys under the streetlight.…”