I&E Group External Serminar Series: Spatial density & plant survival
Serden Ozcan from Copenhagen Business School, will give a lecture on his paper ‘Spatial Density & Plant Survival: The Effect of Organizational Form’.
Abstract
Little is known about the performance of competing organizational forms within the context of co-evolutionary relationships in physical space and much less is known when one of the organization forms is community organizations such as farmer cooperatives. By utilizing the dual form population of the US bioethanol manufacturing plants (1979-2008), I address three questions: 1) Do the spatial density of different organizational forms influence the likelihood of plant mortality in the same fashion?, 2) Do spatial density effects of each form vary across different mortality events?, and 3) Are different forms affected by the spatial density of rival forms in opposite patterns? Results show that agglomeration of firm plants generates effective competitive pressures, whereas co-op plants enhance the vitality of nearby organizations. Analyses of sub-samples show that firm plants gain more than co-op plants by clustering with coop plants, whereas co-op plants survive longer than firm-plants if they site in dense concentrations of firm plants. These findings point towards a “form localized” competition and build a framework of competitive response hierarchies in diverse organizational settings.
Sandwich lunch from 13.00 to 13.30. For more information, please contact Catherine Appleton.