Publication
Title
Market partitioning and the geometry of the resource space
Author
Abstract
This article gives a new explanation for generalist and specialist organizations' coexistence in crowded markets. It addresses organizational ecology's resource-partitioning theory, which explains market histories with scale economies and crowding, and it shows that some main predictions of this theory can be restated in terms of structural properties of the A'-dimensional Euclidean space. As resource-space dimensionality increases, the changing niche configurations open opportunities for specialists. The proposed approach draws upon the sphere-packing problem in geometry. The model also explains new observations, and its findings apply to a range of crowding and network models in sociology
Language
English
Source (journal)
American journal of sociology. - Chicago, Ill., 1895, currens
Publication
Chicago, Ill. : 1999
ISSN
0002-9602
1537-5390 [online]
DOI
10.1086/210138
Volume/pages
104 :2 (1999) , p. 1132-1153
ISI
000079887900005
Full text (Publisher's DOI)
UAntwerpen
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Affiliation
Publications with a UAntwerp address
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Web of Science
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