Audia, Pino G.; Kurkoski, Jennifer - In: Industrial and Corporate Change 21 (2012) 1, pp. 187-215
We apply the ecological concept of the organization's niche pioneered by John Freeman and Mike Hannan to the study of geographic communities. We define a community's market niche by the ties linking a community to the industries on which it depends for growth. We then hypothesize that the extent...