Social Structure and Organizations.¶
Stinchcombe, A. L. (1965). Social Structure and Organizations. Handbook of Organizations.
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Primes¶
- Critical Period
- Software platforms and ecosystems: a new platform has a window for attracting developer participation, and once a competitor locks in network effects the window closes and entry becomes prohibitive; the months after an API launch shape the third-party ecosystem for years. Organisational founding: a venture's first 18–24 months disproportionately fix its cultural and technical commitments, and once headcount and surface grow, the same installation effort produces far less change — the organisational "founder effect."
This sourceOrigin of the organizational-imprinting hypothesis and the 'liability of newness': founding-period conditions leave enduring imprints on organizational and industry structure that persist despite later environmental change.
- Software platforms and ecosystems: a new platform has a window for attracting developer participation, and once a competitor locks in network effects the window closes and entry becomes prohibitive; the months after an API launch shape the third-party ecosystem for years. Organisational founding: a venture's first 18–24 months disproportionately fix its cultural and technical commitments, and once headcount and surface grow, the same installation effort produces far less change — the organisational "founder effect."
- Institution
- The tenure system in universities: Academic tenure is a rule-complex governing hiring, evaluation, dissent, and job security that constrains behavior across decades and reproduces itself despite complete faculty turnover.
This sourceRand McNally. Foundational "imprinting" argument: organizations adopt structures appropriate to their founding-era social context, and these founding-era structures persist long after the originating conditions have changed.
- The tenure system in universities: Academic tenure is a rule-complex governing hiring, evaluation, dissent, and job security that constrains behavior across decades and reproduces itself despite complete faculty turnover.
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