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
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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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