Organizational Form, Population Dynamics, and Institutional Changes: The Founding Patterns of Voluntary Organizations.

Uncovering the influence of social venture creation on commercial venture creation: A population ecology perspective

“…Most studies have investigated the influence of such contextual factors on founding rates of specific populations. However, changes in the nature of those external or institutional factors can influence not only foundings within populations, but can also alter the ecological dynamics among populations (Tucker et al, 1990). Consistent with these arguments, we propose that the hypothesized influence of social venture creation on commercial venture creation will differ based on the type of environment in which the two populations coexist.…”

“…Still, a significant negative relationship between our two broadly defined populations was found. In addition, we add robustness to the previous finding that environmental conditions (what ecologists call institutional processes) influence ecological dynamics within and between populations (Tucker et al, 1990) by including a richer operationalization of environmental variables that vary across time. Such a test for robustness was called for in the literature (Hannan and Freeman, 1987).…”

“…Population ecology is particularly relevant in entrepreneurship research, which has long been concerned with the creation of new ventures as evidence of successful entrepreneurship (Baum and Singh, 1994;Tucker et al, 1990). This perspective "seeks to understand how environmental conditions and interactions within and between populations shape the diversity of organizations in society" (Hannan and Freeman, 1987, 912).…”

“…The authors further considered for-profit and nonprofit daycare centers as two distinct populations since their legal form would cause these organizations to behave differently. Similarly, other studies have examined the ecological dynamics of organizational populations such as industrial and craft labor unions (Hannan and Freeman, 1987), voluntary organizations (Tucker et al, 1990), and instruments manufacturers (Audia et al, 2006).…”

“…Tucker et al (1990) argued that the effect of some institutional processes on organizational foundings might not persist after ecological dynamics are accounted for. For this reason, we investigate the role of government spending on welfare while accounting for intra-and inter-population dynamics.…”