"A system with greater organizational diversity has a higher probability of having in hand some form that does a reaso…"

"Natural selection, as it is actually used in evolutionary population biology, serves mainly as an optimization proces…"

"Inertial pressures prevent most organizations from radically changing strategies and structures."

"[In the early 1900s, ecologists Alfred Lotka and ] independently proposed models of populations dynamics that incorpo…"

"Hannan and Freeman examine the ecology of organizations by exploring the competition for resources and by trying to a…"

"A population ecology perspective on organization-environment relations is proposed as an alternative to the dominant …"

"Once standards of procedures and the allocation of tasks and authority become the subject of normative agreements, th…"

"Legitimacy constraints also emanate from the environment. Any legitimacy an organization has been able to generate co…"

"We argue that in order to deal with the various inertial pressures the adaptation perspective must be supplemented wi…"

"The concept of "niche," initially borrowed by biologists from early social science, plays a central role in ecologica…"