TY - JOUR
T1 - Creating a hybrid organizational form from parental blueprints
T2 - The emergence and evolution of knowledge firms
AU - Oliver, Amalya L.
AU - Montgomery, Kathleen
PY - 2000/1
Y1 - 2000/1
N2 - Using a case study of a new biotechnology firm, we examine the formation of a new organizational form as a hybrid emerging from two 'parent' organizational forms. We focus on key internal labor processes that are selected from existing organizations and replicated in the hybrid form and argue that this inheritance process strengthens the likelihood of survival of the new form. We propose that analyzing the micro-level processes of inheritance contributes to the understanding of macro-level phenomena of organizational births and deaths, examined by population ecologists.
AB - Using a case study of a new biotechnology firm, we examine the formation of a new organizational form as a hybrid emerging from two 'parent' organizational forms. We focus on key internal labor processes that are selected from existing organizations and replicated in the hybrid form and argue that this inheritance process strengthens the likelihood of survival of the new form. We propose that analyzing the micro-level processes of inheritance contributes to the understanding of macro-level phenomena of organizational births and deaths, examined by population ecologists.
KW - Biotechnology
KW - Genealogical processes
KW - Hybrid organizational forms
KW - Knowledge firms
KW - New organizational forms
KW - Organizational evolution
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=0039772190&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/0018726700531003
DO - 10.1177/0018726700531003
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AN - SCOPUS:0039772190
SN - 0018-7267
VL - 53
SP - 33
EP - 56
JO - Human Relations
JF - Human Relations
IS - 1
ER -