Market partitioning and the geometry of the resource space

This article gives a new explanation for generalist and specialist organizations' coexistance 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 o...

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Veröffentlicht in:	The American journal of sociology 1999, Vol.104 (4), p.1132-1153
Hauptverfasser:	PELI, G, NOOTEBOOM, B
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Competition Crowding Customers Ecology Economic sociology Euclidean space Geometry Individualized Instruction Market Market positioning Market segmentation Market segments Markets Newspaper industry Organization of space Organizations Organizations (Social) Packing problem Partition Product differentiation Resource Allocation Social Science Sociological theory Sociology Sociology of economy and development Spatial Analysis Spatial dimension Specialists Spheres Taste Theory Topology
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Zusammenfassung:	This article gives a new explanation for generalist and specialist organizations' coexistance 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 N-dimensional Euclidean space.
ISSN:	0002-9602 1537-5390
DOI:	10.1086/210138