An ecology of agency arrangements: mortality of savings and loan associations, 1960-1987

Administrative Science Quarterly, Sept, 1992 by Hayagreeva Rao, Eric H. Nielsen

1 We did not compute second-order terms for these densities because we were studying an established population late in its history and felt that the competitive effects of density were likely to overwhelm the legitimation effects of density (Hannan and Freeman, 1989; Carroll and Hannan, 1989).

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