While popular platforms developed by knowledge-producing communities such as Wikipedia and Linux co-exist and compete with alternatives such as Encyclopedia Britannica and Microsoft Windows, we understand little about how such competition affects those communities. We develop a theory where...

Even when organizations compete fiercely against one another in the race to build the best-performing product, they might rely on the same central components (i.e., they might engage in joint component usage). We examine how joint component usage among competing organizations affects...

Merton often envisioned status growth as a process of stepping across a boundary between one status grade and another, more elite status grade. Such boundaries include the border between graduate school and a top academic department that young researchers try to traverse, or the frontier between...